642 
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GARDENERS’ 
total crop (including farm consumption, c: stock, 
and fruit fed to animals, or allowed to rot on the 
ground), it would seem that the crop db 4 — is 
about 16 per cent. larger than that of 1889, and 
eat ms that of last year by about the same 
meas 
The. puel in the 3 States of America in 
е census, in 1894 a s deter- 
rity placing such detailed eati record, is 
presented in the following stateme 
State. | 1895 | 1894 | 1889. 
Bushels. Bushels, Bushels 
b 790, 1,980,000 | 1,228,000 
New Hampshire „| 985,000 | 1,974,000 | 1,313,000 
S uu 550,000 946,000 505, 
usetts : 858,000 | 1,320,000 616,000 
Connecticut У 785,000 990,000 189,000 
New York .— | 6,375,000 | 5,918,000 | 3,398,000 
Pennsylvania . | 5,550,000 4,264,000 3,021,000 
dee „„ 6,450,000 | 2,871,000 | 5,515,000 
Michigan . | 3,750,000 | 5,815,000 | 5,261,000 
dia 3,307,000 | 1,086, ‚514, 
Illinois... 3,792,000 1,991, „840, 
issou „ | 3,804, 1,974,000 | 3,479, 
All others 28,400,000 | 26,500,C00 | 24,694,000 
Total 66,258,000 | 57,629,000 | 57,242,000 
| 
п examination of this table shows that the New 
en crop this year is little more than half that 
of 1894, and smaller than 8 In New York and 
Pennsylvania it is а third larger than last year, and 
double that of 1889, The Ohio. je is two and а 
quarter times larger t year, while the 
as 
nearly — in the We ite: t 
these three States, however, VEIT slightly exceeds 
their Sant in 1889, 
Тнк CANADIAN SITUATION, 
whole, has not been favoured with an 
с 
m, e Erie 
and Huron counties "ps and A —— ta TE 
This im n on, which usually has a liberal 
surplus for shipment, eady marketed a con- 
siderable of their available crop. Down the 
part 
St. Lawrence river Apples. are not grown so largely 
port purposes, 
will стер the movement of any considerab'e 
md of Canadian fruit across the 
Annapolis valley, the Apple-growing 
Scotia, а fairly good crop has been 
harvested, including both autumn and winter varie- 
ties, the latter being fine in quality, and adapted to 
the export trade i 
as England was well supplied 
with home-grown uid continental 8 
8 ce 
iu. SURPLUS or ArrrEs, 
States absorbed much of the surplus of those where 
he yield was liberal. 
а But this year the crop is more evenly distributed, 
and it is an exception rather 2 the rule to find à 
State with & positive deficienc 
Turning to the output on — account, this ma) 
amount to more as the season wears away. England 
is about the only foreign customer that Am erica 
ate 1 very is supplied with 
в, and from. the 
his ,h 
once out of the way should n ex 
Lies to 1 more freely to England. Latest advices 
report an increased interest in leading English and 
Scotch Mirka with an outlook for better figures. 
Showing the drafts made upon the various surplus 
mer for British consumption is the following 
table 
1 Imports M in bushels in 1894, 
United States „.. 1,441,657 
erma . vos 50,49 
Holland ... Я 504 740 
Belgium 1,160 923 
ranc 509,537 
Portugal . 64,567 
Italy T 7.775 
Channel Island, e. Ss a 7,199 
Australas i s „ — 195,904 
Canada ... ie Ж we BOSE 
Other Countries... ^ 3,958 
Total 4 968,669 
There is just now a severe siting of 8 T 
the range of prices is very wi dard vari 
of winter fruit, such as Baldwin, Greening, b 
Ben Davis, &c., are going rapidly into cold storage, 
some of the best posted and largest growers advising 
not to accept present quotations, "This, too, in spite 
of the fact that vast quantities of soft stock have 
either been sold for cider purposes at from 5 to 10 
месе. E bushel, or else permitted to rot on the 
m 
as the crop is, 16 is certainly much less v еч. 
assured before the trees began to drop so badly. 
