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this is a serious danger, the small tiles may 

 be encased in a larger size, so that inside 

 and outside joints alternate. The collars 

 alone are in a measure a preventive. Where 

 said methods are not employed, the trees 

 may be given a thorough root pruning once 

 a year. Vermin often finds its way into 

 the drains, and can only be removed by 

 taking them up. 



PiiEsiPEXT's Address. President David 

 Baird in his annual address calls attention 

 to the continued low scale of 

 prices for all fruits, and wants 

 the society to find remedies if 

 possible. The influence of stock 

 upon cion and I'icc vcrmx is yet 

 a subject for investigation. The 

 privileges of a good garden and 

 fruit patch, of lawn, shrubbery, 

 flowers and plenty of good read- 

 ing, are named as contracting 

 influences to wayward tenden- 

 cies in the young. The society, 

 he says, can do much good in 

 throwing its influence against 

 the practice of nurserymen, etc., 

 of introducing worthies novel- 

 ties, or old things under new 

 names. Spraying fruit trees 

 with arsenical poisons, best 

 methods and results, is recom- 

 mended as a subject for discus- 

 sion at the meeting. 



Mr. J. B. Rogers, commenting 

 on the address, says that in- 

 sects have injured the Apple 

 crop in recent years at the rate 

 of .*1 a barrel. This is the opin- 

 ion of expert Apple dealers. 

 Better Apples are now coming 

 from Western New York, and 

 the reason of it is, that the 

 growers there spray their trees. 



More ox Drainage.— Mr. 

 Boynton tells us that soft-burnt 

 tUe is by no means the best, as 

 is often supposed. Collars over 

 the joints are a good thing, and heavy as- 

 phalt or tarred building paper rapped 

 around the joints is next best. The main 

 should be laid with especial care, as any ob- 

 struction in It would make the whole sys- 

 tem ineffective. To facilitate inspection of 

 the main when needed, basins or wells 

 should be sunk every 200 feet along the 

 main. These extend somewhat below the 

 line of tiles, and the heighth of water in the 

 bottom indicates where the drain is in 

 working order, and where it is not. 

 (To be Continued.) 



Mezeron Pink, April; Golden Bell(Foc.s!/»i(ii) 

 May; Japan Quince, May; Flowering Plums 

 May; Flowering Almonds, May; Lilacs, 

 May; Viburnums, May and June; Honey- 

 suckles, May; Mock (Grange, June; Snow- 

 balls, .lune; Deutzins, June; Weigelas,.Iune; 

 Clethra, July; Spiraeas, May to September; 

 Hydrangeas, August to October; Altheas, 

 (Rose of Sharon) August and September; 

 Purple Fringe, July to September. In the 

 margins of the various shmb-groupa, there 



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Improving the Home Surroundings. 



A subscriber from the State of Massa- 

 chusetts sends to this office a sketch of his 

 home grounds size 100x100 feet with the 

 request for some suggestions on arranging 

 the same. With the few particulars at our 

 command we have indicated how the vari- 

 ous features which should contribute to a 

 pleasant home garden might be arranged. 



The main idea of this plan is to have the 

 home immediately surrounded with a grass 

 plat embellished with trees, shrubs, and 

 flowering plants, with the garden and fruit 

 patch beyond the lawn to the rear and side. 

 On each side of the front walk at the entrance 

 from the street it is suggested that an 

 irregular clump of flowering shrubs be 

 placed and another one at the left-hand side 

 of the front lawn near the street, and yet 

 another and larger one to the side of the 

 house in the direction of the small fruit 

 plat. The free use of shrubs is recommend- 

 ed for the reason that no class of embellish- 

 ments is more satisfactory on the home lawn. 

 Take a limited selection embracing the 

 kinds which follow and they will yield a 

 succession of bloom from April until Octo- 

 ber, and once planted they are permanent. 



ARRANGING A HOME PLAT, SIZE 100 BY 100 FEET. 



may be set numerous hardy and other flow- 

 ering plants also. 

 I Besides the shrubs a few ornamental 

 '' trees may beset over the lawTi, as indicated, 

 including the evergreens to the north of 

 the rear part of the house. A few Apple 

 or other fruit trees could also be employed 

 in the rear lawn and at the end of the veget- 

 able garden. 



Ohio State Horticultural Society. 



(Condensed report of Twenty-third Annual Meeting 

 held at Columbus, December nth to Vith, 1389.) 



