ISO STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



LIQUID GRAFTING AVAX. 



Liquid grafting wax, which, being about the consistency of honey, can be 

 made, which may be readily applied with a brush for outdoor grafting, without 

 the trouble of heating. It is likewise a good application for wounds in trees, 

 cuts made in pruning etc. : Melt together 1 pound of rosin and 1 pound of 

 good beef tallow. Remove from the stove and let cool until a scum forms 

 over it, then add 1 teaspoonful of spirits of turpentine ; replace on the stove 

 and add seven ounces of a mixture of 2 parts strong alcohol and 1 part water, 

 stirring briskly and taking care that the alcohol does not inflame, as it will if 

 the mixture is too hot. Stir until the liquid is lost in the mixture, when it 

 should be of the consistency of honey. Keep in a closed bottle and apply with 

 a brush. If, after a month or two, it becomes hard, remelt, add a few more 

 drops of turpentine, and of the alcohol and water. A few days after it is 

 applied it becomes hard, and will remain unchanged, except that it grows 

 harder, for an indefinite time. 



W. W. Tracy. 



FRUIT FOR THE TABLE. 



If we eat to live, the choice of food must have a good deal to do with the 

 happiness of living. It seems to me there is altogether too much meat and 

 pastry eaten, and fruit does not enter largely enough into the eating curriculum. 

 The apples, peaches, pears, etc., are usually, if eaten fresh, taken in hand be- 

 tween meals so as to keep the stomach in continual commotion and thus do full 

 duty. 



The time of all others to eat fruit is at meal time, and the best place to put 

 it is not between rich crusts, or sweetened and spiced out of all its original fla- 

 vor, but taken free from any chemical household contrivances, and rich only 

 with wholesome freshness, into the stomach. Kipe fruit eaten at proper times 

 is wholesome to all — except the few Avho have inherited or produced by false 

 diet, abnormal digestive organs. I would have fruit of some kind upon the 

 table in its fresh state each meal in the day, during as much of the year as it 

 can readily be obtained. To those who can relish a meal better with a delicate 

 appropriateness of everything connected with the table, there is nothing that 

 can be more pleasing than the decorative influence of dishes of rich fruit upon 

 the table. 



If, in the arrangement of the table, fruit is the desert, I would in place of 

 two or three courses of meat and fish put one course and have several deserts. 

 Perhaps I am not up with the times, and it is necessary now-a-days to stuff our 

 epigastrium with all sorts of meats to the exclusion of fruits, but still it seems 

 to me the world would be better off if it would work toward the original diet of 

 Eden — which we are led to believe was exclusively fruits. 



S. Q. Lent. 



