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Bssity of using such packages. All parties agn 

 5 to the matter of expediency ; and, as these cond 

 I this same difference have now existed for sever; 

 e retail grocers, who distribute the largest part i 

 s in question, have concluded that the time for actic 

 e, and have accordingly decided that on and afti 

 5, 1892, they will refuse to buy any berries, the pric 

 1 does not include the non-returnable package, 

 notify you thus early of our action in order that yc 



-operate with us, so that when the time arrives to pi 

 ution in practice, there will be no ill feeling arousei 

 our differences may be settled amicably." 



departure was too sudden 

 has exercised a useful influence in discouraging the harmful 

 practice of returning fruit packages to growers for further use 

 A bill passed the New J.-: \ Assembly early in the year 



at the top and shall hold just half a bushel. Every basket 

 must be stamped "Standard, N. J." 



_ The recent striking investigations upon the natural polluue 



V^Card™ S m mr 5 SUmme UP aS 



"The investigations made by M. B. Waite, of the United 



presented before the Western New York Horticultural Society, 

 have led to some interesting and valuable conclusions. It has 

 long been a mystery why certain trees and orchards, growing 



yield satisfactory crops of fruit ; and these studies suggest 

 what may prove a solution in many cases. The point which 

 Mr. Waite tried to determine was the efficiency of the pollen 

 of fruit-trees on the pistils of the same variety, and his ex- 

 periments covered trials on the stigma of the same flower, on 

 another flower of the same cluster, on one of a different 

 cluster on the same tree, and on those of different trees. 

 The study of the effect on the ovule of the same flower, and 



