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LITTLE SILVER, N. J., JULY, 1891. 
CONTEXTS. 
Kerry Patch. July Pointers- Notes on New 
Strawberries of 1 S91 — Strawberry Plants in 
Pots— Specimen Beds on the Farm 120, 121 
Books Received 125 
Clubbing List 123 
Flower Garden. The Bouvardia— July— TheWin- 
tergreen— Amaryllis Johnsoni— Harrison’s Yel- 
low Rose — Aquilegia glandulosa— The Pitcher 
Plants 117, 118 
Horticultural Societies. Meeting of the Am- 
erican Association of Nurserymen 125 
Household. Are We Growing Sensible — Fruit 
Juices— Boys and Girls— Sparrow Farming— 
What to do with Gooseberries— The Care of 
Cellars— The Workman’s Dinner Pail— From 
our Exchanges 128, 129 
Lawn. Notes on Flowering Shrubs— Viburnums 
—The Fringe Tree— Forsytbia— Thunbergi alala 
— The Alders — Ornamental JaDan Cherries 119 
Nuts and Nut Trees. Nut Culture— The Pecan— 
The Chestnut— TheAlmond— Propagation— The 
Home of the Euglish Walnut 123 
Orchard. July in The Orchard— The Shiawassee 
Apple— Value of Leaves as Manure— Stunted 
Fruit Trees 122 
Vegetable Garden- What to Do in July and How 
to Do it— Sweet Potatoes— Turnips— Celery— 
Sal-ifv, Carrots and Beets— Beans and Squashes 
—Pickles— Late Irish Potatoes— Tomatoes— En- 
dive— Corn— Kohl Rabi— Kale— Cabbage.. 126, 127 
Vineyard. Seasonable Brieliels— Bagging Grapes 127 
The Thermometer Premium. 
Now is the time when a good thermome- 
ter proves useful. It is interesting to note 
the rise and fall of the temperature. On 
such hot days as we have experienced dur- 
ing June one is curious to learn how hot 
the weather really is, and this a reliable 
thermometer will enable one to do. Every 
reader of Orchard and Garden should 
have one of our handsome thermometers 
hanging in his hall or upon Iris porch and 
our very liberal offer on page 127 permits 
everyone to obtain one of these excellent 
and trustworthy instruments free. 
Horticulture at the World’s Fair. 
We commend to our readers the vigorous 
protest of President S. M. Emery on this 
subject at the recent meeting of nursery- 
men in Minneapolis: “The fact is patent 
that California is determined to control the 
Horticultural Department. The work of 
the Classification Committee, of which a 
member from California is chairman, is 
pathetic in its ludicrousness. That they 
assign four classes to horticulture and 
fourteen to viticulture shows the animus. 
A chief of the Horticultural Department, a 
Californian, has been appointed; his ap- 
pointment has not been confirmed — the prin- 
cipal opposition coming both from his own 
state and from the horticulturists of the 
country at large. Under his management 
and dictation we can expect the wines, 
brandies and citrus fruits of California to 
head the procession, and her dried fruits 
and flavorless orchard products to occupy 
space that rightfully should belong to the 
class of fruits that are the bone and sinew, 
so to speak, of the business. A vigorous 
protest against such folly is in order, and 
failing to secure the recognition that our 
suggestions, as the nurserymen of the 
United States, entitle us to, we ought to 
wash our hands of the entire matter.” 
Diseases of the Grape. 
Complaint continues to be heard from 
grape growers of the ravages of the Black- 
Rot and kindred diseases. Many large 
vineyardists are bagging their grapes at 
considerable expense. A great number do 
not seem to be even trying to overcome the 
disease by spraying with the sulphate of 
copper and lime preparations and, in spite 
of all that has been said and printed on the 
subject, there are not a few who do not 
know of these means. Everyone who grows 
grapes should own a copy of Scribner’s 
“Fungus Diseases of the Grape and Other 
Plants,” and learn from it the nature of these 
diseases and the best means of combating 
them. See description of this valuable book 
on page 131 of this paper, and our liberal 
premium offer of the same. Now is the 
time to get it. 
