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with ashes or stable yard manure. Ten other phim trees I have which 

 each exhibited about a peck of plums early in June of this year, and 

 which were of course at the mercy of the Curculio unhindered. I 

 contrived a plan by which the atmosphere was rendered disagreeable. 

 In the centre of one of the trees I placed an earthenware dish full of 

 coal oil, which gave the impression that an &il refinery was in the 

 immediate vicinity. Of the fruit of this tree 1 lost about ten plums, 

 four or five of which only bore the characteristic mark of the Turk. 

 Three-fourths of the fruit of the remaining trees was destroyed by his 

 ravages. I seek not to establish any relation between a cause and an 

 effect, merely mentioning a fact to which many persons can bear 

 testimony, in the hope that the subject may be more fully investigated, 

 and the value of coal oil as an ally in harticulture be mare thoroughly 

 tested. 



The Clapp's Favorite- pear tree was all that could be desired. In 

 this instance also the Association sent me two specimens. Both 

 attained a height of ten feet and then succumbed to the dread fire — 

 blight. The raspberry never grew. The strawberry distributed by the 

 Association, which I took to be Arnold's Seedling, succeeds admirably 

 in clay ground. The fruit, which is liberally displayed, attains a great 

 size. In appearance, a cross between the Triomphe and Col.. Clueney. 

 The flavor, however, is certainly not equal to that of the Triomph«^ 

 than which no better strawberry, in my opinion, can be planted in ricli 

 clay soil. The other plants distributed I did not get. 



THE FIG AGAIN. 



BY G. F.. NEEDHAM, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Had friend Bucke acquired experience in laying down the fig tree 

 as per instructions in my paper, his fears that they are too tender and 

 brittle would be "like the baseless fabric of a vision." 



However, I am glad that he has called the attention of your readers 

 to this delicious fruit, and I hope that the matter will be kept before 

 the people until all shall hear the good news, that they can grow the 

 fig in your delightful climate as well as they can at the south, and 

 with far greater success than they can in England. Speaking of 

 England, by the way, a correspondent has just sent me a leaf from the 



