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dreamed of using or “ selecting ” material which could be 
seen on every hill-side in the land. 
No doubt our tastes were awfully depraved, but we 
planted things which were known to be adaptable, yet 
just as uncommon as we could get them. The operations 
were not picayune by any means, a vast deal of planting 
was done, enough in many cases to entirely change the 
aspect of very extensive tracts of country. Yes ! there 
were water scenes too, and they were produced just as 
simply as the rest. A dam was built beneath a bridge 
and the stream flooded quite an extensive area of land, 
and a portion of the banks was planted, not with the 
common water weeds of the country, but with Richardias 
and Florentine Irises. I imagine we must have been 
pretty stupid kind of people to be continually aching 
after select effects in that manner, but wise or stupid we 
unquestionably did succeed in making them just as select 
as we called them, and I believe we preserved and even 
enhanced the beauty of the landscape, which was by no 
means easy where everything was beautiful. 
Trenton, N. J. James MacPherson. 
THE PEAR-TREE PSYLLA. 
This formidable enemy of pear culture will doubtless 
extend its destructive work over a wide territory the com¬ 
ing season, and cultivators of this fruit should be prepared 
to meet it promptly, or their orchards will be seriously 
injured, if not completely ruined, says George T. Powell 
in the Rural New Yorker. As the warm days come on, 
eggs will be laid about the bases of the terminal buds, 
and in the creases of old bark. As soon as the leaves be¬ 
gin to open, these eggs will hatch, and the young insects 
will begin to suck the sap from the axils of the leaves and 
stems of the forming fruit. Unless active measures be 
taken at this time to destroy the psylla, in 30 days most 
of the fruit will drop Off, and what is left will be worth¬ 
less, and the trees will be seriously injured at the end of 
the season. 
The treatment is to spray with kerosene emulsion as 
soon as the leaves begin to open. This should be 
thoroughly done to destroy the first brood ; if this be 
done, they will give comparatively little trouble for the 
rest of the summer. The following formula I have found 
effective: one-half pound of hard soap, one gallon of 
water, two gallons of kerosene. Dissolve the soap in hot 
water, and add the kerosene while the water is at the 
boiling point. Churn thoroughly until a comjDlete emul¬ 
sion is formed. Use one gallon of the emulson to 20 of 
water, spray thoroughly, and this very serious pest can be 
annihilated. Within the next two weeks, another very 
thorough spraying again done so that every part of the 
tree is wet, will insure a good growth of new wood, and 
not only will the present crop of fruit be saved, but one 
assured for next year. Fruit growers must examine 
closely, and if they see any evidence of this insect, must 
spray at once, and save their trees and fruit. 
dFvom IDadous points. 
Greenhouses and nursery stock were damaged by a 
severe hail storm in Rochester on May 10th. 
Hertfordshire, Devonshire, Norfolk and Worcestershire 
are the principal apple-growing counties of England. 
The Delaware school children have, by a large majority, 
selected the peach blossom as the state floral emblem. 
The thirteenth annual meeting of the American Seed 
Trade Association will be held in the Russell House, 
Detroit, Mich., June iith to 13th. 
The semi-annual meeting of the Missouri State Horti¬ 
cultural Society will be held at Willow Springs, Mo., on 
June 4th, 5th and 6th. J. C. Evans, of North Kansas 
City, is president; L. A. Goodman, of Westport, secre¬ 
tary. 
It is reported that the fruit crop of California will be 
considerably shortened by excessive dropping due to late 
frosts in April and excessive moisture along the rivers 
where much fruit is grown. Sunshine and warm weather 
are needed. 
There have been eighty-one carloads of fruit trees 
received thus far at Delta, Colorado, this season and the 
stock has been planted in that vicinity. With the local 
grown trees this means that more than a million trees 
have been planted in the county this spring. 
It is stated that there are 26,000,000 acres of waste 
land in England, and about one-fourth of that expanse 
might be easily made available for planting out with 
trees, and that beyond all doubt there are a great many 
areas in England which would be more profitable to plant 
with trees than to use for other purposes. 
Jonas Martin, one of the largest grape growers in the 
Chautauqua region, has just finished tying up 150 acres of 
vines with wire instead of with twine. Many growers are 
using No. 19 annealed wire cut 3j^ inches long, and say 
that it is cheaper than twine, and that twice as much 
ground can be covered in a day as when twine is used. 
Claude Meeker, American consul at Bradford, England, 
reports to Secretary of Agriculture Morton : “ Fruits are 
imported from nearly all fruit-growing countries. The 
amount produced heie is exceedingly small. At the same 
time the demand for fruit is continually growing, many 
physicians recommending the American custom of eating 
fruit for breakfast as exceedingly wholesome and the 
general consumption of fruit in season as healthful in 
every way. The climate and seasons in this part of Eng¬ 
land not being suitable for fruit culture, the people have 
not, as a rule, any particular desire for it. The American 
apple, however, is in especially high favor, particularly 
the Newtown Pippin. Immense quantities of these 
apples are shipped here every autumn. The Bradford 
fruiterers get the American fruit from both London and 
Liverpool. Despite the great quantity received, the 
supply practically fails about the middle of February in 
