Souhegan Raspberry

This is earlier than the Doolittle, and is a very good Black Cap. It has no gray bloom, as some have, and looks well to the eye.

The Currant Borer

This pest of the cultivator of the Atlantic slope, the AEgeria tipuli-formis, we found, on our recent trip to the Pacific, to be worrying the growers in that district also.

Hale's Early Peach

This is regarded as the best of all the well-known early kinds for peach house culture in England. Besides its extra earli-ness, it is pronounced delicious.

Carolina Raspberry

This is the only white raspberry, of the American race, that seems worthy of culture. It is, of course, not so good as Brin-kle's Orange, or other light-colored kinds, of the foreign breed; but it is a very good, hardy kind for an amateur's garden.

Value Of Fruit Farms In Western N. Y

According to a correspondent of American Rural Home, a farm of 100 acres, in Orleans County, New York, was bought, by Mr. Packard, for $20,000. It had 50 acres of apple, 8 of peaches, 5 of quinces, and about 200 standard Bartlett pears.

Alexander Peach

We notice that this American variety is attracting attention in Italy.

Early Cluster Blackberry

Is one of the new introductions, which seems to have more than the usual number of intelligent endorsements.

The Best Pear And Apple

" F.," Washington, Pa., writes: "I am an amateur with a small garden, and want a few fruit trees to plant to get fruit to eat and not to sell. I don't care for enormous bearers, merely. I want, say, half a dozen apples and half a dozen pears, and I only care for one kind each. What would you recommend a new subscriber to plant? "

[The Seckel pear and the Smokehouse apple. - Ed. G. M.]

The Latest From Timber-Land

The period now fixed by a prominent forestry essayist for the " utter disappearance of every stick of American timber," is now placed at seven years. He is not so liberal as old Ben Franklin. If we remember correctly he put the period at twenty years.

A Large Tulip Tree

A specimen cut down in Cayuga county, near Cayuga Lake, according to a correspondent of the Country Gentleman, measured 6 feet across and was 124 feet high. Another was 6 feet 4 inches, cut some time since.

Podophyllum In Formosa

Dr. Hance records in the Journal of Botany the existence of a species of this genus in the island of Formosa. Previously botanists knew only of the common North American species and of the Himalayan one, P. Emodi (see Gardeners' Chronicle, p. 241, vol. xviii.), which has also lately been discovered in the province of Kansu. The discovery of a new species in Formosa (P. pleianthum) might have been anticipated. - Gardeners Chronicle.