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when the butter- fly is laying its eggs ; 

 watch for the young worms, put on the 

 air-slacked lime ajl over the cabbage 

 when you see them on the cabbage, and 

 yoxi will have a good crop. 

 Yours truly, 



George Taylor. 

 Scarboro' Junction, Jan. 15, 1885. 



CELERY. 

 I raise a great deal of celery and llnd 

 good market for it. I find Saudring- 

 ham and Boston Market the best I 

 have had. Wm. Turley. 



Lucknow, Dec, 1884. 



FRUIT GROWING IN COUNTY OF 

 GREY. 



Dear Sir, — Last summer was a bad 

 year for fruit. We had neither plums 

 nor peaches. Plum trees were badly 

 killed around here. We had not very 

 many apples, but we had a great crop 

 of grapes and cherries. All the plants 

 I'eceived from the Association have 

 done well. The Glass Seedling plum 

 is quite healthy. 



William Brown. 



Annan, Jan., 18S5. 



VEITCHE'S PERFECTION PEA. 



Dear Sir, — I have read of this and 

 that best pea, but I think they must 

 be out and out best peas that can beat 

 Veitche's Perfection as a fine large 

 table pea, splendid flavor. It is a late 

 pea. I think if it was better known 

 it would be more grown. The only 

 catalogue that mentions this variety in 

 Canada as I see is Bruce & Co., Ham- 

 ilton. I wish I could get a good early 

 variety of tomato as reliable as the 

 above pea. T have purchased tomatoes 

 from time to time but cannot yet get a 

 reliable early tomato for the cold North. 



T. A. H. 

 Muskoka. 



GRAPE VINE FLEA-BEETLE. 



In order to lessen the grape vine 

 flea-beetle an excellent plan for this 

 purpose is to provide some fly-paper 

 prepared with boiled linseed oil, etc. 

 These may be placed at the base of the 

 vine, and when the insect is disturbed 

 the natural course of protection is the 

 ground, and by this means is very 

 easily captured. 



This plan may be very effective for 

 only a few vines, but may with ingenu 

 ity be applied on a large scale by plac- 

 ing the papers on a stretcher and 

 moving along from vine to vine. 



Berlin, Jan., 1885. P-- 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



Progi-amme of Meetings for Discus- 

 sion during the season of 1885 : 



Feb. 7. — Methods of Fruit Growing, by 

 Prof. S. T. Maynard, Am- 

 herst. 



Feb. 14.— Garden Flowers, by Mrs. T. L. 

 Nelson, Worcester. 



Feb. 21. — Discussion on such subjects per- 

 taining to Horticulture as 

 may be suggested. 

 Feb. 28.— The Leaf as a Study, by Dr. G. 

 Austin Bowen, Woodstock, 

 Con. 

 Mar. 7. — Propagation of Trees from 

 Seeds, by Jackson Dawson, 

 Jamaica Plain. 

 Mar. 14. — Nomenclature of Fruit, by Hon. 

 Marshall P. Wilder, Boston. 

 Mar. 21. — Heating Greenhouses, by Joseph 



H. Woodford, Newton. 

 Mar. 28. — A Comparison of Manures for 

 the Orchard and Garden, by 

 Prof. G. C. Caldwell, Ithaca, 

 N.Y. 

 The meetings will be held at Horti- 

 cultural Hall, Treraont Street, Boston, 

 at 11 o'clock. All interested are freely 

 and coi'dially invited to attend. 