Prof. Weed read a very instructive paper 

 on remedies and preventives for injury by 

 insects and fungi. 



This year's results in spraying Plums and 

 Cherry trees with London purple to prevent 

 damage by curculio confirmed the opinion 

 expressed last year that it was effectual if 

 thoroughly done. On sprayed trees only 

 '22 8-10 per cent, on trees not sprayed 56 per 

 cent of its fruit was injured; 63,500 Cher- 

 ries were examined in the various tests. 



He used one ounce purple to ten gallons 

 of water, but thought a weaker solution 

 might be equally effective. (B. F. Albaugh 

 reported native Plums and Peach trees 

 injured by a solution of this strength). 

 These two classes of trees were said to be 

 more susceptible to damage by spraying 

 than other trees. European Plum trees 

 sprayed with the solution of purple with 

 the addition of the Bordeaux mixture to 

 prevent rot, bore an enormous crop but the 

 Bordeaux mixture adhered to the Plums at 

 picking time and had to be removed by 

 washing in a weak solution of vinegar and 

 water. Eau Celestes would probably answer 

 as well as the Bordeau mixture and not 

 adhere to the fruit so long. Three or four 

 weeks should intervene between spraying 

 with arsenites and the use of the fruit. 



The Cherry tree slug might be destroyed 

 by spraying with London purple, Pyre- 

 thrums or Helibore. 



Among a great number of remedies for 

 damage by the Cucumber beetle covering 

 the plants with a thin gauze was found to 

 be the most efficient. 



The only known preventive for the Straw- 

 berry root louse which has appeared around 

 Columbus, was in rotation not fertilizing 

 the patch only one year, and avoiding set- 

 ting plants from infected fields. 

 The French mixtures (Bor- 

 deaux and Eau Celeste) were 

 said to be as effectual in com- 

 batting fungi as the arsenites 

 were in destroying Insects. The 

 copper mixture would also pre- 

 vent leaf spot on the Quince, 

 (not Apple scab), and were bene- 

 ficial in preventing Potato rot 

 and blight. Mr. Weed, contrary 

 to the general opinion,had found 

 London purple when procured 

 in unbroken packages direct 

 from the manufactures very 

 uniform in strength, 



Mr. Harrison of Painesville 

 related an instance where a cow 

 was poisoned by pasturing in 

 an orchard immediately after 

 spraying. N. H. Albaugh spoke 

 of several cases which seemed 

 to prove that ordinarily there 

 was little or no danger owing 

 to the very small amount of 

 poison which would fall upon 

 the grass. M. T. Thompson had 

 found Tobacco dust effective 

 for the flea bealte. 



Novelties, worthless and other- 

 wise. Prof. Green spoke of the 

 E^'x work of the experiment stations, 

 fj -^and expressed the hope that the 

 "^.S^time would come when the 

 public could be protected from 

 the introducors of novelties 

 new varieties or old varieties under new 

 names, and the originator of varieties really 

 valuable receive a just reward. 



Baspberries. Gregg stUl stands at the 

 head as the best late berry where successful 

 Palms was highly praised by all who had 

 tested it as the best early blackcap. It is 

 no earlier than Doolittle, Tyler,or Souhegan 

 but ripens the bulk of its crop earlier, and 

 is larger and more productive. Hilboro 

 was considered the best second early. Ada 

 was doing remarkably well with some and 

 disappointing others. Washington was 

 said by M. Crawford to be of the same class 

 as Shaffer's, but hardier, more productive, 

 firmer and of better quality, but not quite 

 as large. Marlboro was recommended for 

 family use but not for market. Summer 

 pruning of its red varieties was not advised. 

 Blackberries and red Raspberries might be 

 planted in the fall but not the Blackcaps. 



Blackberries. Erie was about as hardy as 

 Kittatinny, had withstood 13° below zero. 

 N. Omer said cultivate thoroughly until 

 the fmlt was gathered then stop to allow 

 the wood to ripen. By this means he had 

 been able to grow the Kittatinny safely. 

 Snyder the most satisfactory generally. 



Constructing Under Drains. 



MUd weather during .January often gives 

 us a fair chance to resume or continue 

 ditching, and where ditches are needed, no 

 opportunity to construct them should be 

 allowed to pass unimproved. President W. 

 I. Chamberlain makes some excellent sug- 

 gestions concerning the construction of 

 under-drains in Coimtry Gentleman. 



The Grade. — The mains he says should 

 follow the natural depressions where the 

 water runs ofiE upon the surface in wet times. 



