The crop in California is very large this year, and numbers have been successfully sent to the East. They were quite abundant on the fruit stands in Philadelphia during the first week in June, and excited great curiosity among numbers who had never seen an apricot before.

Saunders' Hybrid Black Cap, No. 53 - is said by a correspondent of the Canadian Horticulturist to be one of the most productive raspberries known. Three pints have been gathered from one plant at a single picking.