A very common complaint last season was the premature decay or falling off of the leaves of the Niagara and other white grapes. Whether this was due to continuous wet weather or to the work of insects, I am not prepared to say ; but as a preventive or means of saving the crop, I have ac-cidently, I think, discovered what may be the means of saving the crop another year. It is well known that when the grape vine loses all its leaves the fruit does not come to perfection, but becomes insipid.

A sicyos or wild cucumber vine found its way up among the leaves of a Niagara grape vine growing in my yard, and, whether by its shade or the attraction of insects from the vine, the grape remained in a vigorous growing state all summer.

I noticed the unusually healthy state of the grape vine very early in the season, and watched it for results. The consequence was that there was no rot or decay on either leaves or fruit. I thought it worthy of note, especially since all the leaves of white grapes in the neighborhood were completely fallen off. If one of these wild cucumber vines or its seed were planted on every fifteen or sixteen feet of grape trellis and should be the means of saving the crop, it could not possibly do any harm, and I think it well worthy of a trial. - T. B., Mercer Co., N. J.

The increase of the exportation of apples from Nova Scotia to England is something remarkable. According to Mr. Johnson, statistician of the Dominion of Canada, this export, which in 1868 was but $44,000, reached, in . 1888, $700,000. At the same time the increase in the quantity of apples annually sent to the United States was from $35,000 to $400,000. - T. H. Hoskins, M. D., Vermont.