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Gage, Reine claude de Bavay, Coe's 

 Golden Drop, German Prune, Pond's 

 Seedling, Columbia, Duane's Purple, 

 and Lombard. Mr. Cline has satis- 

 factorily demonstrated the advantage 

 of using Paris green in lighting the cur- 

 culio. By applying it each year about 

 the time of the fall of the petals, he 

 has succeeded in raising abundant crops 

 during the ])ast two or three years in a 

 section where plum growing had long 

 ago been totally abandoned, on account 

 of this pest. 



Winter Protection of Blackberries. — W. 

 A. B. writes to the Rural Nein Yorker, 

 from the east shore of Lake Michigan, 

 strongly advocating winter protection 

 of the blackberry, and thus growing 

 the better kinds, as he considers the 

 Taylor, Snyder, and Stone's Hardy 

 inferior to the wild varieties growing 

 thei-e. His method of covei'ing " re- 

 quires two men, one of whom removes 

 a spadeful of earth from one side of the 

 base of the canes, while the other 

 grasps, with a pair of leather mit'ens, 

 the top of the canes and brings the tops 

 to the earth, laying the canes as near 

 the ground as practicable without 

 breaking, when a few spades of earth 

 are thrown upon the toj)s to keep them 

 in a horizontal position." A covering 

 of hay or straw completes the work. 

 This plan is quite pi'acticable with the 

 Wilson, but is a little more trouble- 

 some with such stout growing kinds as 

 the Lawton or Kittatinny. 



Ferrous Sulphate. — Dr. A. B. Griffiths, 

 F.R.S., finds that ferrous sulphate will 

 destroy parasitic fungi ; and the same 

 article, according to the Scientific Am- 

 erican, is under test as a S2)ecial 

 manure foi- the vineyard. 



Industry Gooseberry. — Mr. M. H. Beck- 

 with, of Geneva, N.Y., says this berry 

 mildewed with him, last year worse 

 than any other variety. The fruit was 

 affected so badly that it nearly all 



dropped off before being fully ripe. 

 What is the experience of our readers'? 



The Northern Light was shown at the 

 American Poiuological Society's Meet- 

 ing at Boston. The Rural says of it : 

 " A very showy white grape, with im- 

 mense clusters." It was also shown at 

 Grimsby, and Avas the object of much 

 attention, owing to the great length of 

 the clusters. 



New Strawberries. — A writer in the 

 Rural Neio Yorker has fruited Itasca, 

 Logan and Bubach this year with great 

 satisfaction. He finds the Itasca larger 

 and more productive than the Crescent, 

 about as firm as the Wilson, and of the 

 best flavor. The Logan, he thinks, 

 may prove the most productive large 

 berry yet offered, surpassing even the 

 Bulbach in uniformity and in size and 

 in flavor. 



Prunus hssardi. — The Gardener s 

 Monthlif thinks it would be much bet- 

 ter to call this plant the blood-leaved 

 cherry plum, instead of the Latin name, 

 which would give the impi-ession that 

 it is a distinct species when it is only a 

 purple-leaved vai-iety of the Myrobalan 

 plum. It was named after Mr. Pi-ssard, 

 gardener to the Shah of Persia, who 

 discovered it. 



American Apricot Peach. — The Gardener's 

 Monthly, for October, describes a new 

 peach upon which it has bestowed the 

 above name. 



Like the Delawai'e grape, the Lady 

 apple, and the Seckel pear, this peach 

 is supposed to be desirable as a desert 

 fruit, notwithstanding its small size, on 

 account of its delicious flavor. 



It is medium in size, of a golden 

 apricot color, with rich i-ed shading on 

 the sunny side. It is a free stone, and 

 the flesh is sweet and melting. It 

 originates in South Carolina, and the 

 time of ripening is with that of the 

 Pine Apple j)each. 



In one day last summer, one hundred 

 and ninety-live car loads of straw! )er- 



