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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Mr. E. Williams, of New Jersey, suggests an improvement in the naming 

 of strawberries. He would give female names to the pistillate varieties, and 

 male names to the staminate. Such names would designate at once the char- 

 acter of the flowers to the cultivator, who would know at a glance to which class 

 they belonged. Of course there are some varieties whose flowers are perfect, 

 and perhaps neuter names might be applied to these. Certainly some such plan 

 would be a convenience. 



New Method of Applying Kerosene for Insects. — The Wisconsin 

 Station Report for 1891, E. H. Goff, Horticulturist, gives a new method of 

 applying kerosene for insects, which would appear to be of value to us. It con- 

 sists in having a pump so constructed that lower valve seat allows the entrance 

 of water through one opening and kerosene through another. The two liquids 

 become mixed in passing through the valves and cylinder of the pump, and are 

 finally broken up into an exceedingly fine spray by being forced through a good 

 spraying nozzle. The mixture is, of course, mechanical and not absolutely 

 permanent; but still it has been found sufficiently slow of separation for safe 

 use upon plants. When the spray is collected in a glass vessel, the liquid 

 appears milky white, and retains its milky proportion for hours. This mixture 

 has been tested upon the foliage of the evergreen, rose, strawberry, grape, rasp- 

 berry, blackberry, plum, etc. ; and in no case did it prove injurious, unless the 

 amount of kerosene exceeded ten per cent. This mixture was found to be 

 equally efficient in destroying insects as the soap emulsion, and no more 

 injurious to the foliage. It is more satisfactory as it passes through the pump 

 more readily. As the kerosene acts rapidly upon the rubber piston of the 

 pump, it is necessary to use a leather piston in the place of the rubber. 



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