. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. tchen garden crops, for I find crops dressedwith guano alone do not produce so well asthose dressed with one part salt to two partsguano, but it should not be given in dryweather, for it scalds all the leaves uponwhich it falls. I am convinced that guano and salt in theproportions named will prove good forvines, especially those that have a tendencyto mildew; also for the Peaches, whichnever do so well as near the sea, or withinthe sea or within reach of its influence. Itwill also be g
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. tchen garden crops, for I find crops dressedwith guano alone do not produce so well asthose dressed with one part salt to two partsguano, but it should not be given in dryweather, for it scalds all the leaves uponwhich it falls. I am convinced that guano and salt in theproportions named will prove good forvines, especially those that have a tendencyto mildew; also for the Peaches, whichnever do so well as near the sea, or withinthe sea or within reach of its influence. Itwill also be good for all plants subject tomildew. Salt and lime are the most de-structive of all to fungoid life. Ferns are speedily destroyed by guanoand salt, but if freestone be sprinkled with it, the stone in a few days becomes quitegreen from the growth of Moss; hence itmay be of value in newly formed rockwork. T. on growing T. B. Terry a widely-known writerand gardener of Northern Ohio, has recent-ly told in a work of 144 pages how to growStrawberries.* The work contains much GANDYS. excellent information as may be gatheredfrom the specimen of matter and engrav-ings herewith presented. Says Mr Terry;We may safely say that the total value ofthe crop from several rods less than half anacre at wholesale prices was ^287. No at-tempt was made to get the last dollar out ofthem, or the receipts might have beenpushed up to $300. The exact yield in bush-els was over 100, or considerably over 300bushels per acre. We sold to dealers only,or to families who wanted a half-busheldrawer. 1 fixed the price of oiu* best selectedberries at $ a bushel, and of the smallones for canning at -W, and held it therewithout any regard to how low others wereselling. Our town people after the first daytook all we had, so that we did not have a * * How to Oiow strawberries. A. I. Root, Medina*Ohio, publlsbei*. single quart of berries spoil after they werepicked. Nothing in
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