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brighten up almost any flower, and especially bulbous plants. Another 

 cheap manure is prepared by mixing about ^ pound of cow manure with 

 two gallons of water. This is applied from once to twice per week, and 

 is a very safe fertilizer. 



ASHES FOR STAWBERRIES. 



President J. M. Smith said he put on wood ashes, and his strawber- 

 ries averaged 250 bushels to the. acre — -applying about 75 bushels an 

 acre. The crops were well manured and cultivated, and in the face of 

 drouth and rains, other adverse conditions, the berries brought him over 

 $500 an acre. But the average yield with others was not half that sum, 



VALUE OF CULTIVATION. 



Prof Henry said that in California the great remedy for drouth, 

 where they are nearly without rain for several months, was surface cul- 

 tivation. He asked a man who had a 600-acre orchard, "How often do 

 you cultivate that orchard .^ " He said, " I don't know." I said, "Ten 

 times ? " He answered, he did not know. I asked, " Twenty times .'' " 

 He answertd, " Perhaps ; as soon as the teams go through one way they 

 go through the other, and that is kept up during the season, with all 

 sorts of implements." He has 82 men working. They thus get along 

 without water, and their trees grow right along. 



STONE FRUITS. 



THE GOOD PEACH. 



We send you by this mail a sample of what we think is the coming 

 late white peach. It originated near York, Pa., and will be known as 

 "Good," in honor of the introducer. It is nearly or quite as late as 

 Smock, and much larger, and, being a good white peach, will supply a 



long felt want. 



H. M. ENGLE & SON. 



