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S. P., Paddock's Grove. — The plant known as " African Gold Dust," is the 

 Aiicttba japonica. Here it is a green-house plant, but at Washington it stands 

 the winters with a little protection, and south of that it is quite hardy. You can 

 obtain it from any nurseryman who has an assortment of green-house plants. 

 The foliage, blotched with yellow, is very ornamental, and so are the red berries ; 

 but the plant is dioecious, and to produce fruit you must have a pair of plants — 

 a pistillate and a staminate. 



The Fruit Prospects at Alton, Illinois, is good for all except peaches, 

 of which there will be a light crop. The frost of April 23 did much damage to 

 strawberries and grapes in some sections of the West. F. S. 



May 4, 1S71. 189 



