t if you
will come out and live with us the year round at University Farm. We
should have a building there suited to your needs that we could all use
as a great horticultural center, open the year round. You have already
taken steps in this direction. I hope that conditions will be such that
we can join hands to get it very soon.

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SAN JOSE SCALE REQUIRES PROMPT ACTION--ORCHARD SHOULD EITHER BE
DESTROYED OR SPRAYED BEFORE BUDS OPEN.--There are a few orchards in
Colorado that are found to be infested with the San Jose scale.

Owners of these orchards should determine upon one of two courses to
pursue. The orchard should either be promptly cut down and destroyed, or
the trees should be thoroughly treated with lime-sulphur solution or a
good quality of miscible oil for the destruction of the scale before the
buds open in the spring.

If lime-sulphur is determined upon, the home-made article may be used,
or the commercial lime-sulphur solutions may be used, in which case they
should be diluted with water, in the proportion of one gallon of the
commercial lime-sulphur to not more than ten gallons of water. The
application should be made thoroughly, so that every bit of the bark of
trunk and limbs is covered with the spray.

If miscible oil is used, I would recommend using one gallon of the oil
to each nineteen gallons of water. Hard or alkaline waters should be
avoided, as sometimes the oil will not make a good emulsion with them.
Use soft water, if possible.--C.P. Gillette, Colorado Agricultural
Experiment Station.

The Horticulturist as King.

C. S. HARRISON, NURSERYMAN, YORK, NEB.

Some of the promises regarding our future stagger us with their
vastness. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my
throne." But how is it down here? Thou "crownest him with riches and
honor." Thou hast "put all things under his feet." Unto fields where
feet of angels come not we are chosen as partners of the Heavenly Father
to make this a more fruitful and beautiful world.

In our life work much depends on our attitude regarding our calling. We
can plod like an ox, or like Markham's semi-brute man with the hoe, and
make that the badge of servitude to toil, or we can make it a wand in a
magician's hand to call forth radiant forms of beauty from the somber
earth to smile upon us and load the air with fragrance. We can live down
in the basement of horticulture or in the u