352 TRANSACTIONS OF TUE 



J. C. Berry said a man can do more work in three hours with a 

 horse and cultivator than can be done by a woman in a whole week. 



J. M. Berry is not prepared to give up the spade in all cases. 

 He can make his early lettuce and radish beds and the like without 

 the horse. ♦ 



Mr. Hays had raised over two hundred bushels of the Red 

 Weathersfield onion from seed the past season on a half acre of land 

 planted the first of May. Land intended for early garden crops is 

 benefited by fall plowing. 



J. M. Berry introduced the subject of pruning, and said the 

 apple orchard should be pruned sparingly this spring, as many trees 

 were in poor condition to receive a shock. The best time to prune 

 is when the tree is in its most healthy condition and growth (May 

 or June), but the best method is to care diligently for the young 

 tree, rubbing off the buds; then little pruning is needed in after 

 years. 



C. F. Darnell said: You must study the character of the tree. 

 If you prune Willow Twig in May or June, or, in fact, almost any 

 time, you will get blight, and many varieties bleed too freely. 



C. B. Rockwell said: He would never cut a branch that was 

 over two years old. He is certain that old orchards are often pruned 

 to death. In this matter intelligent discretion is much needed. 

 Judicious pruning, done at the proper time, gives thrift to the tree, 

 and color and quality to the fruit. 



J. L. Piggott said: Winter pruning gives superfluous water 

 sprouts; a cut made in May or June heals readily. 



AN ESSAY. 

 BY C. B. KOCKWELL, OF MONTEBELLO. 



The old English poet, Keats, has said, " A thing of beauty is a 

 joy forever." Allow me to transpose it for once into a more practi- 

 cal sentiment, and say, "A good garden is a solid comfort forever," 

 and then I will try to tell you, to the best of my ability, how to 

 have a good garden. 



The first thing to do is to make up your mind that you will have 

 a good garden; a garden in every sense of the word. Not simply a 

 few things that will give you a small amount once or twice a week, 

 but one that will furnish you all kinds of vegetables ten months in 



