Good Varieties Of Fruit To Travel

Mr. Holsinger told the late meeting of the Kansas Horticultural Society, that, whether a variety would travel well, often depended as much on the packer as on the variety. Speaking of raspberries, he said, if one dead-ripe be put with the others, it soon starts decay among the whole brotherhood. Dead-ripe fruits should be carefully discarded in packing fruits of this kind.

The Fruit House Of Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, N. Y

Col. Wilder says that the fruit house of Ellwanger & Barry, at Rochester, N. Y., is a building where walls and floor are lined with straw and boards, with cellars underneath for storing fruit. When the mercury goes 10° to 120 below zero, a few, 30 or 40, of frost get in, but the boxes and barrels are all covered with straw mats and are never reached by the frost.

Phylloxera In The Old World

In spite of the oppressive and absurd laws by which American horticultural products are practically excluded from the Old World for fear of introducing Phylloxera, it is steadily on the march there. The latest reports state that it has appeared in the East, and the ancient countries of Macedonia and Calcedonia are now exclaiming - as they did in olden times - what shall we do to be saved?" Now that they have it, perhaps also will they make laws to exclude it.

Pears At The Cape Of Good Hope

Every locality on the globe has some spot more favorable to some kinds of fruits than others. At the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Beurre super-fin and Glout Morceau have proved admirably adapted, and an export trade to England is springing up likely to be very profitable to Cape of Good Hope Pear growers. England is the market for them.

Profits Of Apple Culture

" Is the apple culture a good one?" some one asks Mr. De Long, a well known California fruit grower. " Yes," he replies, " if you raise good apples." What an excellent text is here for all fruit growers.

Dried Apricots

This is becoming a very popular article in California, and drying apricots becoming a profitable branch of industry.

Apple Culture In Nova Scotia

Apple culture is progressing in the province to such an extent that 100,000 barrels were received in England last year. The Red Canada seems the variety chiefly depended on.

Pine-Apples In Florida

Where the proper localities are chosen in Florida, it would seem that pine-apple growing is destined to be one of the staple cultures of the State.

Winter Parsley

Many who sow Parsley in autumn, do not have much success, because they commence plucking the leaves too early. Wait till the plants get strong. It is best to pot a few old roots, and keep in a temperature of about 500, to get an early supply from. When these are done, the seedling plants will be ready.