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bulk of stuff arriving. Large consignments receive consideration that is 

 scarcely worth while to give to a few odd boxes or packages. It would 

 be a great advantage in shipping if the growers at one point could co- 

 operate and send their fruit not as small individual consignments, but 

 as carlots. Commission merchants are glad to come to the growers 

 and buy at the railroad if they can buy from a company or society or ex- 

 change, but they have not the time to hunt up the growers to buy small 

 lots. An association of growers can employ an agent to keep in tele- 

 graphic touch with market prices few individual growers can. An asso- 

 ciation can secure a uniform grade of fruit and can do a large business 

 under a known brand. Baskets and fertilizers can be obtained by shipping 

 associations at wholesale rates. Cars, rates and concessions can be ob- 

 tained from the railroads by an association that no single individual could 

 hope to receive. There is the other side of the question, too, but as it 

 is a business question I leave it with these few sugestions to you as busi- 

 ness men. 



Sweden has a law requiring the planting of two trees for every one 

 cut down. Why wouldn't that be a good law for this country ? 



ANCIENT APPLE TREES. 



Pike county has been advertising the fact that she has an apple 

 tree that was planted eighty years ago and is still bearing. Howard 

 county goes her one better. On the farm of U. M. Williams, just south 

 of Fayette, are two apple trees which were planted from the seed by 

 Colden Williams in 181 7, and which are still bearing with perfect regu- 

 larity. 



A SPRAY OF SCHIZANTHUS. 



An annual, commonly neglected is Schizanthus. It is not hard to 

 cultivate. The seeds should be sown in the house, and the seedlings 

 transplanted to the garden, but this is not obligatory. The flowers are 

 beautiful, indeed, when they are abundantly produced on a thrifty plant. 

 In fact, they so much resemble some of the expensive kinds of orchids 

 that they have been styled the "poor man's orchid." — Country Gentleman. 



