Paris Green For The Canker Worm

The New England Homestead notes with surprise that so many New England apple trees are eaten by canker worm as with fire, though the Homestead has so repeatedly shown that a simple spraying of water with Paris green will destroy them. The reason is, the people do not read the Homestead or any other agricultural paper. They are of the anti " book larnin' " class. They take their church paper, and their political paper - but a farm paper, for a farmer, did you ever!

Josephine De Malines

The irreverent descendants of Adam in England, call this pear Joseph on the palings, but it is one of the most famous of all the European varieties; and, we are inclined to think, a much better pear for American gardens than it is generally supposed to be.

Drying Apricots

This has become a very successful industry in California.

The Brussels Sprouts

This form of the Cabbage family, has small heads all along the main stem. It is not popular in northern gardens because it does not endure the winter well; and the chief value of the vegetable is after frost has been on them. Those who care to protect them a little, however, think it pays. Further south it deserves to be grown to a much greater extent than it is by those who love good things.

Thinning Forests

English foresters are beginning to find that it does not pay to grow hoop sticks and all sorts of poles among forest trees. A forest should be all of the kind wanted for timber, - and instead of fussing about thinning should be planted no thicker than desired for the final forest.

Early Botany In Philadelphia

Bartram began his garden in 1728. Peter Kalm, for whom the Kalmia was named, settled in Philadelphia in 1748. Dr. Adam Kuhn, the first Professor of Botany in America, and for whom is named the Kuhnia, settled in Philadelphia in 1768. In 1773,. Humphrey Marshall, commemorated in the Mar-shallia, and the author of the first botanical work in America, commenced his botanic garden at Mar-shallton.

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Charles Turner

This distinguished florist died recently in England. He was well known in America. Few men did so much to improve florists' flowers as he did, and a large number of the best Dahlias, Carnations, Pelargoniums, etc, were raised by him. It was the great love of a whole lifetime with him. He started when fifteen years of age with a florist named Squibb, and because of his keen delight and success in business soon came to be partner in other famous concerns.