Thi; cactus overjlow of this 

 issue will find a place in the Sep- 

 tember number. Among other iti- 

 teresting matter, A. Blanc, of 

 tKi^^Aj ' Jl; 1 Philadelphia, the largest cactus 



grower in the ivorld, 7vill contrib- 

 ute an article which 'will give 

 special attention to variation of cactuses under culture. 

 The strawberry reports of the season will also he full, and 

 an especial feature will be a discussion on the present merits 

 of the Wilson strawberry . An unusually interesting il- 

 histrated leader ivill talk about farmiiig and gardening in 

 1840 and i8qo. 



The importation of " castaneas " or Brazil nuts has 

 been light this year owing to a short crop. 



The continued late rains in Florida are improving 

 orange crop prospects. 



The acreage devoted to melons in Missouri is said to 

 be somewhat less than last year. 



Hot and heavy winds have seriously damaged the 

 lemon crop of Sicily. 



The March freeze in the South not only destroyed 

 fruit buds, but it seriously injured trees in many places. 



The first shipment of deciduous-leaved fruit from 

 California to the east this year was a car-load of Black 

 Tartarian cherries sent on May 17th from Sacramento 

 to Chicago. 



A Chicago firm has recently contracted for the entire 

 crop of fruit on the famous Ranco Chicho in California, 

 owned by General Bidwell. There are about 200 acres 

 of grapes and 1,250 of orchards. 



While there is a much larger acreage of tomatoes in 

 Southern Illinois than was ever grown before, the vines 

 are not well set to fruit. Early varieties are ripening 

 and a few Acmes are ready for market. A strike on the 

 Illinois Central railroad, however, completely shut us 

 out of the market for a time. — Fruit-Groiucrs' Journal. 



The Increase of the exportation of apples from Nova 

 Scotia to England is something quite remarkable. Ac- 

 cording to Mr. Johnson, statistician of the Dominion of 

 Canada, this export, which in 1868 was but $44,000, 

 reached in 1888, 1700,000. At the same time the in- 

 crease in the quantity of apples annually sent to the 

 United States was from $35,000 to 1400,000. 



The Extension of grape growing in Canada is quite 

 remarkable. Not only in Ontario, but down the St. Law- 

 rence river on both banks, as far as Montreal, and below, 

 grape-growing as a business is extending itself, and fruit 

 is being produced which is preferred to that brought from 

 the southward. It is a fact that on the upper St. Law- 

 rence and about the north end of Lake Champlain, better 

 grapes are produced, and the fruit is a surer crop, than 

 m western Massachusetts. 



The American Seed Trade Association met at Sara- 

 toga Springs, June loth and iith. Eighteen states were 

 represented among the delegates. A committee was 

 appointed to visit Washington in the interest of the 

 tariff on seeds and supplies, and another to take into 

 consideration the matter of a horticultural exhibition at 

 the World's Fair. The following are the officers for the 

 ensuing year ; Albert McCullough, Cincinnati, presi- 

 dent ; W. A. Burpee, Philadelphia, vice president ; Z. 

 DeForest Ely, Philadelphia, second vice president ; 

 John Fottler, Boston, secretary and treasurer : W. W. 

 Rawson, Boston, assistant secretary ; H. W. Johnson, 

 William Meggat, J. C. Vaughan, J. H. Allen and T. W. 

 Wood, executive committee. 



Captain John Donnel Smith, of Baltimore, who has 

 explored Guatemala in the interest of botanical science, 

 declares that the regions between Guatemala and Mexico 

 are probably the least explored of any on the North 

 American continent. 



The Illinois State Horticultural Society holds its next 

 annual meeting at Cairo in December, opening on the 

 gth. The Ohio atld Mississippi Valley Horticultural 

 Society holds its annual meeting on the preceding day 

 in the same place. 



The present census enumeration is particularly com- 

 plete in agricultural and horticultural matters. Some 

 topics of horticultural interest are to be made the sub- 

 ject of special reports, but the general schedules contain 

 the following questions, which have been asked of every 

 commercial grower before this time, but which are 

 equally interesting to all others : Onions : Field crop 

 — number of acres, bushels produced and sold, and value. 

 Potatoes : Sweet and Irish, bushels produced and sold. 

 Market gardens and small fruits : Number of acres in 

 vegetables, blackberries, cranberries, raspberries, straw- 



