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(185. Evaporated Fruit. It is too early to get 

 at the coming evai)orated crop. The Peaches 

 are not boxed yet, and Apples are many of them 

 at this writing yet <in the trees.— C. W. Ideli.. 



969. Black CnrrantB. These will thrive and 

 hear well ou any good soil. Lee's Black Prolific 

 is one of the best varieties. They require no 

 special treatment other than clean culture and 

 occasii>nal thinning out. Plant in spring or fall 

 in rows seven feet apart and in the row four 

 feet apart.— E. S. Goff. 



!I44. Climbine Hydrangeas. To cultivate 

 these successfully, plant close to the trunks of 

 large trees, and if at all possible, in a deep well 

 enriched soil. While small, water thoroughly 

 during hot dry weather, also mulcli \\ ell and keep 

 the base of the plant free from grass. They can 

 be procured of most nurserymen. 



991. Oxalis without Bnlbs. Yes, lots of them; 

 several ornamental species are only annual and 

 and have no need of bulbs. Again the purple- 

 leaved Sorrel now so much used for bedding pur- 

 poses multiplies itself from seeds and runners 

 and not from an increase of bulbs.— W. F. 



993. Hemerocalis Varieties. They are three 

 distinct species. Be careful about A. flava and 

 A. graminea as they look very much alike to a 

 casual observer. Both have long narrow leaves 

 and yellow tiowers, but flava is about done 

 blooming before graminea begins to blossom.— 

 Wm. Falconer. 



983. Lettace Hotting. An e.xcess of water or 

 e.xcess of any other condition causes Lettuce to 

 become subject to rot. The only remedy seems 

 to be to control all conditions of moisture, tem- 

 perature, ventilation, etc., so as to preserve per- 

 fect healthfulness. Lettuce likes moist soil, but 

 soggyness should be rigidly avoided, and is 

 worse than rather dry, especially in winter. A 

 good rule is to water only when the surface of 

 soil shows dryness, which may not be tor weeks 

 or months during Nov. Dec, and Jan. Although 

 care should be exercised that the lower part of 

 soil does not become dust dry from bottom heat, 

 before the surface shows dryness. Excess of 

 warmth without sutflcient \entilation, and ex- 

 cess of cold especially if allowed to freeze, so as 

 to check grovvth and vigor, are probably the 

 most prolific causes of this difliculty of the 

 Lettuce grower.— D. N. Long. 



978. Pear Blight or Enst. The fruit was prob- 

 ably affected with a fungus allied to or identical 

 with "Apple scab," which was very injvn-ious to 

 Pears in Ohio this year. For an excellent ac- 

 count of it see the Report TT. S. Uipartment of 

 Agriculture, 1887, page 341.— C. M. W., UMo Ex- 

 perimetit Station. 



970. Black Lice Injorions to Chrysanthe- 

 mams. They can be destroyed by spraying 

 with a decoction of Tobacco and soap. Do not 

 use too strong a solution. There are several dif- 

 ferent brands of potash soap on the market that 

 are good for this purpose, and directions for use 

 are given with them.— J. O. A. 



946. Glass or Canvas for Hot-beds. I raise a 

 good many thousand Cabbage, Tomato, Sweet 

 Potato and flowering plants, and have only two 

 glass sash, all the others are covered with muslin. 

 I commence sowing seed in February and con- 

 tinue sowing at intervals until warm enough to 

 sow in the open ground in the spring. To have 

 Dice stocky plants under muslin the soil should 

 be within three inches of the cloth. Sow in 

 drills three inchesapart and transplant into other 

 frames when the fourth leaf forms, setting the 

 plants in rows three inches ai>art and two inches 

 apart in the row: as they become crowded trans- 

 plant again into a cold frame, setting the 

 plants three inches apart each way, and harden 

 as soon as the weather will admit. The muslin 

 on the first frames is oiled with linseed oil, and 

 the later ones as it gets warmer,are covered with 

 cloth unoiled. Last year I grew several thousand 

 heads of Lettuce under muslin covered sash, and 

 I never saw finer Lettuce grown under glass.— 

 A. L. H., I'Aa, Kas. 



1037. Everbearing Baspberry. While I could 

 not undertake to name the variety from the 

 given data, j et I may say that the description 

 reminds me of Belle d'Fontenay, Henrietta, etc. 

