The Destruction Of Caterpillars

The Prefect of Meurthe-et-Muselle has given out a notice, based on the law of the 24th of December, 1888, requiring all proprietors, farmers, tenants, corporations, and any others who have charge of lands, to clear all the trees, hedges, thickets, etc., of caterpillars twice every year. The first clearing is to take place during February, and the second during May - Revue Horticole.

Destruction Of The Aphis On The Rose

Apply dry and finely sifted wood-ashes to the affected bushes. These should be sprayed before the application, in order to make the ashes adhere to the leaves and stems. This method is cheap and effective. - Revue Horticole.

Dewberry

The Lucretia dewberry has been spoken against by some, but I think it is the most valuable blackberry to plant at the north. It may not be so hardy as some of the bush sorts, but its natural position on the ground makes it one of the easiest of plants to cover. A few evergreen boughs I find to be sufficient. Some complain that the fruit gets covered with dirt during rains, but it is not necessary that it should become dirty. I make a horizontal trellis about two feet from the ground upon which I lay the canes in the spring. This puts them in the best position to be protected from birds by mosquito netting.

Differences In Varieties

There may be some truth in Mr. Allen's articles on seed growing, in what he says about "naming once in an hundred times the fruit to which the name belonged." Nevertheless had he seen the growth from first to last of my tomatoes which he criticises, the bearing quality, habit of plant, flavor, etc., he might have less difficulty in selecting the varieties. At about blossoming time there was a very marked difference in the plants, so that there was but little difficulty to pick out varieties where the rows ended, etc., without looking up the labels.

As tomatoes have a more fixed habit than the apple or peach when grown from seed, we need not look for so much diversity of flavors, but that there is a great difference in their quality no one who has studied that particular side will deny. In looks they are more uniform. - N. Hallock, Creedmoor, L, I.

Disease Of Hollyhocks

A fungous disease, almost identical with one which frequently attacks the potato, is destroying large numbers of hollyhocks in England, seriously threatening their culture.

Disease Of The Potato

A disease unknown to agriculturists has made its appearance in various parts of France. It is caused by a bacillus which attacks the potato plant near the surface of the ground, causing the cells to turn brown. The plant dies almost immediately. The name Bacillus caulivorus has been proposed for the organism causing the disease. - Le Progres Agricole et Viticole.

Do Fruit Trees Come True From Seed?. A.G.F. Keeseville, N. Y

In general, no. All the common sorts of apples do not reproduce themselves from seeds, but some Russian sorts will do so with tolerable accuracy. A few peaches, as Hill's Chili, come nearly true to seed, and the Crawfords have that tendency. But it may be stated, as a principle, that varieties of fruits do not reproduce themselves from seed.