Books On Small Fruit Culture. J. H. T

We refer you to "Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist," "Barry's Fruit Garden," and "Thomas' American Fruit Culturist," all of which may be obtained of The Garden Publishing Company, Limited.

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Bordeaux Mixture For Apple Scab

The Department of Agriculture reports that copper compounds, such as eau celeste and the ammoniacal solution of carbonate of copper, have been found effective in preventing apple scab. This is an important step in advance, but those who try it, should not use the Bordeaux mixture, which stays on too long and disfigures the apple. The accompanying figure represents the effect it produced on some Ben Davis apples to which it was applied but once. - C. M. W.

Braced Crotches

The accompanying illustration is from a photograph, and shows crotches of an apple tree braced by a living branch. This brace is composed of two limbs twisted together while small. The limbs grow into a solid branch in a few years.

A Braced Crotch.

The Brigdon Peach

This peach originated in Cayuga county, N. Y.. and is being grown quite extensively on the shores of Seneca lake. It gave a very remunerative crop last season. The tree is hardy and the fruit large, remarkably handsome and more productive than the Early Crawford. The foliage is large, green, glossy and peculiar. The flesh of the fruit is yellow, very rich and juicy, with a pleasant flavor ; color of fruit, deep orange-red, becoming dark red on the exposed side. It is attractive and has been universally admired wherever exhibited, and has taken the first premium at the Cayuga county fair for three years. Its season is the middle of September, and it is a freestone. - G. W. Churchill.

A Budding Machine

W. H. Rowell, of Ft. Meade, has invented a budding machine. Mr. Rowell's budder being "loaded" with a bud, plows under the bark, a pull on the trigger drives the bud in, and it is left in proper position for binding. Mr. Rowell claims that 12,000 buds can be inserted in a day with his budder, and that a child can learn the use of it in fifteen minutes. This implement is in some respects like a seed dropper. The part that holds and inserts the bud is made of different sizes or numbers, adapted to the different sizes of buds and stocks. By changing the points it may be used on stocks ranging from an inch down to one-eighth of an inch in diameter. - Florida Agriculturist.

Bulb Culture

By Peter Henderson & Co. Pp. 24. Illustrated. This is a useful pamphlet to all lovers of fleshy rooted plants. It is compiled much in the catalogue style, being arranged alphabetically. It discusses tuberous-rooted plants as well as true bulbs.

Burying Lemons

The Rural Californian relates the following instance of keeping lemons in sand: "The lemons had been picked by Mr. Ayers in January, packed in boxes, and buried in the sand, under cover, so as to keep off rains. After lying three months, they were dug up, and found to be as fine as the best imported lemon. We believe that as good lemons can be grown in southern California as can be imported from Europe, and we only need to exercise a little care in handling the fruit, to make our lemons bring as good a price on the market as foreign lemons do".