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them inside and outside of our grapery — one inside and then 

 one outside, alternately. A few weeks ago, I had occasion to 

 remove the soil inside, and concluded it was better to take it 

 out. I think we had enriched it as much inside as out, for the 

 sake of nourishing the roots. But when we came to dig down, 

 we did not find any root there ; the truth was, the roots ran 

 outside, the whole of them. I suppose they wanted to enjoy 

 the sunshine ; I don't know what else they were after. 



These ideas have been thrown out, in order that if any of 

 you are going into the business, you may know some simple 

 things about it. I wish there were more here to take up the 

 subject and discuss it. It is one of great interest. I think if 

 any one would take it up and give his attention to it, he could 

 accomplish a great deal. If you want to get peach-trees, the 

 best way is to go to Long Island and buy them at the nursery, 

 selecting those about a year from the bud, bring them home, 

 set them out in pots, and then cut off the top. 



Dr. Loring. What Dr. Durfee has said about dwarf pears 

 is very interesting; but the plan has been adopted in Esses 

 County, of setting dwarf and standard trees alternately. It 

 is very difficult to make the trees stand up. It requires as 

 much manure to grow dwarf pears as it does to raise a crop of 

 mangold wurzels. They require a great deal of manure, but 

 they mature early, come into bearing early, and they will 

 really come into bearing and go out of existence before a 

 standard will get ready to go to work. That is the advantage 

 of trees on the quince stock. 



The statement by Dr. Durfee, in reference to the roots of 

 grape-vines coming out from under glass into the warm light, 

 where the sun shone, is an interesting fact also. You may not 

 all have heard of certain experiments that have been made 

 with the glass of green-houses, grape-houses, <fcc. It is one of the 

 most interesting of modern discoveries, if true. Gen. Pleas- 

 anton, of Philadelphia, tried the experiment of inserting, in 

 every eighth row of panes in his hot-house, a blue pane of 

 glass, the whole length, as I should judge, of his house ; and he 

 found that the effect of that blue light upon his vines was such 

 that the grapes in the houses in which that glass was inserted 

 matured many days earlier than where the blue glass was not 

 inserted ; that the growth of the vines was much greater, the 



