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fact of its discovery, first cultivation, and a brief description of the fruit, 

 which I reduced to an article, that was published, entitled " The Gregg 

 Raspberry." In that article I christened it the Gregg, in honor of the gen- 

 tleman who saved it from nature's waste basket, into which doubtless many 

 valuable varieties of fruit have been negligently cast and lost. 



This berry before being introduced to the public in the fall of 1874, 

 when plants were first disposed of for cultivation, had received a thorough 

 and searching test at home. Its managers, the Messrs. Gregg, after having 

 for several years cultivated it, in July 1872 sent a cluster of its fruit to the 

 Clarke amd Floyd Counties Horticultural Society, where it met with almost 

 unbounded favor. The action of the society was published at the time in 

 the Induxna Farmer. They next brought it to the notice of the Indiana 

 State Horticultural Society. In 1873 the society in its published report 

 gave It a very high commendation. In July 1876 they put it on the tables 

 of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, where it was unanimously pro- 

 nounced the best black raspberry ever exhibited before the society. In 

 187G they prepared drawers of sufficient depth, and lined the bottoms and 

 sides about two inches thick with wet moss, into which they inserted the 

 stems of the clusters of berries, which served as a kind of cushion, and 

 kept the berries moist and cool, putting two or more drawers together like 

 ordinary fruit cases, and in this way they expressed several shipments to 

 the Centennial Exposition, a distance of about 700 miles, where they were 

 received and exhibited in as good condition as when taken from the patch. 



QUESTION DEAWEE. 



(1.) What is the most effectual way of destroying the Caterpillar on currant and 

 gooseberry bushes ? I am aware that there are some very effectual remedies, but 

 being poisonous M-ould not hke to use them. You may perhaps know of something 

 which would not be poisonous to persons, but at the same time would destroy the 

 insects. 



We have not found any inconvenience to result from the use of 

 hellebore, which,, though poisonous to man in considerable quantity, is 

 washed off the currants and gooseberries long before they are fit for 

 use. The Saw-fly Caterpillar makes its appearance very early in the 

 season, and if the hellebore is promptly applied as often as a brood is 

 hatched, they will be all gone many weeks before the fruit is ready 

 for use, and the rains will have washed off all trace of the heUebore, 

 We know of nothing that wdll meet these Saw-fly larvze so certainly 

 and promptly as white hellebore. 



(2.) Also, the most effectual way of destroyuig the striped and black bugs on 

 cucumber, melon and squash vines ? 



Wg have found Scotch snuff sprinkled on these plants as soon a» 

 they appear above ground, and repeated as often as it is washed off by 



