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of the row and back the other, and the 
man with the pump, which throws a fine 
spray fifteen or twenty feet high, to use 
great caution and see that every part of the 
tree was reached and so thoroughly wet 
that the water would drip from the leaves. 
The first spraying was done the first and 
second of June, when the apples were about 
as large as a half-grown cherry, but I think 
it should have been done a week earlier, 
just after the bloom had dropped. The 
second application was made ten days 
later. 
From these sprayed trees, about three 
hundred in number, I gathered 500 bushels 
of apples, from sixty to seventy-five per 
cent, of which were perfect, and eighty-five 
per cent, marketable, while from the same 
number of trees in adjoining orchards, I 
did not gather a peck of perfect fruit. 
This result was astonishing to me, and I 
have hesitated to publish it, knowing how 
dangerous it is to form hasty conclusions, 
but as there is not, in all probability, anoth- 
er orchard in the county that has produced 
so much perfect fruit, there must be some 
cause for it; and after carefully looking 
over the ground, I have concluded that the 
Loudon Purple saved the fruit. 
The mixture that I used was too strong, 
and scorched the leaves somewhat. Next 
year I shall use a pound of London Pur- 
ple to three barrels of water (about 120 
gallons), and am inclined to think that even 
a weaker mixture would be just as good. 
With the cheap pump that I used, two men 
can go over a ten-acre orchard in a day. It 
therefore seems to be unnecessary for the 
orchardist to invest in high-priced machin- 
ery for the purpose.” — A. C. Hammond, 
Sec’y 111. Hort. Society. 
The Longfleld Apple. 
Though rather disappointed in the size of 
Longfield, I am very well satisfied with its 
quality, which without any resemblance, is 
quite as good as that of Fameuse; while the 
tree is much hardier, and an even earlier 
and freer producer. The fruit on my trees 
is just about the size of Fameuse, but more 
conical, with a greenish white skin, and a 
blushed cheek, — a pretty little apple that 
is even better than it looks. It is possible 
that high culture, or increased age of tree, 
will give us larger fruit, such as I have had 
specimens of from the West. 
The Longfield, like the Yellow Transpar- 
ent, seems to belong to a family having 
very close resemblances. English Pippin is 
much like it, but rather handsomer, the red 
cheek being brighter, but the quality is 
hardly distinguishable, nor does the fruit 
keep better. Good Peasant is another close 
cousin, which has not yet fruited with me, 
but which I am told, while otherwise much 
the same, is by several weeks a better keep- 
er. The tree is a good grower, but rather 
irregular, with slightly deflexed branches, 
growing closely, and needing care in form- 
ing a head. With this, they make a good 
nursery tree, which bears young and pro- 
fusely. Season about with Fameuse, or 
somewhat later. 
Tlie Antonovka Apple. 
In the Antonovka (or Antony) apple from 
Russia, we plainly have a valuable and ser- 
viceable fruit, though not so long a keeper 
as was hoped. This variety is a true iron- 
clad and a free grower in the nursery, 
forming a neat, upright tree, that in tree- 
agent language will “deliver well.” It is 
easily transplanted, grows off freely, even 
in moderately fertile soil, and requires but 
little pruning; in all these points resembling 
the popular Oldenburg. It comes to bear- 
ing quite soon enough, though it does not 
fruit in the nursery, like Wealthy and Yel- 
low Transparent. Young trees, four years 
set, usually begin to show some fruit, and 
they are well loaded by the sixth season. 
The apple resembles Grimes’ Golden, though 
with a slightly coarser appearance, and a 
little roughness of skin. In size it is a full 
medium. The form is ovate. As to its 
quality, it is a very good eating apple — not 
particularly fine flavored nor the reverse, 
moderately soft fleshed and palatable, but 
not very juicy. It is plainly a good ship- 
ping apple, and will sell as well as any yel- 
low’ apple of its season, which is about that 
of Fameuse, or a little later. This is what 
Prof. Budd calls the “King apple of the 
Steppes,” in allusion to its abundance and 
popularity in Central and Eastern Russia. 
Tlie Arabka Apple. 
Here is another “family” of Russian ap- 
ples, the so-called Arab family, variously 
named “Arab,” “Arabian,” “Arabskoe” and 
“Arabka.” The one of these introduced 
some years ago by the nursery firm of Ell- 
wanger & Barry, of Rochester, N. Y., has 
been approved by them, and is really in 
some respects a quite remarkable apple. As 
shown at the meeting of the Montreal Hor- 
ticultural Society in January, by Mr. Chas. 
Gibb, the Arabka is a large, dark red lruit, 
near the size of Alexander, but less even in 
form, being roundish, a little flattened, and 
somewhat “probulgent,” or irregular. The 
tree is very vigorous, and an early and pro- 
fuse bearer; the fruit is fair and even in 
size, a good keeper until midwinter, in Can- 
ada. Mr. Gibbs’ trees, four or five years 
set, gave him nearly a barrel each. The 
flesh of this apple is coarse and not above 
the culinary grade, but its showiness and 
productiveness w r ill make it quite as profit- 
able to grow as Alexander, at least. In 
some respects it is preferable, as it is a bet- 
ter keeper, and apparently far less frequent- 
ly injured by the codlin worm. 
Various Notes. 
To say there is a curculio-proof plum is 
to incur the contempt of almost every fruit 
grower. Yet who has tried them all? I 
have a superabundance of curculios, which 
attack and destroy all my plums but 
Mooer’s Arctic; and yet in many years they 
have not left even a single crescent mark on 
that variety, which in consequence bears 
itself to death in a few seasons. Now kill 
me, if you want to. 
Has any one given the Japan persimmons 
a fair trial on the lower James river in Vir- 
ginia? The fig, in some of its varieties at 
least, grows and fruits freely there; and 
though west of the Alleganies the north- 
ern limit of these persimmons seems fixed 
at or near the south line of Tennessee, is it 
not well worth while to give them a good 
try along the south bank of the James, be- 
tween Norfolk and Jamestown island ? 
I have never found a more profitable use 
for bean and pea straw, of which I have a 
good deal, than to apply it as a mulch and 
manure around both fruit and ornamental 
trees. It decays quite rapidly, but clings 
together so that the highest winds do not 
disturb it. When decayed, it gives as rich 
a dressing as any manure; meantime killing 
all grass and weeds. It needs renewing 
about once in three years. — T. H. Hoskins. 
Summer Pruning. - 
Pruning now should be done with the 
thumb and finger, pinching off unneces- 
sary buds and regulating the growth of the 
tree as desired. Rub off all shoots which 
will not be wanted when they grow large. 
None of their vitality should be allowed to 
go to waste in the production of unneces- 
sary limbs. 
Catarrh Cured. 
A clergyman, after years of suffering from that loath- 
some disease. Catarrh, and vainly trying every known 
remedy, at last found a recipe which completely cured 
and saved him from death. Any sufferer from this dread 
ful disease sending a self addressed stamped envelope 
to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 88 Warren St., New York City, 
will receive the recipe free of charge.— A dv. 
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