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seed when making a lawn. Three or 

 four bushels to the acre should be laid 

 on, and fairly covered before rolling 

 down. The small graniverous birds, 

 especially the sparrows, will be sure to 

 eat all the seed left on the surface. — 

 American Garden. 



GOLDEN QUKEN RASPBERRY. 

 The Golden Queen may be termed an 

 albino of the Cuthbert or Queen of the 

 Market, but whether a seedling or a 

 so-called " sport " I am unable to state, 

 as it was discovered growing in a patch 

 of twelve acres of that variety in the 

 summer of 1882, on my farm in Camden 

 County, New Jersey. I was at once 

 forcibly impressed with its merit from 

 its vigorous growth, large size and 

 beauty — on picking a few of the berries 

 and tasting them, it is putting it mildly 

 to say I was delighted. Since the day 

 it was found 1 have employed every 

 means of testing the variety with the 

 object of determining fully its charac- 

 ter ; and from my experience with it I 

 think it may be fittingly described as a 

 variety of six cardinal virtues, viz.: 1. 

 In flavor it rivals (some have pro- 

 nounced it superior to) that venerable 

 and highest in quality of all raspberries, 

 the *' Brinckle's Orange." 2. In beauty 

 it transcends all other raspberries I have 

 ever seen, being of a rich, bright creamy- 

 yellow, imparting to it a most appetizing 

 effect, both in the crate and upon the 

 table. 3. In size it challenges the large 

 Cuthbert. 4. In vigor it fully equals 

 its parent — the canes attaining the 

 dimensions of the Cuthbert or Queen, 

 noted for its strong growth — and resists 

 heat and drought even better. 5. In 

 productiveness it excels the prolific 

 Cuthbert. 6. In hardiness it has no 

 superior. The past unprecedently severe 

 winter several rows of it stood wholly 

 unprotected at one side of a large field 

 of the Cuthbert, all of which were so 

 badly killed by the cold that I was 



compelled to mow them all to the 

 ground, yet not a branch of the Golden 

 Queen was injured. In addition to the 

 foregoing, which is of less interest to 

 the grower for the family supply, but 

 of paramount importance to the grower 

 for market, the berry is so firm that 

 when pressed out of shape, it will, when 

 turned out of the basket, resume its 

 true form and not loose any of its juice, 

 or, as is termed by fruitmen, " will not 

 bleed ;" also, if allowed to become over- 

 ripe on the bush, it will not, as is usually 

 the case with raspberries, drop to the 

 ground as soon as the bush is disturbed, 

 but retains a firm hold upon the stem. 

 " What are its faults ?" some one will 

 ask. It would indeed be a novel fruit 

 without any. And it doubtless possesses 

 some. Yet I must say they have yet 

 to be manifested, unless it would be 

 desirable to have it ripen earlier. Its 

 season is that of its parent. — Ezra 

 Stokes, in Orchard and Garden. 



THE LONGFIELD APPLE. 

 Prof. Budd : " There is one variety 

 of Russian apples which has been 

 fruited almost across the continent, 

 which has exhibited many desirable 

 peculiarities for places where something 

 hardier than Fameuse is needed. The 

 name, as nearly as I can give it to you 

 in English, is " Longfield." The Rus- 

 sian name is " Longerfeldskoe.'' Dur- 

 ing the last three years it has been 

 loaded with fruit with me, making an 

 annual growth of 12 to 14 inches while 

 thus bearing. It is longer than the 

 Jonathan, about the weight of an ordi- 

 nary Missouri Janet ; yellow, with a 

 blush nearly equal to that on Maiden's 

 Blush ; keeps through the winter at the 

 north. It has been extensively tried, 

 and I think it should now have more 

 general notice. The quality is quite as 

 good as that of Fameuse, which it re- 

 sembles in texture. I do not, however, 

 consider it among the hardiest of Rus- 



