Dwarf Pears in the Middle and Southern States are a great success, and very profitable. In the Eastern States, we have no doubt, standards are far more satisfactory than dwarfs.

Editorial Note #1

This tar remedy is good for borers, worms or insects around the trunk of the tree, but is not always a sure cure for the blight. No experienced horticulturist can recommend one sore plan beyond that of repeatedly cutting back the parts affected by the blight. Boot pruning is often successful.

Editorial Note #2

The average production of Strawberries per acre, in Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey, is but 1,500 quarts per acre. This is true of large plantations for market purposes ; but where only a small piece of ground, one to two acres is planted, the yield is often doubled, because the land is better oared for, better tilled, and more amply manured. It is a good rule worth laying down in stawberry culture, that if all the manure and one-half the labor were concentrated upon half the space, the product would be doubled, and the expense of culture would be much less. It should be the desire of growers not to get more land, but to put more manure upon the land they already cultivate.

We doubt if 6,000 quarts, per acre, were ever obtained upon the same land two seasons in succession, or in average market plantations.

Editorial Notes #3

Fall Campaign. Reduction of Terms. Keep Pushing Thing:

Our offer of three mouths for thirty cents, as a trial trip, we again renew for the last three months of this year. Send in the names by the thousand.

After December 1st, our Subscription terms per year will be reduced to $2, if paid strictly id advance before February 1st, next.

Our Club Terms are also reduced, and are now so favorable that anyone can get up a club cosily, anywhere. See new Club List, in advertising pages.

Editorial Notes #4

A New Addition to Editorial Stiff,

Commencing with this number our friend, Josiah Hoopes, takes his place as one of the steady asociate editorial correspondents of The Horticulturist, who will talk to us with gossip or practical notes, about flower gardening and ornamental planting. In thus warmly welcoming him to a position of such prominent and advanced opportunities for good, or for popularity, we assure our readers that they will find in his articles the most valuable of facts, experiences and suggestions, and we know no better authority in this country than he, in all departments of popular horticulture. His articles will be of great value to every amateur, to every nurseryman, to every florist and gardener.

Editorial Notes #5

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Editorial Note #6

The market train from Delaware to New York, in strawberry-season, has reached as high as one hundred cars, with no less than 400,000 quarts, in a single morning, while, for days, the supply averaged thirty to fifty cars, and over 100,000 quarts. The State of Delaware is the largest fruit State on the Atlantic coast; its strawberry crop of 1873 was over 3,000,000 quarts; its peaches over 3,000,000 baskets. It is the largest poultry State in the Union; the total value of poultry and eggs shipped to market is larger than all its total receipts from fruit. Delaware sweet potatoes command a premium of one dollar per bushel above all others.