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some of the young leaves. As this does 

 not penetrate the tissue, it seems to do 

 no harm. 



As to hardiness of tree, I can only 

 say, as yet, that its young wood and stem 

 were bright and perfect last Spring after 

 the severe test Winter wliich killed 

 our Richmonds of all ages. It has growiL 

 from the terminal points which such 

 luxuriance that the shoots are assuming 

 a pendent habit, which seems common 

 to about all the varieties of the cherries 

 of the East. — Prof. J. L. Budd, in 

 Rural New Yorker. 



THE MARLBORO' RASPBERRY. 



The Hon. M. P. Wilder, President 

 of the American Pomological Society, 

 writing to the Rural New Yorker, says : 

 " I am anxious to see what you have to 

 say about the Marlboro Raspberry. We 

 gathered some berries on the 4th, and 

 the bushes are now at their best. The 

 great number of big suckers, four to six 

 feet in height, detract from the size and 

 earliness of the fi uit. It is the earliest 

 I have, and if the suckers had been 

 treated as weeds, I have no doubt that 

 the size, earliness and quantity of fruit 

 would have been much increased. I 

 have never seen a raspberry of such ro- 

 bust growth and productiveness of an- 

 nual plants before, most of which must 

 be destroyed if you wish for a crop of 

 fruit. It is perfectly hardy, canes eight 

 feet in length not injured at all. The 

 Souchetii, or White Transparent, is now 

 coming in ; if yoit have it not, I should 

 be glad to send you plants. I would 

 not part with it." 



APPLE ORCHARDS. 



" The Apple is our staple fruit in 

 Western New York, and after three 

 years of failure of the crop the prices 

 have been somewhat discourao-inir. It 

 must be said, however, that a large 

 portion of our Ajjple crop was not up 



to the usual standard of excellence, 

 very much not fit to go into market as 

 first-class fruit. The main cause of this 

 was that the trees were heavily loaded 

 and poorly fed. We have good orchar- 

 ists in Western New York, and many 

 of them, but I must say, and I say it 

 from actual observation, that a large 

 number of our orchards are in a very 

 low state of cultivation, neither credit- 

 aVjle nor profitable to the owners. 



" Without attempting any details of 

 orchard culture, I would say that to 

 make orchards productiveand profitable, 

 the fertility of the soil must be main- 

 tained by the use of suitable fertilizers, 

 so that the trees will make a vigorous 

 annual growth. Judicious pruning must 

 be given, and insect enemies kept in 

 subjection. Then when the fruits are 

 grown and well grown, they must have 

 proper care in gathering, assorting, 

 packing and marketing. All these 

 require skill and watchfulness at every 

 step. Orcharding, even in our favored 

 section, cannot be made profitable 

 without thoroughness in every detail. 

 The best method of preventing the rav- 

 ages of the codlin moth is still a matter 

 of anxious inquiry and experiment. 

 The efficacy of Paris-green and other 

 poisons, as well as the propriety of using 

 them, are still open questions, and can 

 only be answered satisfactorily by care- 

 ful experiment. Thus far I think ex- 

 perience favors the iise of Paris-green, 

 when used with judgment and caj-e." — 

 Address ofP. Barry, before the W. N. 

 Y. Hort. Society, i'n Vick's Magazi'iie. 



The Thrip. — Mr. Cockburn said the 

 thrip may be killed by spraying with a 

 solution of one pound of sulphur and four 

 of unslaked lime in a bari'el of water. 

 The thrip infests the Delaware more than 

 any other grape ; hence he would separate 

 the Delaware from others. He suggested 

 the running of all vines in one direction, 

 so they may be laid down more easily for 

 winter protection. — Michigan Farmer. 



