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/ ORGHRRDfefl GARDEN \ 
November, 1890. 
©RCHARD^§ARDEN 
AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY JOUR- 
NAL OF HORTICULTURE. 
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LITTLE SILVER, N. J., NOV., 1890. 
CONTENTS. 
Berry Patch. Hints for the Month— The Crandall 
Currant — Ladies’ Pine Strawberry — Matted 
Rows versus Hills— Strawberries in Pennsylva- 
nia 193 
Biographical. Prof. W. F. Massey 197 
Books Received 197 
Flower Garden. The Fuchsia— Plants for Winter 
Blooming— Floral Notes 198, 199 
P*RTTTT HT A RTF 1Q7 
Fungi. Bean Rust— Beet Rust... 7.7/. . 7/. '. '.'.200, 201 
Household. The Health of the Household— U. S. 
Mail— What Shall we Make ?— Games — The 
Thanksgiving Dinner— Seasonable Recipes . 201. 202 
Insects. The Bean Weevil— The White Ihne Saw- 
fly 195 
Orchard— Seasonable Suggestions— The Champion 
Peach— Orchard Notings — Seedling Fruits — 
Shiawassee Beauty— The Green Fameuse— Jap- 
anese Plums 191, 192 
Premium List 189, 190 
Vegetable Garden. November Work — Storing 
Celery for Winter 199. 200 
Vineyard. November Notings — New Seedling 
Grapes— Grafting Vines to Other Sorts— Keep- 
ing Grapes 191 
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ber missed is a number lost. 
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Winter Work. 
The season is at hand when out-door work 
relaxes its hold upon us and gives us in- 
creasing leisure. When winter sets in and 
the ground is frozen there is opportunity 
for the fruitgrower and gardener to give a 
good portion of his time to work no less 
important than the out-door cultivation of 
his crops, viz., the adding to his store of 
knowledge by study and review of the past 
season’s operations, of results obtained by 
other growers, and in reading and digesting 
the reports of horticultural societies and 
experiment stations, work which, owing to 
pressing calls, has been neglected during 
the season of out-door operations. The 
back numbers of the horticultural journals 
may also be gone over again to considerable 
advantage. This line of work, togJther 
with the planning and consideration for 
another season, will prove profitable and 
enable one to pass a well-spent winter. 
It is with much regret that we learn of 
the resignation of Mr E. Williams from the 
secretaryship of the New Jersey State 
Horticultural Society, on account of ill- 
health. Mr Williams has served the Society 
for many years in that office with a zeal and 
fidelity seldom equalled, and his retirement 
will be a serious loss to the fruitgrowers of 
the State. At the same time we sincerely 
hope that his release from these duties will 
enable him to regain his health and vigor. 
If you are not a subscriber to Orchard & 
Garden send in your name aud fifty cents at 
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let your subscription run out. 
Our Premiums to Club Raisers. 
We call attention to a few premiums of 
trees and plants offered this month to those 
who raise clubs for Orchard & Garden. 
Other and equally desirable premiums will 
be offered next month. We offer trees and 
plants largely for the reason that they are 
acceptable premiums to horticulturists and 
we are enabled to make very liberal 
offers indeed. We shall also offer premiums 
of other things later. Just look over the 
list of choice trees and plants offered in this 
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three, four or five new subscribers at fifty 
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ent. Remember, all the premiums offered 
in this number are sent postpaid. No charges 
to pay when goods are received. Get up 
clubs now and plant the stock this fall. We 
send the premiums promptly upon receipt 
of the subscriptions. 
Cheap Plants. 
It is said that Cuthbert is no longer the 
reliable raspberry that it once was and that 
it is rapidly deteriorating. Especially do 
we hear this complaint from the growers 
in the Hudson River fruit valley. The 
trouble seems to us to be that growers are 
altogether too careless of the quality of the 
plants they use and that too often it is the 
price of plants that is considered rather than 
their quality. Plants are taken from a 
neighbor’s old and used-up patch because 
they cost little or nothing and never was 
there a clearer instance of being “penny 
wise and pound foolish.” There are few 
things that should concern a fruit grower 
so nearly as the source of the trees and 
plants he puts out, which he cultivates and 
cares for a long time (in the case of the for- 
mer, many years) before he gets any returns 
from them and for which results he has to 
depend upon the quality and purity of the 
stock he buys. A mistaken idea of econo- 
my is therefore likely to prove costly and 
so-called “cheap plants” are often dear at 
any price. 
Mr. Smith of Wis., who has become cele- 
brated for his succesful gardening in gener- 
al and particularly for his fine Wilson 
strawberries, has followed a system of prop- 
agation that has given him a strain of the 
Wilson strawberry equal to that old variety 
in its palmiest days, now at a time when it 
has been generally discarded as worthless 
and “run out,” and this has been attained 
by simply taking plants from young beds 
that have never borne fruit and so on each 
year. Had he retained plants for propaga- 
tion of the variety from old bearing beds 
just before turning them under, after the 
manner of many growers, he too, would 
long ago have abandoned the Wilson as old 
and “runout.” < 
Tariff Changes on Nursery Stock. 
The McKinley bill makes certain changes 
that will be likely to materially effect the 
nursery business of this country. On plants, 
trees, shrubs and vines of all kinds known 
as nursery stock, which were formerly ad- 
mitted free, there is now imposed a duty 
of twenty per cent ad valorem. Bulbs and 
bulbous roots have the former duty of twen- 
ty per cent removed and are now on the 
free list. Flowering plants “used for forc- 
ing under glass for cut flowers or decora- 
tive purposes” are still admitted free, but 
greenhouse plants are classed as nursery 
stock and subject to the duty of twenty per 
cent. Seeds, with some exceptions, are 
still taxed twenty per cent. The florist will 
be benefited by the retention of the duty, 
but to nurserymen the tax of twenty per 
cent is not especially favorable. 
You cannot very easily make a more useful 
present to a friend icho is horticulturally 
inclined, than by giving him a year's subscrip- 
tion to Orchard and Garden. 
A remarkable instance of rapid propaga- 
tion is furnished by the Huntsville Nurser- 
ies. They purchased 100 pear trees in the 
fall of 1889. These trees were one year old 
from the bud, four to five feet high and 
more or less branched. The trees w T ere cut 
down to near the bud, and the wood pre- 
served in a dormant state until spring, when 
they were inserted as “spring buds” in. 
strong pear stocks, one year transplanted. 
This wood produced 3250 buds, of which 
3019 grew. The growing buds were pinched 
back to the height of 8 inches, which in- 
duced them to branch freely. From these 
young trees were cut and inserted over 
65,000 buds, which, they say, are now well 
taken, and promise to make handsome trees 
for the fall of 1891. 
The American Wild Flower Club. 
This Society is doing a good work. The 
rapid disappearance of our beautiful native 
flora has become a subject of national agi- 
tation and botanists are giving it consider- 
able attention. It concerns all of us that 