 It is probably a seedling of some of our native 

 species which are widely disseminated. Possibly 

 it may be a valuable addition to our class of au- 

 tumn or so-called Everbearing varieties— if fruits 

 of this class out of seasfm ma.vbe called valuable; 

 I should set more v'ulue on the summer croyt. 

 The foliage seems good, and it may be especially 

 valuable in Colorado. It is not uncommon for 

 many of our varieties, both black and red, to 

 show fruit on canes of the present season's 

 growth, but the profit of a fall crop of this fruit 

 IS questionable.— E. Williams. 



805. Bemoval of Large Limbs, (a) No special 

 rule can be laid down as to safety in this matter, 

 except that one should never cut off a larger 

 branch than is absolutelj' necessary, (b) Just 

 before growth begins in spring, (c) White lead 

 thickly appUed to the cut surface is excellent, as 

 also is melted grafting wax and shellac varnish. 

 — Kemle, Newport Co., R. I. 



KTO. Babbits Injuring Trees. Metal iirot<>e- 

 tors, wire screen and tari-ed roofing paper or folt 

 have all proven elTcctual. It is also reliably rec- 

 ommended to smear the tree with bloody meat 

 once a week or so during" the winter. A white- 

 wash, in which, to a perk of lime, <)ne-half p()und 

 of co])])eras is dis.solved, thickly applied, is cheap 

 and said to be effective. 



791. Perennial Phloxes Dying. The question 

 is hardly explicit cm^ugh to admit of ad\ice being 

 given, as a number of causes might occasion 

 death; having standing water about the root-s 

 during winter, or not being taken up and divid- 

 ed every three or four yeai's, thus bec<^ming 

 weakened, or some underground insect may be 

 at work. The remedy for these is obvitius, to- 

 gether with ileeply digging and manuring the 

 plants in spring. —Kemle. 



992. Culture of Day-Lilies, This is extremely 

 simple if their requirements of shade and moist- 

 ure are supplied, and in no way can they better 

 be grown tnan by planting under trees along 

 some water course. Propagating is simply done 

 by dividing the roots. 



795. Asparagus Turning Oreen. Perhaps the 

 only thing to do would be to keep it in complete 

 darkness. 



802. Cultivating Native Cherries. I would 

 not suppose that in the cultivation of this Cherry 

 there would be any great profit unless grown 

 for the timber, which affords .a fair substitute 

 for Mahogany. The fruit is also in some demand 

 for fla\-oring brandy. There would seem to be 

 little hope of increasing the quality of fruit, and 

 a danger to be feared from them is black knot, 

 in which they are very prolific, to the damage of 

 Plum and other Cherry trees.— Remle. 



816. Water in Pipes in Summer. I have never 

 perceived any ill etfects from allowing water to 

 stand in the heating i>ipes during the summer.— 

 E. E. S., Miayara Co., JV. Y. 



810. Greenhouse Buildings. In an early issue 

 directions will be given for the erection of green- 

 houses suitable for various purposes. 



8.56. Baising Cauliflower Seed. All of the 

 most reliable Cauliflower seed is imported, no 

 part of our climate as yet being found suited to 

 growing it. Whether seed would mature suc- 

 cessfully in Colorado could only be learned by 

 experiment. — E. E. S. 



879. Fertilizers for Shade Trees. Bone dust, 

 guano or other good commercial manure applied 

 broadcast over as large a surface as the tree top 

 covers would certainly be beneficial. The same 

 manures could be applied in liquid form, or 

 stable manure water can be prepared by using a 

 bushel of horse or cow manure to a barrel of 

 water, and which can be refilled several times 

 before the manure is exhausted. For the same 

 quantity of water four pounds of commercial 

 fertilizers would be sufficient. — Remle. 



