The horticulturist's prospects are bright. All over the state the fruit crop is larger than for several years past. With one or two exceptions, the entire state is blessed with a full crop of the best fruit. Good prices prevail for green, canned and evaporated fruit. The leading canning and evaporating establishment in our state - the Salem Canning Company - has the following schedule of prices per cwt. for present material: Peas, $1.35; beans, $1.20; tomatoes,.90 cts. ; plums, peaches, $1 ; green gage, Jefferson and Columbia, 75 cts. For evaporating, they will pay $1.50 for the Italians, and pay freight when not shipped more than 100 miles. - Professor E. R. Lake, Oregon.

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The B. A. Elliott Company, of Pittsburg, issues a unique and tasty pamphlet and catalogue of "Fall Garden Work," in which particular attention is called to the interesting Japanese irises, and to the importance of planting hardy plants in the fall. They advise to plant everything possible in the fall, as a whole year is saved ; not only the spring flowering bulbs, such as hyacinths, tulips, narcissi, etc., as they cannot be obtained at any other season, but many other things. If you are going to raise lilies, plant them by all means in the fall ; L. candidum should go in just as soon as they can be obtained - the latter part of August or the first of September. Many of the failures in lily growing come from late spring planting.

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