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to mature. Whether any mode of treatment can 

 make it yield a crop of average size is yet to be, 

 proved. Jersey Queen is a pistillate of great 

 beauty and excellence and very late ; moderately 

 productive. Jucunda and Triomphe de Gaud 

 are two older European kinds, which under gen- 

 erous cultivation, in strong soils and with hill 

 culture, give good results. Wilder is a superb 

 fruit, but has many barren plants, and is unpro- 

 ductive. Hervey Davis is excellent in quality 

 and bears well. Belmont is a seedling raised 

 by Warren Heustis which has not yet been dis- 

 seminated, but has astonished Boston cultivators 

 for the past two seasons by its fine appearance 

 and enormous crops. It remains to be tested in 

 other hands. For the rest, we must depend 

 upon the catalogues,* making trial of novelties in 

 very limited quantities. 



The white grub of the May Beetle, or dor- 

 bug, as also Root and Crown Borers, often work 

 upon old beds and are very destructive. Dust- 

 ing with air-slacked lime or watering with Paris- 

 green or hellebore will check them. But in 

 such cases it is generally better to destroy the 

 beds and the insects together. Leaf rollers, cut 

 worms, and other insects which feed upon the 

 foliage may be destroyed by watering with helle- 

 bore, or, after the fruit is matured, with Paris- 



