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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



An apology is due our readers for the 

 lateness of our March issue, which was due 

 to the straying of some of the electrotypes 

 which had been forwarded to the printers by 

 mail. We hope to be more prompt in future. 



Mr. L. Foote, of Nepean, Ont., promises 

 us a series of articles on practical horticul- 

 ture, which are afterwards to be issued in 

 pamphlet form. We believe such a series 

 will be of special interest to a large number 

 of our readers who are taking up this branch 

 of industry. 



The Mills Grape, an engraving of which 

 appeared on page 102, vol. XI., will be 

 among the plants distributed in 1891. Mr. 

 W. H. Mills has very kindly donated a 

 thousand of these valuable vines to our 

 Society, but, as it is too late to put them on 

 our list for this spring, it is necessary to 

 hold them over for a year. Anyone, how- 

 ever, acting as agent in extending our mem- 

 bership may have one of these vines for 

 each new subscriber for the year 1890, which 

 he will send in during the month of April. 



The Yellow Transparent Apple is 

 highly commended in the report of the Ohio 

 State Horticultural Society, of 1889. It 

 was pronounced by several members as the 



best early apple, and superior to the Early 

 Harvest. Have any of our readers given it 

 a trial as a market apple ? 



The Hilborn Raspberry is also highly 

 recommended in the same report ; Mr. F. 

 R. Palmer claiming that it was better than 

 the Ohio and best of all black raspberries. 



The Worden Grape is commended by 

 the editor of the Country Gentleman. He 

 thinks the reason it was not appreciated at 

 first was because so many spurious plants 

 were sold, which were really- Concord ; and 

 this led many to believe they were one and 

 the same ; but now its value is beginning to 

 be known among cultivators. A Chicago 

 dealer is said to have sold 100 baskets of the 

 Worden lately at 90 cents a basket, when 

 Concords were selling at 30 cents. 



Strawberry Growing is the title of a 

 paper read before the Farmers' Institute at 

 Centralia, 111., by Mr. J. N. Kerr. He gives 

 some very good pointers for growers ; for 

 instance, in regard to marking out for plant- 

 ing, he recommends the wheelbarrow as a 

 most useful implement, and when used by a 

 competent hand as being both rapid and 

 accurate. Where exact distance between 

 plants is desired, a nail, screw or other 

 device is fixed in the rim of the wheel to 



