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Nems ha Raspberry. Prof. 



' Tnjiip.at last meetiug of 

 Indiana horticulturists, pro- 

 nounced it the equal of 

 Gregg' in e\ery respect. 



Michigan Horticnltural 

 Society. At the recent meet- 

 ing the following officers 

 were elected for 1890. President, T. T. Lyon, 

 South Haven; Secretary, Edwy C. Keid, Allegan; 

 Treasurer, Sherman M. Pearsall. 



Hill's Chili Peach. Members of the Washte- 

 naw Pomological Societj' stated at a recent 

 meeting that Hill's Chill has proved a failure for 

 several years, Mr. Baldwin said it should be 

 planted on the richest soil. 



Fmnin^ Trees. Keep all tramps out of the 

 orchard that are around after jobs of pruning. 

 Let no man prune in your orchard without you 

 know he is a skillful hand at the business. — Mr. 

 SchvUz, before the Miswuri State Hoii. Snciety. 



Shipping Qreen Frnit. Mr. Manville, chief of 

 the literary department of the Florida Fruit Ex- 

 change, estimates that the loss to the Orange 

 growers of Florida this season, directly attributed 

 to careless packing of the fruit, will be in the 

 neighborhood of $350,000. 



Indiana State Horticaltnral Society. The 

 officei-s for 1800 elected at the last anuual meeting 

 are as follows: President, Joseph Katliffe, Rich- 

 mond; 1st Vice-President, .Joseph Burton, Mitch- 

 ell: Secretary, C. M. Hobbs, Bridgeport; Treas- 

 urer, Daniel Cox, Cartersburg. 



Missonri Horticulturists. The following oflS- 

 cers were elected for 1890 at the last meeting of 

 the state society by acclamation: President, J. 

 *:. Evans, Harlem; Vice-President, N. F. Murray, 

 Oregon; Secretary, L. A. Goodman, Westport; 

 Treasurer. D. S. Holman, Springfield. All were 

 re-elected. 



Section of Pomoloey at Washington. The 

 Michigan horticulturists are not satisfied with 

 the achievements of the Bureau of Pomology in 

 Washington as at present managed, and at the 

 meeting in Hart adopted a resolution expressive 

 of the demand for speedy change in its general 

 management. 



Selection of Peach Varieties. The Hardin Co. 

 (Ky.) Horticultural Society selected the follow- 

 ing as best for their soil: 1 — Asmden's June; 2 — 

 Early Rivers; 3— Crawford's Early, 4 -Crawford's 

 Late; 5 -Stump the World; 6— Mountam Rose; 

 7— Old Mixon Free; 8— Salway; 9— Smocks Free; 

 10— Bilyeuc's Late. 



Hannre for Grapes. Mr. A. Cay wood, of Ulster 

 Co., N. Y., was called upon at a recent meeting 

 to give his experience with manures on vines. 

 He said that he uses all kinds of raanui-e that he 

 can afford to buy. He likes stable manure to 

 get a growth of vine, and afterwards uses more 

 commercial fertilizers. 



No Hannre, No Onions. On my Onions I have 

 always put some stable manure, but this year I 

 put nothing on them. 1 thought it might do with- 

 out for one year, and the consequence was I had 

 about half a crop. With a little help of our 

 maggot*; I managed to lf)5e S'^-tO.— il/r. Joh)ison 

 hefiirc the Farmerx'' Meetinu in Broctnn, Masn. 



Sslection of Plums. For orchard planting J 

 would choose the following, named in the order 

 of ripening: Washington, Bradshaw, D':ane's 

 Purple, Prince Engelbert. Union Purple, Lom- 

 bard, Oueii, Quackenbos.=, Purple Egg, Coe's 

 Golden Drop. Reine Claude. Shropshire.— Mr. 

 Gebharil Iiefore tlit Miehiyan Hort. Society. 



re'dini; Little and Often. If we use all fish 

 scraps, it would be ,iust as well to put the fer- 

 tilizer all on at the beginning of the season; but 

 it is very much better even on those soils that are 

 all right by themselves, to feed the plants a little 

 through the season, rather than to give it all at 

 one time, especially if the fertilizer contains anj- 

 of the soluble salts.— IT'»). H. liowher. hcfmr the 

 Farmers^ Meetinu in Uti>iton. 



American Horticultural Society. The ninth 

 regular meeting of the American Horticultural 

 Society will convene in Austin.Texas, on Monday, 

 the 17th day of February, LSOO. Members of the 

 Society and horticulturists generally are invited 

 to this important meeting, which promises to 

 equal the great California meeting of two years 

 ago in its results. The .Secretary will take pleasure 



in giving all needful information concerning this 

 meeting to those applying by letter.— TT. B 

 ttanan, Seeretary, Greenccuitk, Iml. 



