386 State Horticultural Society. 



From dewy lanes at morning 

 The grapes' sweet odors rise: 

 At noon the roads all flutter 

 AVIth yellow butterflies. 



By all these lovely tokens 

 September days are here. 

 With summer's beat of weather, 

 And autumn's best of cheer. 



—Woman's Journal, Boston 



WHY THINNING WILL PAY. 



(J. H. Hale, South Glastonbury, Oonn.) 



It is the large, fine fruit that brings the profit ; pays the mort- 

 gage, labor, fertilizer and cost of ever>i;hing, says J. H. Hale, of 

 Connecticut. It leaver the dollar where you are going to have the 

 fun out of it. To have high grade fruit, we must thin. Have a 

 thousand peaches, and leave them all on the trees, and you may 

 have five half-bushel baskets with 200 in each. You may throw 

 500 away and still have five baskets of peaches. One may have 

 not over 45 or 50 peaches in it, and yet have it worth $1.50 to $2. 

 The other baskets with 200 in them will be worth 50 cents. Fine 

 peaches will bring from ten to sixteen times as much, besides not 

 weakening the trees, as little peaches, which are nothing but seed, 

 skin and wool. 



You have a law that will not permit you to sell milk which is 

 more than so much water. We fruit growers have the advantage 

 over every other producer; the more we water our stock, the more 

 they will pay us for it, and the more solids, the less they pay us 

 ifor it. 



Peaches that are 15 per cent solids and 85 per cent water are 

 worth 50 cents, but those only 10 per cent solids and 90 per cent 

 water are worth $3 or $4. I say, dose them with water ; soak them, 

 and this is easiest done by thinning, and so getting large fruit full 

 of water. — Prairie Farmer. 



THE GIFT OF GARDENS. 



God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the 

 purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the 

 spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross 



