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and heavy bread. The food of the Moorish porters in Spain consists of 

 brown bread and grapes. The apple is given first rank as an article of food, 

 and next to it is the grape. It is asserted by the scientist C. V. G. Napier 

 that persons using a farinaceous and fruit diet feel no inchnation for alcoholic 

 liquors : " I have noticed that a taste for spicy condiments, butcher's meat 

 and alcoholic Hquors is associated, and that a taste for plain flavored vege- 

 tables, fats and oils is likewise associated. I have known persons in the 

 habit of taking alcoholic stimulants daily, when eating meat, who find they 

 must give them up entirely when living without meats, their action under 

 those circumstances being too irritating to be endured without great incon- 

 venience." If this is true, the best way to promote temperance is to induce 

 the people to partake more largely of fruit. Mrs. Poole thinks that woman 

 would better her position by giving her undivided thought to the cultivation 

 of fruit, and she calls attention to the fact that in one state alone there are 

 80,000 superfluous women. These have to support themselves in some way, 

 and why not do it by raising and canning fruit 1—Turf, Field and Farm. 



THAT HUBBARDSTON APPLE. 



I WOULD have replied to Mr. Williams' interesting letter on page 176 of 

 The Horticulturist — so that it might have appeared in the July num- 

 ber — but being away from home could not do so. I am inclined to 

 think, from Mr. Williams' description, that I have not been getting the true 

 Hubbardston, as the apple he describes is similar to the one I have been 

 receiving from Prince Edward County. I might add further that it is very 

 smooth and regular in form, and fully three-fourths the size of a well-grown 

 King. If this is not the true Hubbardston, I always thought it was, and 

 am thankful to Mr. Williams for his information. It might not be out of 

 place to state that I got a considerable quantity of "La Rue§,' or "Baxters," 

 from the same section three years ago, and they proved a most valuable 

 apple to sell by the barrel, but rather too large to retail. They have been 

 enquired for every season since by those who bought of the lot above men- 

 tioned. I would have liked to have said a few encouraging words to my 

 northern friends about some plums and apples that are " promising well," 

 but as last winter was milder than usual, I might be speaking encouragingly 

 too soon, and will wait for another season. 



None of your readers have yet given me the information I asked for as 

 to the quality, etc., of the " Crimson Pippin." This, to my astonishment, 

 is among the promising varieties. No. 327, or Yellow Arcad, is fruiting with 

 me this season for the first. It will apparently be an extra early variety, 

 as the fruit is larger than the Yellow Transparent standing beside it. Canada 

 Baldwin so far has never killed back an inch, but seems slow in coming into 