Seed and Fruit. Good fruit is more or less 

 dependent on good seed. In the production of 

 Apple seeds, the essential proper diversity in 

 character of the parents is best obtained by 

 affording nature the greatest opportunity for 

 perfect fertilization by the use of pollen from 

 different varieties. Trees so situated as not to 

 receive pollen from other varieties will not 

 mature good fruit under conditions as adverse 

 as will trees that do receive pollen from others — 

 F. J. Mann, before the TUinoin Hort. Society. 



manure Pays at Some Time. The food that is 

 not consumed one year will be used the next. 

 The handsomest field of Corn that 1 ever saw 

 stand, even in Arlington, I raised on a high-grade 

 complete fertilizer, planted with a horse machine. 

 The leaves were all green. They went way down 

 to the ground. Other Corn stood as high, but 

 the leaves did not go to the ground. Manure 

 should be composted that the crop can take hold 

 with the fertilizers. I must give my testimony 

 enterely in favor of fertilizers.— Mr. Johnson. 



American Association of Nurserymen. At the 

 last meeting, in Chicago, it was decided to hold 

 the next meeting, first Wednesday in June, in 

 New Y'ork City or vicinity. The executive com- 

 mittee now propose to hold it at the ParkA venue 

 Hotel, on Fourth avenue, between 3;M and 33d 

 streets, nine blocks south of the Grand Central 

 Depot The hall has a seating capacity of 700, 

 and is said to be one of the quietest rooms in the 

 city. Price of board and rooms will be reduced 

 to i3.00 a day. Members who think they have a 

 better place to suggest are asked to communicate 

 with the secretary of the Association, Chas. A 

 Green, Rochester,N. Y. 



Apple Scab. Prof, Goff, before the Wisconsin 

 Farmere' Institute, said the best preventive as 

 yet known for Apple scab is ammoniacal carbon- 

 ate of copper;one ounce carbonate of copper dis- 

 solved in one quart of ammonia, diluted with 90 

 parts of water, and spraying the tree and fruit 

 with it before the scab is too far advanced. The 

 disease seldom appears in young, vigorous or- 

 chards, but is a source of much trouble in old 

 thickly grown trees. The microscopic spores 

 which produce scab are more susceptible to 

 growth in a damp atmosphere than in dry, hence 

 there is more danger from it in thick-growing 

 trees where the sun has not an opportunity to 

 dry out the dews and rain. 



Adaptation of Fruits. .\ new fruit may be 

 introduced with high commendation by the 

 originator, and the most flattering testimonials 

 from his neighbors. Planted in other localities 

 by enthusiastic amateurs and commercial grow- 

 ers, it may be found unsuccessful. It is there- 

 fore pronounced a fraud and its introducer a 

 humbug or a swindler. Yet it is quite possible 

 that all was said of it was true, in the locality 

 where it originated, and under the treatment it 

 received, the failure having occurred from an 

 uncongenial soil and location, or from improper 

 treatment. The important part of horticultural 

 knowledge is to be understood what fruits are 

 best adapted to our different soils and localities. 

 Prom Geo. W. Campbell's Address to the Ohio 

 atate Hort. Society. 



Effects of Spraying; Birds, etc. One pound 

 of London purple to 100 gallons <?i of water is 

 found to be the most effective, and at the same 

 time of the least injury to the trees. Spraying 

 with clear water alone in the hot boiling sun will 

 scald the leaves; therefore spraying with insecti- 

 cides should always be accompanied with the 

 best of judgment and care, and never when 

 hot sun poure down upon the trees after 

 spraying. Spray early for the canker worm. 

 Insecticides do not destroy the birds, or effect 

 the poultry or other stock, except bees. Always 

 spray with the wind. Kerosine is good for the 

 destruction of the tree cricket. Encourage the 

 friendly birds by hanging hundreds of gourd 

 nests in the orchards. Never destroy the blue- 

 birds, pewees, kingbirds, woodpeckers, swallows, 

 and many other friendly birds, which while some 

 of them may damage a little fruit, they far moj-e 

 than compensate by the wholesale destruction of 

 our insect enemies. 



Blackberry and Baspberry Varieties. P. A. 

