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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Mr. Kerman and Muriate of Potash. 



Sir, — The Muriate of Potash which I got of you in the spring has far exceeded any 

 thing I have seen in the way of fertilizers. The first thing I applied it to was my asparagus 

 bed : the result was really astonishing. Owing to my being ill and confined to the house 

 for some weeks about the end of May, I had a small block of peach trees which were 

 omitted to be cultivated. I did not get round until the 10th of July, there were a large 

 crop of fruit on them, hut the trees looked very sickly and the leaves yellow. On the 13th 

 nf July I put on round the trees about 3 feet from the stem, 3 lbs. of Muriate of 

 I'utash per tree. The effect in even 10 days was extraordinary (they were Alexander 

 peaches), and there were not near the rotten ones on those trees that there were on other 

 trees that had not been dressed. I am very pleased you recommended it me, and cannot 

 speak too highly of it Should you at anytime wish to make any use of this letter, you 

 are at perfect liberty to do SO. 



29th Aug., 1893. D. Kerman, Port Dalhousie. 



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BOOKS. 



Annual Report of the Farmers' Institi'tes of the Province of Ontario, 1892. 

 President, Thos. Lloyd Jones, Burford ; Secretary, A. H. Pettet, Grimsby. 



Report of the Pomologist for 1892, by H. E. Van Deman. Issued by the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Experimfnts with Fertilizers for the Prevention and Cure of Peach Yellows, 

 1889-92, by Erwin F. Smith, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Annual Report of the Maine State College Agricultui'al Experiment Station, Orono, 

 Me., 1892, Part IV. 



35th Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of the State of Missouri, 

 1892. L. A. Goodman, Secretary, Westport, Mo. 



Second Report of the Department of Agricultural of the Province of British Columbia, 

 1892. 



Annual Report of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, 1892. Secretary, A. 

 W. Latham, Excelsior, Minn. 



CATALOGUES. 



Summer and Autumn, 1893. Catalogue of Strawberries, Holland Bulbs and Special- 

 ties, Ellwanger and Barry, Mount Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. 



No. 1 Fruitland Nurseries, Augusta, Ga. P. J. Berckmans, Proprietor, Fruit and 

 Ornamental Trees, Roses, etc., 1893. 



Calender of Queen's College and University, Kingston, Ont., for the year 

 1893-4. 



Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Silverware, Imperial Silverware Co., 

 Windsor, Ont. 



