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quart, and the whites for about 20 cents*, if properly handled in neat pack- 

 ages, so that the berries are fresh and not crushed. 



There is mone}' in raspberry growing if the plants are properly cared for. 

 Half an acre of raspberries will produce one-third more than the same area 

 of strawberries, and as the price received for them is greater and they are 

 much less costly to cultivate, there is plenty of money in them until the 

 price falls. Try it. 



Ottawa. P. E. BUCKE. 



THE BORDEAUX MIXTURE. 



^^O important has this Copper Solution become t6 fruit growers, that it 

 /^^ is important to have the formula for its preparation of convenient 

 access. A late Bulletin of Cornell University gives a modified 

 fomula, which is cheaper than the original one, more readily applied and 

 less injurious to the young foliage. We, therefore, give our readers this new 

 formula, hoping that our orchardists, who are troubled with the scab on 

 apples and pears, will give it a thorough trial, and report to us the result. 



(i) Sulphate of copper, 6 lbs., dissolved in 4 gallons of hot water. 

 (2) Lime, 4 lbs., " in 4 " cold water. 



Mix the two solutions as above, and, when desired for use, dilute to 22 gal- 

 lons with cold water. 



PLUM GROWING IN MICHIGAN. 



A T the recent meeting of the Michigan State Horticultural Society, Mr. 

 SfM Benton Gebhard, President of the Oceana Society, read a paper on 

 the history of plum-growing in that county, and the varieties and 

 modes of culture, in which he said there were plum trees in the country 

 which were thirt}' and thirty-five years old and had produced twenty 

 paying crops, and many more, twenty and twenty-four years old, which had 

 yielded fifteen paying crops, in some cases six bushels to the trees, with trees 

 still in full vigor. Mr. Gebhard instanced an orchard of sixty bearing 

 trees from^twelve to eighteen years old which had produced seven profitable 

 crops in succession, and whose receipts for three years last past aggregated 

 $706. Mr. Gebhard said: — 



" In starting a plum orchard the necessary thing to do is to procure old 

 terra-firma on which to plant your trees. By this I mean a good, heavy, 

 sandy loam, and still better if mixed with some clay, and not the white 



♦Note by Editor. — In Western Ontario we do not get such prices as these, unless for the very eaVliest. 



