Mpples vs. Intemperance. — The latest cure for 

 drunkenness is to eat apples. Let a man eat enough ap- 

 ples to become seriously affected by the arsenic left from 

 spraying, and he will certainly have no reason to get 

 drunk. — Rural New- Yorker. 



Forced Garden Stuff is Worth its Price.— The gar- 

 dener who raises early stuif by working with glass is 

 surely entitled to all his produce will bring. If anybody 

 is able and willing to pay him a dollar a quart for his 

 strawberries forced under glass, it is perfectly right and 

 proper that he should take it. — Glcatiings in Bee Cul- 

 ture. 



Danger to City Trees. — Probably the most injurious 

 gas accompanying smoke from coal and rock-oil is sul- 

 phurous acid. It has been shown to injure plants if the 

 air contains but one part in 50,000. More recent experi- 

 ments make it certain that even one part in a million is 

 harmful. From the well-known abundance of sulphur 

 in American soft coal and crude petroleum, there can be 

 no reasonable doubt that in cities it occurs in sufficient 

 amount to largely account for the destruction of trees. — 

 Prof. Arlhur's Report. 



The Rockery to the Rear. — No special paths are 

 needed about flower or shrub groups. Rock-work is sel- 

 dom satisfactory, and it is only appropriate in a retired 

 portion of the grounds. Piles of shells, rocks and scoriae 

 in the front yard are sadly out of place. Heap them in 

 some back-yard shady corner, and you will find great 

 delight in transplanting among them from woods and 

 meadows an assortment of hepaticas, spring-beauties, 

 bloodroot, trilliums, bellworts, phloxes and ferns. — Prof, 

 IV. J. Beat, Mich. Ex. Station. 



Fruit-Growers and Express Companies. — One of 

 the greatest drawbacks which the grape-growers of 

 Florida must overcome is the exorbitant express rates 

 on their fruit to New York. The express companies 

 charge four cents a pound to New York from Moultrie, 

 Florida ; this, of course, takes a great deal of profit 

 from the growers. — Fruit Trade Jourytal. 



California Dried Fruit. — There should be more at. 

 tention paid to drying fruit in such a way as to keep it 

 free from dust and insect larvae, and to putting it up in 

 neat and convenient packages. If our dried fruit could 

 be warranted to carry over into another season, eastern 

 dealers would take hold of it with more confidence, and 



prices would rule better. Excessive sulphuring and 

 open-air drying are methods which might be abandoned 

 with much benefit. — Los Angeles Times. 



Early Beets and Radishes for Profit. — Break the 

 ground in fall and manure it well. Throw the soil in 

 ridges 4 feet wide with a large turning plow. This will 

 leave deep furrows between the ridges, and all surplus 

 water will find its way into them. The warmest soil 

 should be selected, and in spring these ridges can be 

 worked from four to five days earlier than soil not ridged. 

 Manure the land again in the spring, line off rows 10 

 inches apart, and sow beets and radishes alternately. As 

 soon as the plants are up, sprinkle ashes thickly over the 

 beds. Planted in this way, the radishes can be sold be- 

 fore the beets need room. I dispose of them when an 

 inch in diameter. Beets should be sold when two inches 

 in diameter. In pulling the first for market, take out 

 those which will leave needed room for the others to 

 grow. — Farm and Home. 



Proposed New Spraying- Machine. — The Mark 

 Lcine Express proposes the device shown for spraying 

 potato-vines with Bordeaux mixture. Present machines, 

 it says, are not entirely successful, because the spray is 

 not protected from the wind, which blows it to one side. 



Machine for Spraying Bordeaux Mixture. 



so that frequently some vines are not touched at all, 

 while others are completely drenched. Again, but one 

 side of the vine is sprayed, the other being neglected be- 

 cause it rests on or near the ground. For these reasons 



