CA JVA DIA N HORTICUL TURIST. 



The Curl of the Peach Leaves. 



In tlic NiiVfiuliiT iniinhcr you gave a dt'scrip- 

 tinii ..f the curl of the peach' leaves. We have 

 a remedy that wavt-s oui trees, that is for the 

 one season. We take some coals and old 

 leather in a tin pail and han^ them on a jatch 

 fork, and smoke the tree well, and the diseased 

 leaves will all drop in a few days and it will 

 not hurt the fiiiit nor healthy leaves. We 

 have used it foiu' or five seasons and it never 

 failed us. K. Ai.nslie. 



B.\CO.NSKIKI,I). 



Note by F. Sfiut(, C/innisI, K.riurimoital Farm. 

 Personally. I should be very apt todouhtthe 

 efficacy of the fumes of hiu-niiitf leather for 

 the destruction of the fuiiLnis (.nxixciix lUJor- 

 maiix, unless it (the fumes) were verv dense and 

 hot, (in wliich cas.- th.- oth.-r I.m vs w,,uld likely 

 1..- atr.'cted. In tiiis iiicnipl.t.' combustion of 

 leather midoubtedly nuuiy coiiiiioundsof iiitri>- 

 gen (cyanogen to ammonia) are formed, but 

 what effect such, in the fiuantities they are 

 present in sucti fumes, would have ujion the 

 fungus it woidd be difficult to say without direct 

 e.x]teriment, as there api)ears to be no experi- 

 ments of the kind on record. On the other 



hand, leaves affected by thin funguH, niust have 

 their vitality impaired, and would therefore be 

 the first to succumb to any outside influence of 

 a deleterious nature. In this way the leather- 

 or perhaps other fumes are beneficial in hasten- 

 ing the fall of the diseased leaves. 



The "Jewel" Grape. 



Sir,- We have good account of the Jewe 

 lately secured from Mr. Wm. Mead Pattison, 

 of Clarenceville, P.(^.. who fruited this last 

 season, he says : — 



" I am most favorably impressed with the 

 .lewel which rii)ened in August this year, close 

 on Champion, and I thought a trifle earlier. The 

 vine is vigorous, foliage healthy. Fruit of 

 excellent (juality and does not deteriorate soon 

 after ripening. Herry not as lar^e and bunch 

 as showy as Champion, but this is more than 

 compensated in earliness, cjuality, and other 

 points of value. If it continues to do as well 

 here it will be the most jiopular extra early 

 grai)e. — W. Mead Pattison." 



STAY.MAN & Black. 



Leavenworth, Kansas. 



REVIEW. 



Books. 



The BusHHKiui C.\talo(;uk. An illustrated 

 ( ira I >e (J rowers' Manual, by Bush and Son and 

 Meissner. viticulturists, Bushberg, Missouri. 

 Cloth, price .?ll.OO. 



This is a most valuable book of 152 i>ages and 

 deserves special mention as deserving a place 

 in the library of every vineyardist. After 

 treating of climate, soil "and aspects, there is a 

 most exhaustive chapter (m the true gi-ape vines 

 of the United States, by Dr. (i. Engelmann, in 

 wliich is clearly shown the characteristics of 

 the various species of Labrusca, Cordifolia, 

 Uiparia, ^-Estivalis, etc., and a careful classifi- 

 cation thereof. The next is viticultural re- 

 marks on our American species, with lists of 

 their cultivated varieties. (xrape grafting, 

 trellising, training, Ijruning, diseases, etc., are 

 also carefully dealt with in this work, which 

 closes with a very full descriptive and illu- 

 strated catalogue. 



Second Annual Repokt of the Forest 

 Commission of the State of New York for the 

 vear 1886. A. L. Prain, Albany, N. Y., 

 Secretary. 



This work treats in an able manner of the 

 serious residts of the loss of forests, such as the 

 drying up of springs, and the causing of sudrlen 

 and destructive Hoods, and the injury to agi-i- 

 cultural interests, and ably advocates the care- 

 ful i)reseryation of forests still standing. 



x\ dduess of the eighth meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Horticultural Society, in San Jose, Cali- 

 fornia, January 25th, 1888, by Parker Earle, 

 president of the Society. This excellent 

 addiess may be had by any person w1k> will 

 take the trouble of enclosing 2 cents for jxistage 

 to the Secretary, W. H. Kagan, Greencastle, 

 Indiana. 



Miscellaneous. 



The Lamh Phi/,e Essays, from J. A. Wat- 

 son, Cimcord, N.H., (1) Healthy Homes and 

 Foods. (2) Sanitarv conditions of School Houses, 

 etc., (3) Di.sinfection, etc,, against Infectious 

 Diseases, (4) Preventable Causes of Diseases. 



The Maryland Farmer, publi.shed at Bal- 

 timore, Md., a monthly magazine at -$1.00 jht 

 annum. 



The Illustrated London News, American 

 edition, published at Potter Building, New 

 York City, 10c. i>er copy with sujiiilement, or 

 S4.00 per annum. 



Advance i)lates of the illustrations are for- 

 warded every week to New York City, thiis 

 enabling American subscribers to receive this 

 valual)le journal, so ably illustrating the news 

 of the day as (juickly as formerly by mail froir 

 England, and at less than half tlie cost. 



CiRClLARs from John Little, Granton, on 

 the Ita.sca, the Logan, and other new straw- 

 berries which he now offers for sale. 



