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December, 1890. 
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LITTLE SILVER, N. J.. DEC.. 1890. 
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Berry Patch. New Blackcap Raspberry, Lovett— 
Strawberries in Hills— Notes from Mass. Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station — Small Fruits iu 
Missouri 205, 210 
Biographical. Dr. T. H. Hoskins 215 
Clubbing List 221 
Flower Garden Floral Notes -New Carnation, 
Isabel 219, 222 
Fungi. PowderyMildew of the Cherry— Treatment 
of Anlhracnose of the Vine— Rose-leaf Blight— 
Beet-leaf Blieht 210 211 
Household. Apples— Suggestions for Christmas— 
To Make New out of Old— A Magazine Cover— 
A Pretty Photograph Case— Acceptable Gifts— 
A Delicious Stew— An English Christmas Plum 
Pudding— How to Cure Meat— Christmas Dec- 
orations— French Polish for Boots and Shoes 
220 , 221 
Insects. The Snowy Tree Cricket— Cockroaches— 
Plant Lice— A New Wheat Pest 217, 218 
Orchard. December in the Orchard— Whole Root 
versus Piece Root Grafts— Russian Apples — 
Singular Prejudgment— Winter Russians— 
Some Keeping Russian Apples— Spraying Fruit 
Trees— Ex; eriments with Arsenites— Apples 
for the Suuth 212, 213 
Vegetable Garden. Work for the Month— Notes 
on Vegetables in 1890— Southern Grown Late 
Potatoes— Pears, Early and Late— Promising 
Potatoes— Testing Tomatoes— An Experiment 
with Corn 2H, 21 
Vineyard. Winter Work— Layered Vines for Va- 
cant Spaces— Influence of Stock on Cion— Some 
Notes on the November Number 218, 219 
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Horticulture at the World’s Fair 
We learn that it is the intention of the 
Commissioners to merge the Horticultural 
with the Agricultural Department at the 
coming World’s Fair at Chicago. Against 
such absurd and injurious action we do 
earnestly and heartily protest. There is 
neither sense nor justice in it. With all due 
respect to the noble and honored calling of 
Agriculture we beg to remark that the dif- 
ference is a wide one between it and horti- 
culture, and we doubt the intelligence of 
those who would class with prize cattle and 
fat hogs, such superior products as delicate 
flowers and luscious fruit. At the Centen- 
nial Exposition at Philadelphia, Horticul 
ture, standing alone, gavt a very good 
account of herself, if we remember aright 
and she certainly has made some progress 
since that time. Should the Commissioners 
persist in their rash proposition it will show 
them to be very ignorant of the vast inter- 
ests of horticulturists in general, to say 
nothing of the great and important trade of 
the florists, nurserymen and seedsmen, and 
they may rest assured that unless properly 
classed and provided with suitable exhibi 
tion quarters the horticultural display w ill 
be a failure. The feeling among the florists 
especially is very strong, and if they are to 
he placed among the farmers a very large 
number of them will be apt to stay at home 
The horticulturists of this country respect 
fully ask of the World's Fair Commissioners 
that a distinct and separate Horticultural 
Department be provided for at the forth 
coming Exhibition in 1«93, to the end that 
a proper and effective representation may 
be made at that time. 
Our Clubbing List. 
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coming year to other journals can save 
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by ordering them through us. See list on 
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us will save several lo the different papers. 
The immense amount of chrysanthemum 
blooms poured into the city markets of late 
have caused prices to be low, and, moreover, 
they do not sell as well as in former seasons. 
The demand for roses has, in consequence, 
been quite poor and, for a time, prices for 
them dropped considerably. 
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The Experiment Station Record. 
The agricultural experiment stations of 
the country, over fifty in number, issue an- 
nually some three hundred bulletins and 
reports of from four to two hundred and 
fifty pages each. Very few people have 
access to all these publications, and fewer 
still can afford the time required to note 
the character and results of the experiments 
they describe. Those who find it desirable 
to keep pace with the progress of agricul- 
tural experimentation will find a condensed 
record of all station work in the Experi- 
ment Station Record, issued by the United 
States Department of Agriculture. 
Prof J. B. Smith, of Rutgers College, N. 
J., states that in collecting on the Juneber- 
ry, he found that many of the half-grown 
berries had the peculiar crescent mark in- 
dicating curculio. A little beating about 
gave him a number of specimens of the 
mature beetle, so that there was no doubt 
as to the true culprit. 
The Population of the United States — 
1 890 . 
The Census Bulletin, just issued, furnish- 
es an official compilation and tabulation 
of results of the recent census, and many 
ma> find considerable food for thought in 
the facts there presented. From it we 
learn that the population of the United 
States on June 1, 1890, as show n by the first 
count of persons and families, exclusive of 
white persons in Indian Territory, Indians 
on reservations, and Alaska, was 62,480,540. 
In 1880 the population was 50,155,783. The 
absolute increase of the population in the 
ten years intervening was 12,324,757, and 
the percentage of increase was 24.57. In 
1870 the population was given as 38,558,371. 
According to these figures the absolute in- 
crease in the decade between 1870 and 1880 
was 11,597 412, and the percentage of in- 
crease was 30.08. Upon their face these 
figures show that the population has in- 
