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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 



nicely nearly a month earlier in the 

 open ground in dry sand without water 

 or shade, they were shorter in the 

 stems and the flowers got a little burnt 

 with the sun. I am trying another of 

 the pink ones, Cypripedium acaule, 

 which I found here in the woods. I 

 lost the cardinal flower, which I grew 

 about the same length of time, in mov- 

 ing. I intend giving them a suitable 

 location this fall but they seem to stand 

 as much hardship as mo^t plants taken 

 up when in bloom, but their great 

 beauty amply repays for any little 

 trouble. I have planted a number of 

 the diSerent honeysuckles found here, 

 and the magnolias that have been in 

 bloom for more than a month. 



Samuel Hunter. 

 Hartly, Delaware, U.S., June 22, 1886. 



GOLDEN QUEEN RASPBERRY. 



Mr. Lovett writes as follows con- 

 cerning this new raspberry : — 



Dear Sir, — Wish you could come 

 and see Golden Queen Raspberry, now 

 ripening. It goes way ahead of all 

 things raspberry that I have seen. 

 Larger than Shafier's Colossal ; as pro- 

 ductive, and almost, or quite, as strong 

 a grower. As beautiful as a May 

 morning, and the flavor simply grand. 

 Think it will keep in good shape for 

 nearly a week yet. 



Yours truly, 



Jno. T. Lovett. 



This raspberry was found in a twelve 

 acre block of Cuthbert in 1882. Mr. 

 Lovett says that in flavor it rivals the 

 high quality of Brinckle's Orange ; that 

 the color is a bright, creamy yellow ; 

 in size equal to the Cuthbert, and like- 

 wise in vigor of plant and productive- 

 ness, and that in hardiness it has no 

 superior. It ripens at the same time 

 as the Cuthbert. 



THE PLUM CURCULIO. 



BY B. GOTT. 



The following item will serve to show 

 the character of much of the teaching 

 given by superficial experimenters : — 



''There is no use in trying to poison 

 the curculio by spraying plum trees^ 

 with water containing Paris green or 

 London purple. The little pest, which 

 makes its crescent-shaped incisions in 

 the plum, does not do it by eating in, 

 but only stings the fruit. As it never 

 eats in its perfect form, no poison can 

 afiect it. But if sheets are spread under 

 the trees and the latter jarred, the cur- 

 culio will drop ofi" and can be easily 

 caught and destroyed." 



It may be true that there can be but 

 very little urged against the practice of 

 jarriiig the trees to capture the plum 

 curculio, save that people, as a general 

 thing, will not do it so as to be success- 

 ful. In the first place they do not 

 understand the time to jar, and so much 

 of the mischief is done before they are 

 aware that anything is the matter with 

 their plums. Again, they will not 

 practice jarring sufficiently frequent to 

 save their plums. They may perhaps 

 try this jarring once or twice sometime 

 during the early stages of the fruit, and 

 when the last plum has fallen off" they 

 are taken with a sudden fit of wonder 

 at the mysterious providence that has 

 not left them a tasting sample, notwith- 

 standing their great eflfort to save them. 

 Jarring, to be really serviceable, must 

 be commenced as early as the truit is 

 set, and be closely followed up every 

 day, or even twice a day, for at least 

 three or four weeks, or as long as 

 another curculio can be captured. This 

 involves work, but nothing less than 

 this is the price of plums. 



To say that there is no use in spray- 

 ing the trees with Paris green is not, 

 according to my experience this sum- 

 mer, strictly true. I concluded to try 

 it to find out how it would work. The 



