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peach or two swimming in a sea of juice. Good canners should fill the can full of 

 fruit first, then pour in juice to fill up. Dishonest canners use poor, unripe fruit, so 

 hard that it would realize no sale in market, and think that by cooking, it may be 

 made to answer. In this way canned peaches can be made and sold for $1,75 per 

 dozen. Good, well filled cans of selected peaches, cannot be well made for less than 

 So to %\ per dozen, each can holding one to two quarts. Great damage is done to 

 tlie business of canning fruit by dishonest packers. It is a business of immense value 

 to our fruit growers, as it opens an avenue for new markets, and relieves the market 

 of its surplus fruits. 



A traiic journal of this city publishes a letter from a firm in Liverpool, statino; that 

 large (:|uantitics of canned peaches could " be sold abroad if they were put up hon- 

 estly ; but there have been heavy consignments of unripe fruit, which nobody could 

 use, and, as a consequence, the demand has fallen off, and it will take a long time to 

 recover from the discredit." The same is said of oysters. Our cmned peas and 

 beans do not sell, because they are so inferior to those put up by the French. Toma- 

 toes and sweet corn do not sell at all in England, nor are likely to. for the reason that 

 no taste has been acquired for them, and, perhaps, the climate is unfavorable. 



Otto of Roses. 



The Attar, or Otto of Roses, most precious of all perfumes, is made almost entirely 

 among the Balkan mountains. There are at least one hundred and fifty places where 

 its preparation is carried on, the most important of all being Kizanlick. The roses 

 are planted in rows, like vines. The flowers are gathered in May, and with the green 

 calyx leaves attached, are subject to distillation. Five thousand pounds of roses 

 yield one pound of oil. 



Itvutorotion of J^'oresf.s. 



France has been the scene of greatest success in replanting vacant ground with 

 trees. The reign of Napoleon III, will ever bear a memorable name for the decided 

 encouragement which he gave to this branch of agriculture. An interesting experi- 

 ment was begun by his direction in the department of the Hautes Alpes, to resotre 

 lands that were desolated by the removal of the original forests. For years the 

 country was destitute, agriculture declined, village after village became deserted, 

 until the department had lost 11,000 of its population. The peasantry opposed with 

 the greatest violence any attempt at the replacement of the forests, and the govern- 

 ment was obliged at last to force them to returf the barren districts. The result is 

 said to be most satisfactory : the covering of sod has retained the rain, instead of 

 allowing it to run off in torrents, and the desolate, barren districts of the last few years 

 are reassuming the luxuriant vegetation with which they were clothed in olden times. 



This subject is also beginning to be ventilated in England, and they are in a great 

 state of mind. In former days half England was a forest, but by degrees acre after 

 acre has f een disforestod. Even the limits of Windsor Forest, which early in the 

 century formed a circuit of fifty-six miles, have been greatly curtailed ; and the New 

 Forest, where Rufus fell, in Hampshire, is the only considerable one left. Near 

 London is Epping Forest, which fifty years ago was very extensive, but has 

 gradually been filched away by neigboring property owners until there are only some 

 three thousand acres left. Lately, however, the Londoners have become very much 

 in earnest about allowing no further encroachment, and even insisting upon repara- 

 tion, and as the corporation of London, with its long purse and lawoflScers, has taken 

 the matter up, vitrorously supported by the press, there seems a chance that the 

 venerable forest, which contains magnificent old oaks, will be preserved. 



The forest lands of the crown are somehow very badly mana<red, and yield a mis- 

 erable return. It is computed that if the New Forest, which lies in a lovely district 

 on the Southampton water, were sold in lots, it would realize $10,000,000. The 

 scenery is very picturesque, not merely thick woods, but broad expanses of velvety 

 turf overshadowed by splendid single trees ; fine groves, glades and vistas, delightful 

 for summer ridina". 