J. J. Willis, Harpenden, 
PARIS, 
— — 
MICROSPATHA GUINEENSIS, 
Оотттултовз know this dwarf Aroid best under the 
name of Nephthytis liberica (N. E. Brown, in Gar- 
deners’ Oh ronicle, June 18, 1881, р. 790), We mention 
in whieh the orange- coloured berries are produced, 
T are borne in such numbers that the plant is at 
this season very ornamental. tries are clus- 
tered, about the siz rm of а small 
Olive, and of a bright dier or orange colour, At 
the Jardin des Plantes we recently observed the use 
made of this plant for ornamental purposes 
AMPHITECNA NIGRIPES.* 
This highly curious Bignoniad or Crescentiad has 
lately been in flower in 2 Paris Jardin des Plantes. 
It has an erect stem, glabrous entire 
leaves, and bears байи. of yellowihegren flowers 
ood, Each flower is about an inch 
long, with & short calyx, 5 into two boat- 
shaped lar tubular corolla, con- 
tracted in the on one side below the 
four-five parted limb. 
CHRONICLE. 
[Хоткмвав $0, 1895, 
CAMPTOSEMA ERYTHRONIOIDES,* 
handsome stove shrub, with pinnate 
ovate lanceolate segments, with clusters Of тозу 
flowers near the apex of the branches, 
described and figured by Benth 
ТрвїА COLUMNARIA.T 
his plant in the Kew Index ів ref 
as much t 
figure of Idria cited has a ly unbranched, 
columnar stem, with atalked spikes of ilo 
near the summit, The plant in the 
was notin flower, = that its identity T à ai 
plant is uncertai is highly 
remarkable, M. Т. Л 
HARDY PLANTS AT COLLOONEI. 
shrub (see Gardeners’ Ce Fe bee ri 1884, 
fig. 149), has flowered at this place for the first time 
this year, It has proved quite hardy, having with- 
iB 
ГЕ 
e bran 
hope now that it is — established it will bloom 
i ow 
and are of а deep lavender colour. 
CLERODENDRON TRICHOTOMUM. 
ns m — here this 2 
previou 
harp frosts setting in, in October, It ü 
to 
escam diem where и thrives, “л ens flowers 
wh 
standing near it flowered profusely this autumn. 
Tupa FEUILLEL . | 
is made а grand show in the herbae eous borden, 
with it beautiful spikes of red Satria ik flowers, | 
of manure-water at the root W 
peng Increase is by division of the ron 
and from 
' HyPRRICUM BEPTANS. | 
For covering a slope or et — ШЫ 
moderate depth of sandy loa affor : 
this is one of the prettiest subjects E know e 
asil 
from zen. 
have grown the plant in an Gn ке E 
raised mounds of е soil, and even in this min К 
is attractive. А few stones placed 1 the 
shoots keep them he pe free fro 
Н. MosgRIANUM &. d 
s isa m нь Me 2 peg p snm | 
& lon time 
Thi 
or border, lasting in flowe 
It is an ereet- growing Karte biu, i is; 
LAMIUM AUREUM 
Is a useful plant for covering a 
as its name implies, it is a veer en 
- thought highly of here, and is & кы 
ork plant where Dutch bulbs, &c. 876 
The plant likes full exposure. 
TIARELLA CORDIFOLIA 1 
Is an old favourite, and one of the T- » e 
covering a large area in a short ; 
* Baillon in pod drm UD p. 464, fi 
" g. 99, as 
centia; see also Miers in ans, Linn, Soc., xxvi. (1868), 157 
nomen genericum tantu аг" 
m in Martius’ Flora Bra. siliensis, x 
* Bentham 
Acad,, ii, met 
1 Kellogg s Calif. 
Kewensi, t. 1 
