. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. eclared values being $U,-800. against $9,. in 1888. The Pine-apple cropwas very unprofitable, less than the usual de-mand prevailing,, so that only 283,000 dozenswere shipped in 1889, against .546,000 dozens theprevious year. The crop was invoiced at $205,-000inl88S, but in 1889 only at S13o,000. Aboutthe usual quantity of fruit was canned at the factories. The fruit trade is almost entirelywith the TTnited States.—From Report ofConsuls of U. S. Onion Mairgot. Having this trouble o
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. eclared values being $U,-800. against $9,. in 1888. The Pine-apple cropwas very unprofitable, less than the usual de-mand prevailing,, so that only 283,000 dozenswere shipped in 1889, against .546,000 dozens theprevious year. The crop was invoiced at $205,-000inl88S, but in 1889 only at S13o,000. Aboutthe usual quantity of fruit was canned at the factories. The fruit trade is almost entirelywith the TTnited States.—From Report ofConsuls of U. S. Onion Mairgot. Having this trouble on myfarm, while preparinvr to abandon one of mybeds, I heard an old market gardener state thathe had had no serious trouble from the maggotsince he had tried the hen-and-chicken stated that it was his practice to confine ahen with chickens on each acre of his Onionground, soon after the plants appeared aboveground,- the hen to be confined in a small coopwhich allowed the chickens easy access in andout. The chickens he stated, soon got track ofthe fly and devoured it while depositing its BULBS AND BULB SCALES OF LILIUM SUPERBUM. The past season I tried the experiment, locatingthree broods on about as many acres, putting inone in about the middle of each. As to the re-sult, my Onions were much less injured by themaggots than they had been the year previously,and I strongly inclined to award the credit tothe feathered hunters.—Rural New Worker. Stable Manure for the Garden. No stablemanure is tit to use under a year if made in theusual sbpshod style. There is but one way toprepare it for garden purposes. It must bepiled up in heaps any length, four feet feet high, kept slightly moist, and turnedover, the outsides turned in, and so worked overthree or four times every season. If this is donein a thorough manner, seed will rot, andthe manure will be clean, and clean food willmake clean land. It would be just as sensible tofeed gravel stones to a
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