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by the quantity of water controlled. Rich people watered their grounds during 

 the whole summer, but the poor watered theirs very little on account of the scar- 

 city. I am inclined to think that it is almost certain that the luxuriant growth 

 caused by the frequent watcring.s was the cause of their failure to fruit."' 



I shall be much pleased if the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, of which 

 1 have the honor to be a member, will call public attention to this useful fruit. 

 It will be a gratification to me to see the time when the Uriuck apricot will 



Fig. 35. — The Uriuck Apricot. 



occupy, in the orchards and gardens in your country, a place along with the 

 other highly prized novelties. 



I send some pits of the Uriuck apricot. The illustration accompanying this 

 article represents the fruit of medium size, and pits of various sorts. 



Winnieza, Podolie, Russia. " Jaroslar Niemetz. 



Note by Editor. — These pits of the Uriuck apricot which are sent us by 

 our friend, Mr. Niemetz, together with scions of other valuable Russian sorts of 

 fruit, have been placed in the hands of Prof. Wm. Saunders, Director of the 

 Experimental Fafm, Ottawa. He will test them carefully at that place, and, if 

 they are found to be desirable, they will be distributed to the members of our 

 Association, who will experiment with them still farther. 



The Lawn. — A lawn that is carefully prepared and served with a niixiurc 

 consisting half and half of red top and blue grass before May isl, will usually be 

 a fine expanse of velvety green before September, provided it is kept clipjied by 

 a mower, once or twice a week on the average. — Frot?i Long's " H<mi to plant a 

 place" 



How to Eat Str.\wbrrries. — The very height of strawberry-eating is with 

 coffee. Nobody ever really tasted coffee who has not drunk it in alternate 

 mouthfuls with strawberries, and nobody knows the strawberry flavor excepting 

 immediately after the clearing of the taste which comes from drinking coffee. 

 The clearing property of coffee is familiar enough, but there is strange ignorance 

 of this special application of it. The best of strawberries with the best of coffee 

 makes the sujjreme refinement of indulgence in the fruit. -N. V. Post. 