899. Hop Worm Troubling. The question is 

 so indefinite as to not admit of a satisfactory 

 answer. There are a number of worms or cater- 

 pillars which injure the Hop either on the vine or 

 at the root, though the worst of the latter (Hein- 

 oUts liumuli) is but little known in this country as 

 yet. The one meant may be the caterpillar of the 

 semicolon butterfly {Vanessa interrogationsin), 

 which sometimes abound to such extent as to 

 destroy the Hop crop. So far as known the only 

 remedy is, when the insects have become chrys- 

 alids and hang downwards from the leaves, to 

 cut oft the vines, save the ripe Hops and carefully 

 burn the rest. There is also a maggot parasite 

 (Ptcromaiuit Vanessa) which destroys great num- 

 bers of these worms. These caterpillai's usually 

 do not appear on the Hoji vine until .\ugust, and 

 are of a brownish color, variegated with yellow, 

 or vice versa, having a yellow line on each side; 

 the head is rust-red, with two spines. The chrys- 

 alis is ashen brown.— Remle. 



8.H4. Oreen Koses. You can do nothing with 

 them, and if you do not care for them it is best 

 to destroy all. It is the variety known as vir- 

 idiflora or \-iridiscens, which produces green 

 flowers of no beauty whatever, and is only grown 

 as a curiosity.- Chas. E. Parnell. 



1002. Pineapple Salvia, or Salvia Batilans. 



Thisis aSage in the way of the well known S. 

 cocinea, the tiowers being;crims<in and [inKluccd 

 in long slender spikes. It isa continuous bhiora- 

 er as the main spikes are succeeded b.v others, 

 which greatly prohmgs the beauty of the plant. 

 The foliage ha-, a scent somewhat like tliat of the 

 Pineapple, ami it isa desirable winter flower- 

 ing greeniiousc plant. 



1013. Maiden-hair Fronds Fading. Too much 

 heat and moisture were gnx'n while growing so 

 they are too tender to last well when cut. It is 

 probable, too, that they have had too much 

 shade and not enough air. From May onwards 

 they simiild have no artificial heat, but plenty of 

 air anil shade from hot sun. The mature frcaids 

 then, while not so large, will keep good for days, 

 it. after cutting, they are laid in water for a few 

 hours. From (jctober on the plants ought to 

 have a steady temperature of about 50", for then 

 they will remain green all winter.— Remle. 



991. Oxalis Without Bulbs. You probably 

 have one of the annual varieties. The genus 

 Oxalis includes annuals, jierennials, and green- 

 house shrubs. Some have tuberous rtjots, others 

 ar-e bulbs ; many are tender and others perfectly 

 hardy.— M. B. Fa.xon, Suffolk Co., Mass. 



992. Planting Lilies. Spring is the best time 

 to plant Lilies, as b>- so doing there is hardly 

 any danger from their being winter killed. If 

 the bulbs will not keep till spring they must of 

 course be planted in thefall. All the Lancifoliums, 

 the l,orn:iflorum,and the Auratum will keep tUl 

 spriUKiugoiid condition.— M. B. Fa.\on, Suffolk 

 Co., Mass: 



997. Lilium Loneiflorum Hardy. This Lily is 

 perfectly hard.v' with us — .M. B. Faxon. 



984. Caring for Banana and Pineapple Plants. 

 Given heat and moisture the dwarf species of 

 Banana iMusa CavendMH) may be easily grown. 

 They may either be planted in a pit, supplied 

 with bottom heat, or in pots, and plunged either 

 with or without bottom heat. A house for 

 Bananas should not be less than from 14 to 16 

 feet high with a night temperature of from 65° 

 to 70°. The soil should be turfy loam, three 

 parts, and old hot-bed manure, one part, with 

 some sand and crushed charcoal to make it por- 

 ous. If grown in pots they ma.v be ranged along 

 the sides of an ordinary warm greenhouse 

 devoted to foliage or flowering stove plants. As 

 a plant reaches its full size the flowers are thrust 

 out from the center and the first open flowers 

 set, and the fruit begins to swell rapidly. When a 

 sufficient number to form a good cluster of fruit 

 has set the remainder may be cut off. During 

 the time the fruit is swelling frequent waterings 

 with liriuid manure should be given. When the 

 fruits are approaching maturity the plants 

 should be kept rather drier at the root than 

 hitherto, and water should not be allowed to 

 touch them. The plant throws out offsets or 

 suckers from the bottom, which may be potted 

 singly, sartng all roots possible, kept in a 

 wai"m house, with plenty of moisture, they will 

 fruit in from twelve to eighteen months.— Re.mle. 



