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CAiYADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



would however acknowledge the follow- 

 ing, as they were sent him out of 

 compliment to the F. G. A. of Ont., 

 whose interests he serves. 



(1) Scions of the Paragon CJiestnui, 

 from N. M. Engle it; Son, Marietta, 

 Pa. It is claimed to be very large in 

 size, and of excellent quality. We 

 have grafted them on the native variety, 

 Castanea vesca, and hope soon to be 

 able to say whether this new variety 

 is worth being introduced into Canada. 



(2) A collection of twelve varieties of 

 evergreens from A. Gilchrist, West 

 Toronto Junction, and among them 

 some trees of Sequoia gigantea, the 

 giant of California. Besides these a 

 tree of Wisconsin Weeping Willow, 

 and other plants of interest. » 



(3) A packet of Saskatoon berries 

 from Rev. Geo. Bell, Kingston. These 

 are the June berries of the North- 

 West, botanically knows as Amelan- 

 chier alnifolia, and may be already 

 known to some as the berries used by 

 Indians in their " berry pemmican." 



(4) A collection of eighteen hybrid 

 Perpetual roses from F. Mitchell, 

 Innerkip. 



(5) A collection of fifteen netv varieties 

 of strav)berries, three of each, from 

 John Little, Granton, Ont., among 

 which we notice Itasca, Logan, Mary 

 Fletcher, Ohio, Covil, May King, Hen- 

 derson, Summit, Bubach No. 5, etc., 

 etc. 



(6) Scions of eight varieties of pears 

 and two of apples from S. D. Willard, 

 Geneva, N. Y. 



Another new Strawberry. — Mr. 

 T. V. Munson, of Texas, writes the 

 Rural Nero Yorker that he has met 

 with a new seedling strawberry, which 

 surpassed the Jewell, Jesde, or Buback, 

 No. 5. It is large to very large in 

 size, in quality better then the Crescent, 

 and enormously productive. This year 

 he states that it has produced at the 

 rate of 15,000 qts. per acre ! Should it 

 prove equal to promise it will be called, 

 " Parker Earle " out of compliment to 



the President of the American Horti- 

 cultural Society. 



A New Variety of Currant. — 

 An exchange says : — The new current 

 introduced last season under the name 

 Crandall is supposed to be a hybrid 

 between the cherry currant and Ribes 

 Aureum. The introducers of this new 

 variety, which originated in Kansas, 

 describe it as bluish black in color 

 when fully ripe, and varying in size 

 from one-quarter to one-half of an inch 

 in diameter, and growing in bunches of 

 five to eight berries each. The flavor 

 of the fruit is said to be peculiar to 

 itself and superior to the English black 

 currant. 



Professor Budd, of Iowa, has ex- 

 pressed himself as believing the Cran- 

 dall to be valuable for general culti- 

 vation. Vick, the well known New 

 York seedsman, says that the currant 

 worm does not infest this variety, and 

 that it adapts itself to almost any soil. 

 It appears to be especially prized for 

 preserves and jellies. 



CupI Leaf. 



Curl Leap in Peaches.— The curf-lccaf disease 

 in peach trees is caused by a small insect called 

 the plant louse. As soon as you see the leaves 

 begin to curl, take strong soapsuds water, and 

 stir in a decoction of tobacco juice ; sprinkle 

 the trees with it. The tobacco juice may be ob- 

 tained by steeping tobacco in water, and stir- 

 ring the juice in the soapsuds water. 



The above extract which is going 

 the rounds of the public press is some- 

 what misleading. The curl leaf proper 

 is not caused by the plant louse, but is 

 the result of a miscroscopic fungus, 

 called Exoascus deformans, which grows 

 among the cells of the upper portion of 

 the leaf and causes an unnatural 

 thickening and widening of the upper 

 surface, and thus forces the leaf to curl 

 backwards. Fig. 58 shows a cross 

 section of a healthy leaf, the upper 

 surface being represented at a and 

 the under surface at b. Fig. 59 

 represents the same as swelled and 

 curled by the fungus. This is indicated 



