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crab-like. The tree is a slow, spreading grower, fairly hardy, and very produc- 

 tive. With twenty-five or thirty varieties of crabs to choose frorr\ at the Oibbland 

 Farm, Abbotsford, this has been selected in canning for home use annually for 

 the past ten or twelve years. Gibb and Orange (of Minnesota) are the two best 

 canning crabs I know of. Planting for profit, I should include (iibb, Hyslop, 

 Transcendent, and Montreal Waxen. This latter is more generally known as 

 Montreal Beauty, but is distinct from the true Montreal Beauty as originated on 

 the Island. Orange was introduced by Mr. Gibb from Minnesota — a yellow 

 fruit, not sufficiently attractive as a market sort, but excellent for canning, being 

 almost wholly free from astringency. The accompanying figures have been 

 copied from drawings by Mr. Gibb. John Crak;. 



Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 



The Profit in Raspberries. — Raspberries would hardly be a profitable 

 crop at five cents per quart, unless it was five cents net, as it costs iJa to 2^3 

 cents per quart to pick them, to say nothing of expenses of marketing, which are 

 as much more. An average crop is about 1,000 quarts per acre for the three or 

 four years which they bear fruit and they soon run out. They ought to bring 

 eight cents per quart, to make it a fair business. They do best on a good 

 garden soil, but would grow on sandy land if there was moisture enough in the 

 summer. Well rotted yard manure should be applied every fall and worked in 

 around the roots with a fork. As far north as Nova Scotia and Northern 

 United States they would have to be laid down through the winter, which is 

 neither an expensive nor long job. — Farm and Home. 



The Peach Rosette. — This formidable disease of the peach is fully 

 described and figured in Prof. E. F. Smith's able and copious report issued by 

 the Department of Agriculture. It seems to occupy the ground in the South 

 that the yellows covers through the North and in the Central States, but it is 

 more speedy in its work of destruction. It is equally fatal to budded trees and 

 seedlings, cultivated, uncultivated and wild. It takes the Wild Goose and other 

 wild plums. It runs its course in about six months, and does not linger. 

 Commonly, it first appears in early spring. The leaves form compact tufts or 

 rosettes, turn yellow in early summer, and afterwards fall. They do not afford 

 enough shade to hide the branches, and the tufts are conspicuous and may be 

 seen at long distance. They drop their fruit early ; it is small, green and more 

 or less shriveled. It has occurred abundantly in Northern Georgia, but not in 

 South and North Carolina. It differs from the yellows in the absence of pre- 

 maturely-ripening fruit, and in a less tendency to develop slender shoots from 

 the large limbs It is virulently contagious. Extermination is of course the 

 only remedy. 