The Society of American Florists. 
We desire to call attention in time to the 
forthcoming annual meeting of this very 
excellent society in the hope that many of 
our readers may find it convenient to attend; 
we are sure they will find it profitable. 
The full programme of the meeting will be 
published in August number and it may be 
sufficient to say now that the meeting will 
be held at the Horticultural Pavilion, Toron- 
to, Canada, from August 18 to 21 inclusive. 
There will be essays on “The Future of 
Floriculture in America,” “Sub-Tropical 
Bedding,” “Carnations,” “Store Trade,” 
“Credits,” “Aquatics,” “Winter Flowering 
Plants,” “Begonias,” and short papers on 
many other pertinent subjects. There will 
also be a “Review of New Plants” and a 
carefully prepared report of the Committee 
on Nomenclature. Thus much valuable 
learning may be acquired from such a meet- 
ing of professional men, equally valuable 
to amateurs and those who are not profes- 
sional florists. Moreover the trip will be a 
pleasant recreation and Toronto is a city 
well worth a visit. There will be reduced 
railroad rates for the trip. The annual 
membership fee is $3.00, which may be re- 
mitted to the Secretary, Wm. J. Stewart, 
Boston, Mass., who will furnish pro- 
grammes, etc., upon application. 
Legislative Aid in Combating Insect 
Pests. 
The State of Massachusetts last year ap- 
propriated twenty-five thousand dollars for 
the destruction of the Gypsy Moth that is 
destroying its noble Elms. The moth com- 
missioners proved to be better politicians 
than moth destroyers, showing besides in- 
capacity for the work, and made a sorry 
and sorrowful showing for the money spent. 
The present Legislature has consequently 
placed this year’s appropriation in the 
hands of the State Board of Agriculture, 
from whom better results may be expected. 
Twenty-five thousand dollars in competent 
hands ought to give the Gypsy Moth a very 
hard tussle for life. The preliminary step 
to success is a study of the life history of 
this destructive moth, and the Board of 
Agriculture will doubtless find a professor ^ 
near by at Harvard who is already some- 
what familiar with it. In some of the 
Western States they manage the “bug” bus- 
iness better than we do. 
This reminds us that the Tent Caterpillar 
is very abundant this year in many locali- 
ties, all the result of unpardonable neglect. 
For some forty years past we and others 
have repeatedly told farmers and orchard- 
ists how easily they could rid themselves 
of this disgusting pest by destroying the 
eggs in winter. It is one of these things 
that must be constantly repeated to produce 
any good results. There must be combina- 
tion about it too. There is a bill nosv before 
a certain Legislature (and likely to pass) 
which imposes a heavy fine on any person 
who allows the Tent Caterpillar to spread 
over his trees. In a matter of this kind a 
man who is too indolent or too thoughtless 
to care for his own or his neighbor’s inter- 
ests or the common good, should be com- 
pelled to. In many places these caterpil- 
lars are at times as destructive in the flower 
garden as in the orchard. A good many 
men, it seems, have yet to learn that the 
Tent Caterpillar and the Canker Worm are 
not one and the same thing. — P. B. M. 
Horticulture for Horticulturists. 
The voice of the horticulturists of Amer- 
ica has made itself heard in the protest 
against Mr. W. S. Maxwell of California 
for chief of the horticultural department of 
the World’s Columbian Exposition, but the 
office, it would seem, is still to go to Cali- 
fornia to which state, we are told, it has 
been promised. The nomination of Mr. 
Maxwell was finally rejected by the Local 
Board of Directors, but the Director-Gener- 
al immediately nominated for the position, 
Gen. N. P. Cliipman, also of California, 
who was, however, rejected by the Nation- 
al Board of Control. Director-General Davis 
has now presented a third nomination in 
the person of William Forsyth, of California ^ 
who is a national commissioner of the expo- 
sition and, we understand, is the gentleman 
who pushed W.S. Maxwell for the place. 
This has been confirmed by the Board of 
Control but up to time of writing has not 
yet been acted upon by the Directory. 
