THE SEEDLESS APPLE.

— ♦ A bulletin of the Wisconsin Horticultural Society publishes some views of horticulturalists as to the value of the Spencer seedless apple. In general, it appears that, while the apple is usually* seedless, "an occasional seed being found near the calyx, and sometimes just under the skin," it is by no means coreless, and is inclined to be wormy. The horticulturists generally appeared to, speak disparagingly of the apple. They seem to have lost sight of one of the chief points of value about the apple — its 'possible ability to starve the codlin moth out of existence. The codlin moth^ in the opinion o£ some authorities, could not continue to reproduce its spei-ies without its natural food— the seeds of pippin fruit. If from the pre- j sent usually seedless apple other seedless sorts could bo produced of better commercial qualities, the codlin moth might become a thine o{ the past. The woolly aphis, formerly a pest that wrought much havoc in orchards, is now quite third-rate in the damage-it does, thanks to the use of blight-proof varieties as stocks.