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December, 1889. 
ORGHRRD 
AND 
GARDEN 
©RCHARD^@ARDEN 
AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY JOUR- 
NAL OF HORTICULTURE. 
Devoted exclusively to the Interest of the American 
Orchard, Vineyard, Fruit, Vegetable and 
Flower Garden. 
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LITTLE SILVER, N. J., DEC., 1889. 
A Word to Onr Friends. 
Those among our readers t oho are pleased 
with Orchard and Garden — and we trust 
that they all are — and who think it worth the 
very low price we ask for it, can do us very 
substantial service during this subscription 
season by recommending it to their friends 
and neighbors who are not already sub- 
scribers. Orchard and Garden aims at 
benefiting all who receive it ; its articles are 
original and practical; its tone is pure. The 
price is so loro that there are none too poor to 
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of every person throughout the country in- 
terested in Horticulture, and we ask our 
friends to assist us in this endeavor. Do it 
now kind friends. This is the season when 
people select their papers for the coming year. 
Be sure that your friends include Orchard 
and Garden in their lists. 
If you will kindly send us the addresses of 
those you think ought to have it, we will gladly 
send them specimen copies free of charge. 
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Greeting. 
This is the time of all others when feelings 
of good cheer come to the surface, and find 
hearty expression in greetings of “A Merry 
Christmas” and “ A Happy New Year” to 
all ; and this is the message that Orchard 
and Garden heartily sends to its readers, 
both great and small. Another year has 
passed in pleasant relations with them and, 
we hope, to their edification and enjoy- 
ment. With good will toward them we 
feel sure of their good will toward us. 
It is a season, too, for presents ; and we 
can think of no more suitable present just 
now than a one or two years’ subscription 
to Orchard ant Garden. For so small a 
sum. in what other way can you do so 
much good ? 

The Circular sent out in September by 
Orchard and Garden, requesting infor- 
mation regarding the Black-rot of the grape 
during the past season has well served its 
purpose and has been successful in bring- 
ing the desired information. Replies have 
been received in great numbers from all 
over the continent and the facts gathered 
from a careful study of them must be 
highly gratifying to our Fungi editor, Prof. 
F. Lamson Scribner, whose instructions 
for treatment seem to have been so very 
generally followed. The replies indicate, 
too, that our Fungi department is intelli- 
gently and attentively read by our sub- 
scribers and not merely skimmed or en- 
tirely skipped as is often the case in many 
journals where scientific subjects occur, 
and this may, perhaps, be attributed to the 
popular and interesting style in which they 
are treated. Prof. Scribner sums up the 
results of the enquiry on page 235 of this 
issue and follows with extracts from some 
of the replies. Do not fail to read them. 
The number of replies is so large that space 
permits us to give extracts from but a few 
of them and these will be continued in the 
January number. None of our grape grow- 
ing readers can afford to miss the Fungi 
department. We thank our friends for 
their numerous and prompt replies to the 
circular. 
Do not fail to renew your subscription. 
We want our old friends to remain with us 
even more than we want new subscribers. 
Orchard and Garden Binders. 
Our subscribers will now feel the need of 
a binder for keeping together for reference 
the volume of Orchard and Garden now 
ended. The complete index we send out 
with this issue renders it still more valu- 
able. In our Premium List may be found 
an illustration and description of a con- 
venient binder that we offer as a premium 
to those sending us two subscribers. Or 
we will mail it postpaid for fifty cents. 
November 18th, 1889 
My subscription to Orchard and Garden expired 
1st of October. I enclose 16 cents In stamps to have It 
sent to the end of the year, and $1.00 for a new start 
for two years more. 
I esteem the little paper so highly that I cannot 
think of letting it drop. It Is certainly the best kind 
of guide and adviser In all that It undertakes to do, 
and many a hint given Is of ten times more value than 
the yearly charge.— E. J. Alexander, Luzerne Co., Pa. 
It is not very long ago that the horticul- 
turists of the country, by persistent effort, 
secured a law putting seeds, plants, bulbs 
and cions in the third class at the rate of 
one cent for each two ounces or fraction 
thereof. This reduction was greatly needed 
and it had been long demanded. Now, we 
learn, Postmaster-general Wanamaker fa- 
vors the abolition of fourth-class matter arid 
the carrying of all merchandise at the third 
class rate. Such a happy result is not like- 
ly to be attained without some opposition 
from the local merchants and a big fight on 
the part of the huge Express Companies 
that now monopolize this traffic. To suc- 
cessfully combat the efforts that will be 
made to prevent such a change the people 
must make themselves heard persistently 
and in no uncertain tone. Let all who are 
interested write immediately to their sena- 
tors and representatives in Congress in fa- 
vor of this change. 
Orchard and Garden a whole year for 
half a dollar ! Can the purchasing power of 
fifty cents go further ? 
A postal law changing merchandise from 
fourth class matter to the third class rate 
will be a great boon to the public but it does 
not go far enough. The weight limit of 
single packages for third class matter is now 
four pounds. It should be extended to eight 
pounds for the greater convenience of the 
people, and especially so in that class of 
merchandise known as agricultural supplies. 
In far distant States and Territories hun- 
dreds of farmers are debarred from purchas- 
ing many necessary articles by excessive 
express charges, who would otherwise glad- 
ly" avail themselves of a reduced rate of 
postage and an eight pound limit. Reduc- 
tion of postage, as a rule, results in a steady 
increase of the mailing business, and an ex- 
tension of the weight limit is as clearly 
demanded in the interest of rural people 
and as a protection against the greed of 
transportation companies as the reduction 
of postage in merchandise. Orchard and 
Garden has alway r s urged the claim of the 
rural population to reduction of postage and 
extension of weight limit believing them to 
be a step clearly needed in the interest of 
civilization, and a concession to the people 
likely to prove profitable to all concerned. 
It will yet come, however, and the agitation 
for its passage should not cease until then. 
Orchard and Garden stops when sub- 
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from its lists but renew promptly andkeep your 
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