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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 

 The Bubach Strawberry. —This variety 

 is highly spoken of in the Report of the 

 Indiana Horticultural Society for 1888 as 

 being very productive and its berries uni- 

 formly large, of good flavor and fine appear- 

 ance. The three best of the recently intro- 

 duced varieties, which have been tested, are 

 claimed to be the Logan, Bubach and Jessie. 

 All are said to be strong growers and com- 

 paratively free from blight. The Logan is 

 mentioned as being equal to the Crescent in 

 productiveness. The largest berry was had 

 from the Jessie ; it was seven inches in cir- 

 cumference. In plant, berry and vigorous 

 growth ihe Jessie was thought to be superior 

 to the Sharpless. 



Planting Strawberries. — In the same 

 Report we find early spring planting recom. 

 mended as by all means more likely to insure 

 success thanat any otherseason. Ratherclose 

 planting is also recommended ; Cumberland, 

 Jessie and Sharpless as close as eight inches 

 apart. 



LucRETiA Dewberry. — Mr. W. B. Wal- 

 ker, of Greenfield, read a paper before the 

 same Society on the Lucretia Dewberry. 

 He has been growing it since 1884 and has 

 found it to be easily cultivated and very profit- 

 able. He sets them six and seven feet apart 

 and cultivates chiefly with the plough. In 



size, the berries average from larg^ to very 

 large and he considers it one of the hand- 

 somest and best blackberries grown. On 

 account of its trailing habit, he uses a mulch 

 of straw to keep the fruit from lying on the 

 ground. The yield is from two to three 

 quarts per hill. 



Hardy Peaches. — At the late meeting of 

 the New York Horticultural Society the 

 following varieties of peaches were spoken of 

 as the most hardy, viz : the Early Rivers, 

 Hill's Chili and Hine's Surprise. These can 

 nearly always be relied upon for a crop. The 

 writer has also found the Early Purple and 

 the Hale's Early to be much more certain of 

 a crop than the Early Crawford or the Old 

 Mixon. It is to be regretted some of the 

 very finest varieties are also the most tender. 

 The prospect, however, for this season, in the 

 Niagara district, is unusually encouraging ; 

 for all varieties are well laden with fruit 

 buds which have come through the winter 

 without injury. 



The FIRST Tasmanian apples wereexpected 

 to arrive in England about the 21st of April. 

 It was at one time thought that these would 

 compete with our late shipments in the 

 spring, and so make it necessary for us to 

 put our crop forward earlier than the date 

 mentioned. But the freight from so distant 

 a country is too high to allow them to drive 



