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September, 1889. 
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Facts for Readers. 
Orchard & Garden gives more practical 
information on fruit and vegetable growing 
for the cost of its subscription than does 
any other journal published. Its writers 
are all practical horticulturists. It gives 
just such information as practical growers 
will read, appreciate, and receive benefit 
from. No gardener or fruit-grower — be he 
novice or the most experienced — can afford 
to be without it. 
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better by sending us names of their friends 
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Facts for Advertisers. 
As an advertising medium for those seek- 
ing trade among fruit-growers, gardeners 
and those having country homes, there is 
none better in the United States. It reach- 
es a class of solid, substantial people — pro- 
gressive and enterprising — and is read 
thoroughly from cover to cover. Its num- 
bers are preserved from month to month 
and year to year thus keeping its advertise- 
ments before its readers. 
With this number of Orchard & Garden 
is issued a supplement which we send to 
our readers for information concerning their 
treatment of Grape Rot and Mildew the 
past summer, and its results. We earnestly 
desire all who have taken part in such work 
to reply to the several enquiries and send it 
to us as soon as possible. 
Still Another. 
With this issue of Orchard & Garden 
we merge The New England Florist, former- 
ly published at Canton, Me., which has been 
purchased and absorbed by Orchard & Gar- 
den, and its subscribers will receive this pa- 
per in its stead in the future. We take this 
opportunity of advising them of the change 
and hope that they will give Orchard & 
Garden their hearty and earnest support. 
Prof. Lyon in the Rural New Yorker pro- 
nounces the Erie and Lawton blackberries 
not alike. See page 176 of this number of 
O. & G. The editor of the R. N. Y., con- 
siders the Erie a hardier variety. We have 
grown these varieties for some time and 
noted them carefully. While there is a 
similarity in habit of growth and also in 
fruit, a careful comparison will show them 
to be distinct. In season of ripening the 
Erie is much earlier than Lawton, the canes 
are more vigorous in growth and very much 
hardier. 
Fruit-growers and farmers who cannot 
spend much time or money in ornamenting 
their groimds will obtain the best results 
from a lawn planted with trees, a few 
shrubs grouped judiciously and properly and 
some beds filled with perennial flower, s. The 
latter must not be too conspicuous but rath- 
er on one side, and the aim should be to pre- 
sent an unbroken stretch of sward sweep- 
ing up to the house. For this reason avoid 
breaking it by walks or brilliant flower beds 
injudiciously placed. A few well chosen 
shrubs and a good assortment of hardy her- 
bacious plants will produce a charming ef- 
fect at very little expense and which will 
require a very slight expenditure of time or 
labor to keep in good order. Now is a good 
time to start it. 
In the choice of a “national flower” for 
the United States which has been so largely 
discussed in the press it seems to us that a 
great omission has been made in overlook- 
ing the claims of the Indian Corn or Maize 
to that honor. The most important merit 
it possesses in this light is one that is entire- 
ly lacking in the case of the three most 
popular candidates, the Golden-rod, May- 
flower and Kalmia or Mountain Laurel, viz: 
such individuality as will adapt it to the 
artist or designer’s purpose, and which en- 
ables it to be placed upon anything and any- 
where with the certainty of immediate rec- 
ognition. The Indian Corn possesses, how- 
ever, other merits which make it a desira- 
ble choice for the national flower. No one 
can deny that it is truly American. It is 
universal. The plant is stately and grand, 
“the corn in the ear” beautiful, and both 
admirably adapted to the uses to which a 
national flower would be put Orchard & 
Garden casts its vote for the Indian Corn. 
The Annan Nurseries, Annan Scotlant, 
AUGUST !2th, 1889. 
(Jrcharil andUaidm Just come and we note that 
subscription Is due. Please keep sending It. It isa de- 
lightfully Interesting paper and lull of the most useful 
Information, Jonn Palmer & Son. 
Mr. W. F. Massey has been appointed 
professor of horticulture, arboriculture and 
botany in the College of Agriculture and 
the Mechanic Arts, recently organized at 
Raleigh, N. C. 
There are many indications that Potato 
Rot is prevalent this season. Indeed the 
season, in many parts, lias been exceeding- 
ly favorable to the development of the fun- 
gus which finds its favoring conditions in 
abundant moisture and warm, close weath- 
er. A timely bulletin on this subject by 
Prof. Byron D. Halsted, has just been is- 
sued by the N. J. Agricultural College Ex- 
periment Station which gives some whole- 
some hints regarding the keeping of the po- 
tatoes, since we learn that “the loss from 
the decay of the tubers after harvesting 
the crop may possibly be more than that 
occurring in the field.” The infected vines 
should, in all cases, be raked into heaps and 
burned 1 The dug tubers are to be left to 
dry thoroughly and then the sound ones 
stored in a dry, cool place, with a good cir- 
culation of fresh air. A damp, warm, close 
cellar favors the growth of the Rot. It is 
recommended to apply a sprinkling of air- 
slacked lime (a handful or so per bushel) 
over the potatoes as a preventive and to re- 
move all decayed tubers as soon as noticed. 
Pear Leaf Bllglit and the Apple Pow- 
dery Mildew. 
Nurserymen need not be told the extent 
of the losses inflicted by the above fruit tree 
diseases. They are co-extensive with the 
region where apples and pears are grown. 
In regard to the latter, the French seedlings 
hitherto depended on as proof against the 
disease, having succumbed to its attacks, 
compelling the nurserymen to seek seed- 
lings of the Japan pear for propagation, any 
efficacious and not too costly remedy will 
be warmly welcomed. 
Prof. B. T. Galloway, Chief of theSection 
of Vegetable Pathology, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, has recently succeeded, as 
the result of practical experiments, in pro- 
viding a remedy which he feels justified in 
recommending to the public as both effica- 
cious and economical. The remedy consists 
of the application of a Fungicide with an 
appliance by which 50,000 plants were spray- 
ed in a day and a half at a cost, not includ- 
ing labor, of $4.75 for each application, five 
being required to secure good results. 
Experiments of a similar nature were car- 
ried on in the same nurseries by which a 
block of some 200,000 apple seedlings affect- 
ed by the Powdery Mildew, was treated 
with a preparation at a total cost of not ex- 
cieding 2 cents per 1,000 trees. The results 
in this case also have proved highly satis- 
factory and full details of both experiments 
will be found in Circular No. 8 of the Section 
of Vegetable Pathology, issued by Prof. 
Galloway, and which will be ready for dis- 
tribution in a few Jays. Those desiring to 
receive a copy should send in their names 
without delay. 
