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platter of peaches weighing twelve ounces each, which for rare' 

 size and beauty surpassed any thing I ever saw. I found upon 

 inquiry that it was a seedling variety planted by a Miss Carrie 

 Loomis, a young miss but just in her teens. 1 asked '-are they as 

 good as they look." "You shall try them yourself," was the 

 answer. I did try and found them lacking in nothing that con- 

 stitutes a peach of high merit. If hardiness, health, and product- 

 iveness be proved Carriers Champion may be favorably known 

 wherever peaches are grown. 



Parmelee's Crescent seedling strawberry of New Haven has in 

 some points won a world-wide reputation, and in wonderful hardi- 

 ness and productiveness may well challenge every other variety. 



The late Dr. J. J. Howe of Birmingham, was successful irf pro- 

 ducing, not only a pin machine, which now supplies every maiden 

 in the world with those indispensable little articles, but he also 

 originated several choice varieties of fruit, worthy of notice and 

 cultivation. The last act of his life was the picking in his garden 

 a beautiful specimen from one of his choice trees. As a man of 

 modest worth and successful endeavor, we have but to say, his 

 works they praise him. 



There are many new varieties of fruit of the various classes and 

 kinds, which in our State are now being tested, some of which will 

 undoubtedly be heard from in the near future; it is worthy of note 

 that many ladies are doing much in this direction, and with great 

 promise of success. The love of fruits and flowers should cer- 

 tainly be encouraged in both sexes, and in this respect the future 

 is full of promise. We confidently predict that a greater number 

 of choice new fruits will be brought to notice during the last 

 quarter of this century than in any corresponding period of the 

 past. 



ORNAMENTAL STREET TREE-PLANTING. 



The following act was passed and approved in 1881, by the Con- 

 necticut Legislature: — "Every person planting, protecting, and 

 cultivating elm trees not more than sixty feet apart, or maple, 

 tulip, ash, basswood, oak, black-walnut, or hickory, not more than 

 thirty feet apart, for three years, for the space of one-quarter of a 

 mile or more, along any public highway, shall be entitled to receive 

 an annual bounty thereafter of one dollar for each quarter-mile so 

 planted and cultivated, to be paid out of the State treasury; but 



