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should be removed, the soil fertlized 

 and cultivated until Autumn, when 

 the mulch may be replaced in the sliape 

 of long straw manure. Strawberries 

 ought always to be grown in rows with 

 sufficient space to run a cultivator 

 between. It pays in many ways, but 

 above all in the matter of clean cultiva- 

 tion, wiiich the bed system rarely 

 obtains. — [Josiah Hooper.— /u Pldladel- 

 pltid, Wei'kly Press.^ 



The Cause of Peach Yellows. 

 I HAVK had much experience with 

 the peach yellows, and have used all 

 known remedies ; yet some trees would 

 be healthy and others would have the 

 yellows. I Ijelieve the disease is not 

 simply due to lack of potash or of cul- 

 ture or of pruning, or of general man- 

 agement, but to something back of all 

 these, which I shall name as difference 



of heredity. If we could absolutely 

 get back and behind all bad heredity, 

 all tendency to di-sease and keep free 

 from contagion by all insect influence, 

 I should think we were on the high 

 road to success against the peach 

 yellows. Meanwhile, my advice is to 

 plant only the best trees of medium 

 growth on land of only moderate 

 fertility. Give moderate yearly rations 

 of a special peach manure, and cultivate 

 well up to mid-summer ; but then quit. 

 Remove at once any trees that appear 

 diseased. Prune judiciously so as to 

 get even well-rounded heads. Thin out 

 sufficiently to let in sunlight, and a 

 free circulation of air, doing this just 

 before the buds show color in spring. 

 Thin the crops severely. When the tree 

 is matured, manure liberally. — [P. M. 

 Augur, Connecticut State Pomologist. 

 — In Farm and ffoine.] 



NEW STRAWBERRIES. 



By John Little, Granton, oxt. 



SHALL we test them? "Yes" by 

 all means. And for several 

 reasons, (1) we can then tell if they 

 are true to the claims of the orifjinator; 

 (2) whether they are old varieties 

 bearing new names, and (3) if they are 

 of any value away from the originator, 

 and planted in a different locality and 

 a soil different from that tlie plants 

 came from. Most all of the new varie- 

 ties are tested ' here ' at no little care 

 and trouble and also at considerable 

 expense. 



Only a few of the old varieties re- 

 main. Since the introduction of tlie 

 Jessie and Bubach, these head the list 

 of those fruited here ; then (4old, 

 Logan, Itasca, Belmont. Of the old 

 varieties I still retain Summit, Craw- 

 ford, and "Ontario." This latter 

 variety is claimed V)y a writer in 

 Orchard and Garden in the July No. 



to be the " Sharpless." AVith all due 

 respect to the writer of said opinion it is 

 a different plant in leaf and stem, rarely 

 misshappen, rarely a w/iitetip ; being 

 more solid, and a plant more prolific in 

 fruit than Sharpless. 



A number of seedlings fruited here 

 this fceason, and some of them twice, 

 are worthy of mention. Mr. Loudon's 

 Nos. 15, 22,23,3-t; Mr. Townsend'sNos. 

 3, 9, 10. I have been induced from the 

 extravagant reports made about the 

 following to test them iiere and com- 

 pare them with the other seedlings 

 growing alongside of them ; — Haver- 

 land, Gandy, Wartield, Boml)a, Car- 

 michael, ^lammoth, Monmouth and 

 Hampden. 



It is often a wonder to me how some 

 who are in the practice of introducing 

 new varieties and of lauding them with 

 such an amout of praise, that when 



