. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1 00 per year, entitl ng the subscriber to membership of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontirio and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Annual Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees, REMITTANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon the address label. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Mr. E. Williams, of New Jersey, suggests an improvement in the naming of strawberries. He would give female names to the pistillate varieties, a
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1 00 per year, entitl ng the subscriber to membership of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontirio and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Annual Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees, REMITTANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon the address label. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Mr. E. Williams, of New Jersey, suggests an improvement in the naming of strawberries. He would give female names to the pistillate varieties, and male names to the staminate. Such names would designate at once the char- acter of the flowers to the cultivator, who would know at a glance to which class they belonged. Of course there are some varieties whose flowers are perfect, and perhaps neuter names might be applied to these. Certainly some such plan would be a convenience. New Method of Applying Kerosene for Insects.—The Wisconsin Station Report for 1891, E. H. Goff, Horticulturist, gives a new method of applying kerosene for insects, which would appear to be of value to us. It con- sists in having a pump so constructed that lower valve seat allows the entrance of water through one opening and kerosene through another. The two liquids become mixed in passing through the valves and cylinder of the pump, and are finally broken up into an exceedingly fine spray by being forced through a good spraying nozzle. The mixture is, of course, mechanical and not absolutely permanent; but still it has been found sufficiently slow of separation for safe use upon plants. When the spray is collected in a glass vessel, the liquid appears milky white, and retains its milky proportion for hours. This mixture has been tested upon the foliage of the evergreen, rose, strawberry, grape, rasp- berry, blackberry, plum, etc. ; and in no case did it prove injurious, unless the amount of kerosene exceeded ten per cent. This mixture was found
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