994. Lapageria Growing. The White (i. alba) 

 and the Red {L. rosea ) arethe best varieties being 

 usually grown against the wall of a green- 

 house. The best soil is turfy loam and leaf- 

 mould with very free drainage. Lapageria alba 

 being rather more difficult to manage, may be 

 given some extra care. 



1006. Camphor Trees Growing. There are 

 two trees from which the Gum Camphor of 

 commerce is obtained. Of the Sumatran Cam- 

 jjhor tree {Oryblalanops aroniatica) a native of 

 Borneo and Summatra, I can give no informa- 

 tion, and have not heard of their ever being 

 grown in this country. The common Camphor 

 tree iCinnamomum CampJiora) which belongs to 

 the family of the Laurels and is "a native of 

 China and Japan, is hardy in the Lower Gulf 

 States and can be raised from seed or cuttings, 

 under a bell glass, plants can be had of Reasoner 

 Bros , Manallan, Florida.— Remle. 



989. Propagating Plants. No special difficulty 

 should occur where the last named are rooted 

 without trouble. Carnation cuttings might be 

 given more air together with less top heat. 

 Scented Geraniums usuall,y root as easily as the 

 common ones. The earUer that Heliotrope 

 cuttings are put in after January the better for 

 rooting easily.— E. E. Su.mmey, Niagara Co., N.T 



New York Market Quotations, 

 Showing Tendencies. 



Week euillug Week ending 

 Nov. 17. Nov. 5. 



.•ipples— Kiug, per bill.,. $1 Trxs/J 75 S300®225 



SpitzeuVjlu-K, perbbl 2 IX%2 25 



Greening, choice bbl 1 7.5(7n2 OO 1 5(>«)1 87 



B.ildwiD. choice bbl., lS7{.ijl5() 1 50®! 87 



Twenty Ounce, per bbl 2 (lo@2 25 



Gravenstein, per bbl 20l)<rij300 



Cranberries— Cape Cod. per bbl., 6 75<ij7 25 7 5U(gj8 Ou 



(irapes— Delaware per bbl 5(& 7 4^ 9 



Concord, per lb 3@ 3 2® 4 



Niagara, per lb 8® 7 4(1^ 6 



Quinces— per bbl., 50® I SO 125@150 



Apples — evaporated, 1888 prime. (icwj (iW 



Evapoiated issa, common 5}i<iii mi 



Evaporated IS87, per lb 5(<ii e^ 



Chopped, per lb 2(r« 2^ 



C<»re.s and skins iu<«i 



I'eaclies— Del., evap't'd, peeled,. 18(a) 20 



Del., evap't'd. uiipeeled 7(''j 9 



Scmtliern. iieeled 8foj 10 



southern, unpeeled, 1888 .t^,(^i 



Raspberrlcs-evap'fd 18S8, lb.,.. <«. 22 



Sun-dried 188S, lb @ 20 



lilacklierries, evaporated 1888 5}M*^ 5>.i 



Potatoes— State Burbank, ISO lb. 75a)l"25 ' 125@1S2 



.state Rose, per 1801b., 1 25<in 50 



Sweet Jersey 2 00(oj2 50 1 50®2 00 



Sweet Virginia 1 25<",1 75 137@150 



Cabbage. Louj- Island, per 100... 200(.«30O 20O(rf800 



Onions— state yellciw, per bhl.,. 1 l^tsq 25 1511® — . 



Ea,sp'ru. " Idle per bbl 2(5<;.'.i325 



Celery, per duz. i.unehes 75 50® 75 



Squash. Hubbard, per bbl 1 O0o<jl 25 



Turnips, Russia, per bbl 50fe 75 C2Js® 75 



nECEUTS AT NEW YORK. 



Week eu<llug Cor. 



Nov. 17. days 87. 



Dried fruits, pkgs 21 821 11 309 



Apples, pkgs 743.35 84094 



Potatoes, bbls 75 668 143 163 



Onions, pkgs 5 376 8 523 