 Vandenburg, ga\cthe follow inga.'^ his experience 

 in Jersey county. Of Blackberries he grows only 

 Snyder for main crop; is early, hardy and pro- 

 ductive. Trim closely; leave berries on bushes 

 until ripe. Taylor and Early Harvest not hardy 

 with him. Kittatinny rusts badly and winter- 



kills. Of Raspberries for a home market Turner 

 or Thornless cannot be beaten; hardy, rank 

 grower and immensely productive. Hansen is 

 the earliest red, bears a long time, is hardy, a 

 moderate grower and good shipper. Brandywine 

 about the same. Cuthbert is rightly named the 

 "Queen of the Market:" rank grower, berry 

 large and the best shipper of the reds. Has not 

 found Marlboro profitable, though one of the 

 finest reds; same of Crimson Beauty Golden 

 Queen has done well, but has not been tested in 

 market; it can grow suckers as prolific as Turner 

 and as rank as its parent. Suhegan or Tyler 

 leads the blackcaps; has no equal for profit, pro- 

 ductiveness or hardiness. Hopkins comes next 

 in value, though not so early: Ohio next Grows 

 Gregg only to lengthen the season, not perfectly 

 hardy —III. State Hint Society. 



Management of Blackberries. Mr. N. Ohmer 

 at a horticultural meeting in Indiana, gave the 

 following as the result of long and extensive 

 experience: When the bushes have grown to 

 about three feet high, and early in the season, 

 the laterals are clipped back not to exceed eight 

 or ten inches. This will reduce the berries in 

 number, but they will be so much larger as to 

 bring more money in market. This remark ap- 

 plies to the Snyder, and Mr, Ohmer said there 

 was more money in that berry than in any other 

 he had ever tried. Every bud where the bush is 

 cut back will produce a large cluster of berries. 

 Without this treatment you will have only small 

 ones. He had a good crop at the same time that 

 the berries of other persons were dried up. Both 

 cutting back and frequent cultivation between 

 the rows are necessary. The bushes should not 

 be allowed to grow more than three feet high, 

 and be cut back early in the season. The rows 

 are eight feet apart, and the bushes four feet in 

 the rows. The canes are so full of fruit that 

 "you can hardly get through for the berries." 

 He has a sharp five-blade tool, which cuts all the 

 sprouts out of the way and gives clean ground. 



A New Fruit— The Japanese Candle- 

 berry Myrtle. 

 At the last meeting of the California Hor- 

 ticultuial Society, Mr. H. H. Berger, well 

 known as an importer of Japanese product.s, 

 e.xhlbited samples of the fruit of Myrlca 

 rubra in alcohol, giving the following de- 

 scription of it: 



This evergreen fruit-bearing tree, indigenous 

 to Japan, has only lately attracted the attention 

 of botanists. It is a native of the southern parts 

 of Japan, attains a height of forty to fifty feet, 

 a diameter of two and one-half to three feet. 

 The foliage, which is evergreen, resembles the 

 Magnolias and is of a firm, leathery texture. The 

 fruit blossom appears early in spring, and the 

 fruit ripens during the month of July. It re- 

 sembles in shape a firm Blackberry, an inch long 

 by three-fourths of an inch in diameter. It con- 

 tains a single seed stone of light weight. There 

 are two varieties of this fruit The one is a dark 

 red, almost black, the other a light rose, which 

 is superior even in Havor to the dark. The fruit 

 is highly flavored, vinous and sweet, and answers 

 all purposes our Blackberry is put to. It is deli- 

 cious as a desert fruit, makes a tine preserve, 

 jelly or jam. 



The juice extracted from it may be taken as a 

 refreshing beverage in its fresh state and after 

 being allowed to ferment produces a fine «ine. 

 set with alcohol, a brandy is gained from it equal 

 to our famous Blackberry Brandy. The tree it- 

 self is highly ornamental, the bark is useful for 

 dyeing a fawn color, and the timber is used in 

 Japan for the most elegant cabinetware, having 

 a finer mottled grain than the Bird's-eye Maple. 

 The wood is light, tough and very durable. The 

 tree is perfectly hardy in all latitudes where 

 the thermometer will not fall below 15° above 

 zero. It would succeed admirably throughout 

 California, Texas, Mexico, and all the Southern 

 States of the Union. 



The propagation of this useful tree is best car- 

 ried on from seed, to which it comes true, or by 

 grafting scions from a fruit-bearing tree on seed- 

 lings, which thus will come in bearing in a couple 

 of years. The seed ought to be sown in leaf- 

 mold, and loamy soil with bottom heat if obtain- 

 able. The same ought to be kept well shaded 

 and mulched. 



The seed is light and ripens during July and 

 August. Plants ax*e not to be obtained as yet, 

 as the Japanese have never propagated the tree 

 beyond the chance seedlings. There is no doubt 

 that this tree would be a most valuable acquisi- 

 tion for California. 



