The Peach Tree Borer In The Cherry

Our attention was called to a young five-year-old cherry that had been nearly bored to death near the ground. Not knowing what particular borer attacked the cherry, specimens were sent to Prof. C. V. Riley, at Washington, whose representative, Mr. Howard, pronounces them AEgeria exitiosa, the peach tree borer.

Early Peaches

The American early peaches, Amsden, Downing, Red May, and others of that class, are objectionable from having adherent stones. The Bulletino delta R. Societa Toscano di Orticultura says that Dr. Hogg and Precoce argentee, two that compare well with these in earliness, are pure free-stones.

Apple, Dickinson

The original tree was planted by Mrs. Sarah Dickinson in West Chester, Pa., some twenty years ago. It bears regularly, is very productive, keeps long, is large, beautiful, and of good quality. As figured in the Horticultural Art Journal, it is 4 inches long, and about as wide towards the base, becom ing conical towards the apex. It is yellowish, though almost wholly covered with scarlet crimson flakes.

Blackberries And Apples In Tarts

A correspondent of the Journal of Horticulture says : "Blackberries and apples are excellent for mixing in tarts. The blackberries impart a sweetness or relish similar to that of a handful of raspberries to a quart of red currants. We consider either or both good, separately or together, and ev-eryone can have them, as they will grow anywhere and might supplant the Nettles and rubbish only too common about homesteads".

Cumberland Triumph Strawberry

This variety is getting to be an old kind now, but Mr. Albaugh says it is by far the best variety to grow in the South.

Strawberry Itasca

This has been placed before the public by Mr. J. W. Haynes, of Delphi, Indiana, who claims that it is larger than Wilson, Crescent or Captain Jack, and equally productive; 225 berries have been gathered from a year-old plant.

Lists Of Strawberries

Complaint is sometimes made of the interminable lists of fruit in modern catalogues. But our fathers were as bad.

In the catalogue of W. R. Prince & Co., issued in 1855, there are ninety-nine varieties offered.

The Large Montmorency Cherry

By a colored plate in the Canadian Horticulturist this cherry seems a particularly showy kind, and the scarlet crimson color is very pleasing. It appears to belong to the same class of which the Early Richmond is the type.

Grapes To The Acre

Three tons is about the heaviest acreage reported from California. The vines were three years planted.