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especially where the barbarous custom of 

 allowing cattle to run at large has been done 

 away with, (should not be one continuous 

 park, with the borders growing up with a 

 great variety of beautiful native trees and 

 shrubs, among which our native wild flowers 

 might be encouraged to grow. 



SPRAYING FOR CURCULIO. 



Dr. Clarence Weed, of Ohio, has, during 

 the last season, been making further ex- 

 periments with Paris green for the curculio, 

 and he is satisfied that it is a more complete 

 preventure of injury than jarring the trees. 

 He experimented upon an orchard of some 

 goo trees, jarring the trees in one-half the 

 orchard in the usual way, and spraying the 

 other half with poison, in the proportion of 

 four ounces to fifty gallons of water. The 

 first application was made immediately after 

 the blossoms fell, and, on account of succes- 

 sive rains, repeated three or four times. On 

 examination, in the month of July, not over 

 three per cent, of the sprayed fruit was stung, 

 while about four per cent of the fruit on the. 

 jarred trees was injured. A heavy crop of 

 plums was harvested on both parts of the 

 orchard, but the spraying was much less ex- 

 pensive than the jarring, and more effective. 



SPRAYING FOR LEAF BLIGHT OF 

 THE PEAR. 



B. D. H., in the Garden and Forest, says 

 that a large pear orchard, of 1,200 trees, was 

 sprayed early in the season with carbonate 

 of copper, and, as a result, the trees did not 

 drop the foliage as many other trees did 

 which were not sprayed, and the quality of 

 the fruit was so much superior that the owner 

 secured an unbroken list of first premiums 

 at the state fair. We hope our readers will 

 give this fungicide a thorough trial next spring, 

 beginning very early, even before the blos- 



soming period, with the first application, 

 in order that the results may be clearly 

 proved to the satisfaction of all. The writer 

 has applied the copper carbonate both in 

 suspension and dissolved in ammonia, on 

 Flemish Beauty pear trees. Northern Spy 

 apple trees and Bartlett pear trees, but not 

 until the fruit was nearly the size of hickory 

 nuts ; and this was not a fair test. Still the 

 results seemed to show in favor of those 

 trees that were so treated, both in the bright 

 ness of the foliage and in the clearness of 

 the fruit. We sincerely hope that it will 

 prove a complete remedy for apple scab 

 and leaf blight, the two most serious dis- 

 couragements which the Canadian fruit 

 grower has now to. face. 



NAMING COUNTRY ROADS. 



In Contra Costa county, California, apian 

 has been adopted for numbering country 

 houses. It is called the " ten block system " 

 and was originated by Mr. A. L. Bancroft, 

 who has sent us a full account of it. The 

 plan contemplates the division of every mile 

 of roadway into ten equal parts, each of 

 these divisions to be numbered, and every 

 house is to bear the number of the block in 

 which it is situated. If there are more than 

 one house in a block these are distinguished 

 by letters. The roads are to have names, taste- 

 fully painted upon guide boards, and thus a 

 traveller will be materially helped in finding 

 a house to which he has been directed. 



The idea of naming all our public roads 

 with suitable names painted on guide posts 

 at the cross roads is surely most commenda- 

 ble, and this much might easily be carried 

 out, even if our authorities are not prepared 

 to follow out the plan in its details. Then, 

 if every homestead were named by the owner, 

 and the name placed at some prominent cor- 

 ner, the interest of a drive through the 

 country would be much heightened, and 

 great convenience afibrded to strangers. 



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THE GOVER.'^OR WOOD CHERRY. 



Sir, — I see in the July number of the Hor- 

 ticulturist a print of the Governor Wood 

 cherry, and you speak of it as a profitable 

 variety. I find it an excellent cherry, but 

 we can't keep off the cherry birds or wax- 

 wings as sorrie call them. They come on here 

 in flocks as soon as the fruit begin to color, 

 about half its size, so that it is almosfim- 

 possible to get a good cherry to eat. You 



surely must not be troubled much with the 

 pest at Maplehurst, or what metftod do you 

 take to preserve the fruit from their ravages? 

 We may keep on shooting them, in a short 

 time after they are as thick as ever. They 

 are so bold they will actually come and pick 

 the cherries on the same trees with us. I 

 find the Fiockport Biggareau a very fine,solid 

 cherry, and at the time of their ripening we 

 are not troubled with the birds. — W. Hick, 

 God eric ft, Out. 



