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Careful and generous cultivation or mulching, so as to secure a regular 

 and constant growth through the entire season, is evidently the proper 

 remedy. 



There may be danger o^ too high cultivation late in the season, producing 

 a succulent growth that may be injured by the cold of winter; but expe- 

 rience, I think, will show that there is less danger in this direction than the 

 opposite. 



The fruit-buds of the peach and other delicate fruits, which are easily 

 excited, are frequently prematurely developed by warm and wet weather 

 in the fall, and, when so developed, are sure to be killed by the first severe 

 cold ; but such development never occurs except after a season of rest. 



If the growth is regular and constant through the entire season, there is 

 no danger ; but if, after the fruit-buds are formed, severe drought occurs, 

 so that the growth ceases and the leaves mostly fall, and subsequently the 

 buds are stimulated by very warm and wet weather, they will swell, and the 

 injury follows of course. 



My conclusions are, that to preserve the health and vigor of our fruit- 

 trees, and insure a regular production of fruit, requires the most careful 

 treatment during the last of summer and early autumn, counteracting the 

 effect of extreme drought or extreme wet, and effecting a uniform, con- 

 stant, and healthy growth, till the gradually-advancing cold strips them of 

 their foliage, and consigns them to their annual rest in a normal state. 



An excessive growth is never healthful, but is particularly injurious at the 

 close of the season. The growth should be gradually checked, but only 

 by Nature's proper agent, — the cold winds of approaching winter, the 

 lullaby that puts them to sleep. Elmer Baldwin. 



CONSEILLER DE LA COUR. 



This is not a new pear ; having been raised by Dr. Van Mons. It is 

 also known in the Belgian collections as Marcchal de la Cour and Due 

 d'Orleans. It has constantly been increasing in fa^or ; which induces us to 

 reproduce it at this time. 



