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holes in the ground an inch and over in depth. I would like to send you one by 

 mail as a " specimen copy," but I am afraid it would run off before it reached 

 you. 



In my next — perhaps in time for the July number — I will try to give a more 

 general view of the' extent and amount of the damages, which have, I think, 

 been general ; and the townfolks can just make up their minds to be compelled 

 to pay a good round price for their peaches for " doin' up." 



David Z. Evans, Jr. 

 "Cecil Fruit and Truck Farm," Chesapeake City, Md., May lo, 1S70." 



Specialties for Nurserymen. — We do not doubt that the necessities of 

 the case will soon bring about the division of the nursery business spoken of 

 by a correspondent in the May number of the Journal. In England there 

 have long been nurserymen who have devoted themselves to the business of 

 raising stocks for fruit trees ; and the tendency of things in this country is 

 shown by such establishments as Messrs. Robert Douglas & Sous, at Wauke- 

 gan. 111., who grow annually from seed from three to five million evergreens, 

 one to two million apple seedlings, half a million to a million pear seedlings, and 

 a hundred thousand mountain-ash seedlings, besides smaller items. Most 

 surely every part of this work, from the procuring the seed, through sowing, 

 shading, weeding, etc., to the final packing and shipment, can be better done, 

 than if the same care were divided among a hundred different objects, though 

 they should occupy no more ground. 



Will the Curculio deposit in Fruit which overhangs Water? — At 

 the meeting of the Pomological Society in Philadelphia, Dr. Underhill, the well- 

 known grape grower at Croton Point, N. Y., asserted that the fruit on his plum 

 trees, planted so as to lean over the water, was never stung by the curculio. In 

 the February number of the American Entomologist, Dr. Trimble takes up this 

 subject, and proves conclusively that trees overhanging the water have their fruit 

 just as badly marked by the curculio as those where its ravages are most extensive. 



The Corn-packing Business in Maine is getting to be immense ; and though 

 it is principally done in Cumberland County, there are branch establishments 

 at various other points. One factory in this county put up over twenty thousand 

 cans per day in the best of the season. 



Strawberries. — The San Francisco markets received, about the first of 

 May, six thousand pounds of strawbisrries daily, and they sold at from ten to 

 fifteen cents per pound. 



