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Varieties of Apple Self-fertile. — Baldwin, Codlin partially, R. I. Greening. 



Varieties of Pear Self-sterile. — Anjou, Bartlett, Bosc, Clapp's Favorite, 

 Clairgeau, Columbia, Doyenne Boussock and D. Grey, Easter Beurre, Gansell's 

 Bergamot, Howell, Jones, Lawrence, Louise Bonne, Mount Vernon, Pound, 

 Sheldon, Superfine, Souvenir du Congres and Winter Nelis. 



Varieties of Pear Self-fertile. — Buffam, Duchess d' Angouleme, Flemish 

 Beauty, Kieffer, Le Conte, Manning's Elizabeth, Seckel, Tyson, and White 

 Doyenne. 



If these results can be accepted as correct, and, from the extreme care taken 

 to attain correctness, the details of which need not be here given, there is every 

 reason to believe that they are correct, then it follows that notwithstanding the 

 late blooming of the Northern Spy, the flowers are fertilized by pollen from 

 other apple trees whenever the fruit is well set. 



In the Report of the Illinois Horticultural Society for 1886, it is recorded 

 that a hundred plants of dewberry in an isolated position were perfectly barren, 

 but after a row of blackberry, planted alongside of them, came into bearing, the 

 dewberry plants bore abundantly. 



There is abundant room for further investigation in this direction, until we 



have a complete list of both self-sterile and self-fertile varieties of all of our 



fruits, especially those planted in large quantities. 



D. W. Beadle. 



Training Tomatoes. — I believe in training tomatoes. The little trouble 

 one will take training and pruning will be more than repaid by clean handsome 

 fruit. First among my ten varieties stands Mikado, being the first to ripen, a 

 heavy cropper of very large, solid fruit ; but it ripens unevenly. Livingstone's 

 Perfection is very prolific, second to ripen; a beautiful fruit, but subject to black 

 rot. Ignotum ripens with Perfection, has very large handsome fruit, but badly 

 affected with black rot. Henderson's Shaw or Yellow Mikado bears very large 

 handsome fruit. Dwarf Champion is a small tomato both in fruit and plant, of 

 good quality. The old standard Paragon is of excellent quality and prolific. 

 With it ripens Henderson's Table Queen, a new variety. This tomato is .all 

 the originators claim for it. It is large and handsome, of fine flavor, a heavy 

 cropper. The Peach is of little value except to amuse the children ; very luxur- 

 iant in growth, and very prolific ; The old Trophy is very late ; Station Tree 

 Tomato is a dwarf but useless variety; it ripens with the Champion, but has very 

 small fruit. My tomatoes are all trellised, and are ripening in large numbers 

 daily, while the same plants of my neighbors left to grow on the ground ripen 

 very slowly and unsatisfactory. My advice to all who would grow good toma- 

 toes is to trellis them. Some posts set about eight feet apart, a few strands 

 of wire, a little care in training and pruining — this will be as bread cast upon 

 the waters, that you shall find after many days. — Henry C. Townsend, Dutchess 

 Co., N. Y. 



