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The Codlwg Moth.— At a meeting of tlie Rosendale Famers' Clnb, Foud du Lac 

 county, Wisconsin, one of the members said "the Codling Motli was unusuall}' active last 

 season, producing a great many wormy apples. The moth was rapidly increasing, and 

 iinless it oould be checked, fruit growing must fall oft'." Another speaker said, ■' Tlie 

 Golden Russett was not as much injured by the moth as some others. The older trees of 

 the less hardy varieties were most infested." 



Apples for Nohthern Wisconsin.— A correspondent of the Western Farmer, wri- 

 ting from Northern Wisconsin, saj's : " The Fameuse, Talman Sweet, Golden Russet, 

 Ben Davis, Sops of Wine, Duchess of Oldenburg, Red Astrachan, Wine Sap, Rawle's 

 Jannette, Saxton, and Northern Spy, have, in the order I have named them, proved 

 to be quite hardy in this county. Other varieties are being cultivated here that are 

 allowing a good record thus far, and may prove worthy of being placed on the list of 

 hardy apples." 



Fruit in Western New York.— As an index of the vast amount of fruit produced 

 in Western New York, it is reported thai from the single county of Niagara, there were 

 shipped last season three hundred thousand barrels of apples, one hundred thousand bush- 

 els of cherries and plums, one thousand barrels of pears and quinces, fifty thousand crates 

 of peaches and four tons of grapes. 



The Hemlock.— Mr. Manning, of the Reading Nurseries, Mass., says : "I have pruned 

 them into forms that only require a sight to sell them at any price. They look best at 

 this season of the year. My hemlock hedges look most charming. The only thing nec- 

 essary to sell Hemlock is to get parties of taste out Id the nursery and see the hedge and 

 the trees." 



Peach Buds Killed. — Mr. J. C. Neff, of Duncan's Falls, Ohio, writes us that the 

 •cold snap of December 30th and 21st, did great injury, if not killed outright, all the peach 

 and cherry buds in that region. The mercury fell to twenty degrees below zero ou the 

 20th and stood there for some hours. 



Importance op Leaves. — Mcintosh says : "In plants the leaves act as lungs in ani- 

 mals ; that the preservation of the leaves on vines, as indeed of all other trees and plants, 

 is of vast importance — indeed so much so that the removal of a single leaf tends to lessen 

 the vigor and energy of the tree." 



Bleeding or the Vine. — Says a writer on the vine : "Bleeding of the vine in spring 

 is often a source of much anxiety ; we have never as j-et noticed any bad eflects resulting 

 from this bleeding of the laterals, either in the growth of the vine or crop of fruit." 



Large Lemon. — The editor of the Pacific Rural Press acknowledges the receipt of a 

 lemon grown in Los Angeles county, "that measured 1.5 inches in longitudinal circumfer- 

 ence, and llj^ inches transverse circumference. It was one of many hundreds on the 

 same tree, not all as large as this however." 



Reproduction op Cherribs.^A fruit grower in this vicinity positively asserts-that 

 the Early Richmond or Early May, and Black Morello cherries will reproduce them- 

 selves from the seed. It is my impression they will not witliout variation. How is it ? 

 — Geo. Walters, Ft. Scott, Kan. 



Remarks. — The Early Richmond or Early May will not, but we suppose the Black 

 Morello may with slight "variations" if any. 



An Acre ajjd its Fractions. — -An acre contains 43,560 square feet ; 3089.^ ftet square 

 make an acre. Ten bj' 16 rods make an acre. A cit}' lot one hundred feet long, by 

 twentj'-five feet wide is somewhat more than one-sixteenth of an acre. 



Davenport Horticultural Society. — A Horticultural Society has gone into opera- 

 tion at Davenport, with a library and reading room, and where the Pomologist and Gar- 

 dener has been ordered to put in a regular appearance. 



The German Prune. — Filler saj-s the German Prune may be grown where the common 

 ilue plum can be ; that the curculio works on it as on the plum. 



