Golden Queen Raspberry

This was found on the grounds of Ezra Stokes, of Camden county, New Jersey, among a 12-acre block of Cuthbert. It resembles that variety in all but its bright color. Like all light-colored varieties, the flavor is preferred by most tastes to the darker kinds.

Crimson Cluster Strawberry

It is said that berries of this variety have been produced nearly seven inches in circumference. This is very good for a round strawberry. The cockscomb-formed fruit we may sometimes find with enormous figures, but with little actual fruit.

The Delaware Winter Apple

This is a variety being introduced by Mr. Corsa, of Delaware. Besides being a remarkably good keeper, having been found of good quality in June, it is remarkable as an early bearer, trees but a few years old bearing profusely.

This is a point that has not received the atten-tention of those interested in profitable orchard culture that it deserves. If one can get a full crop from an orchard in five or ten years, why wait for those that take fifteen or twenty?

Potato Disease

This has been more virulent than usual in Eastern Pennsylvania, this year; but not so very destructive as it has been in some seasons. Possibly an average of a fourth or fifth of the foliage was destroyed, not, however, in many cases reaching to the main stems. Still, there was enough to give notice to people of smell, that fermentation in the leaves through the fungus attacks, was going on. And we shall probably hear of potatoes rotting badly before the autumn closes.

Blue Gum In California

One of the earliest planted in the State was cut down at Santa Rosa this summer, because it insisted on pushing a house aside. It was 105 feet high, but exact age not stated.

The Vanilla Bean

This is the fruit of an orchid, and is used to flavor ice cream. There have been rather numerous cases of poisoning from ice cream at picnics lately; and it is be- i lieved in some high medical journals that the Va-; nilla bean is sometimes poisonous. It is much more likely that some one is imitating vanilla, and have poisonous ingredients used in the manufacture; for it is only when large quantities of ice cream are furnished "cheap" that the poisoning occurs.

A Century Plant In Philadelphia

One of the century plants, Agave Sisalana, was brought from Mexico by Rev. Dr. McCook, the famous investigator into the habits of ants. It was placed in a half barrel, and has now started to bloom. Those who delight in these rare curiosities, may see it all the autumn at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Nineteenth and Race Streets, Philadelphia. The common century plant is blooming in other places.