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do not exercise the })roper neatness and 

 care in handling their fruits, just as 

 there are some houses that are willing 

 to injure their trade by packing trash. 

 We are glad to say, however, there are 

 many houses to which this does not 

 apply, for they require as much clean- 

 liness and neatness in their packing- 

 houses and in the canning of fruits, as 

 can be found in private kitchens. These 

 tirms have justly won a high reputation 

 for their goods, and are more than repaid 

 by the enhanced prices which they com- 

 mand. When all packing-houses are 

 run on the same principle, and light 

 weights and trash are no longer known, 

 then the canned goods trade will begin 

 to hold the position which its importance 

 should command." 



A TRELLIS FOR PEAS. 



The best substitute for pea brush we 

 have found, is a trellis of galvanized 

 iron wire. The peas are sown in double 

 rows, six inches apart. A post, six 

 inches in diameter, is set firmly at each 

 end of the row ; it may be round or 

 half round, set three feet in the ground, 

 and of a height suited to the variety of 

 pea. As soon as the vines are large 

 enough, the wire is made fast to the 

 post, about six inches from the ground, 

 carried to and passed around the post 

 at the other end, and back to the start- 

 ing point. Here it is made fast ; it 

 may be cut off, but still better, two or 

 three turns are taken around the post 

 and another double wire stretched about 

 eight inches above the first, and so on 

 until as many wires as needed are put 

 in place. We use No. 18 wire, which 

 measures 150 feet to the pound. If 

 over 200 feet long, a similar post should 

 be set mid-way of the row. Stakes 

 (plasterers' laths will answer) are set 

 every ten or fifteen feet along the row, 

 to keep the wires from sagging. These 

 have notches cut in them, in which the 

 wires are placed ; or the wires may be 



attached to them by means of a small 

 wire or cord. When no longer needed, 

 the wire is wound up upon a reel, and, 

 with the posts, stored away for another 

 year. Pea-growers for market allow 

 the vines to lie upon the ground, and 

 claim that the crop is not enough 

 larger when brushed to pay the cost of 

 cutting and placing the sticks. In the 

 garden, neatness, and especially the 

 greater ease of picking, make it neces- 

 sary to use brush, or a substitute. 

 Those who cannot get brush, will find 

 the wires, supported as above described, 

 very convenient. The chief precaution 

 to be observed is, to have the wires of 

 this trellis so near together that tlie 

 vines can reach them as soon as a sup- 

 port is needed. — Am. Agn'cuItnrisL 



WATERMELONS. 



J. W. Shaw, of Ohio, writing to the 

 Fruit Recorder^ tells how he succeeds 

 in raising melons : 



"The orround was in corn last summer 



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and produced such a yield that the 

 thought struck me that it would be a 

 good place for watermelons. I plowed 

 the ground when dry, (manured heavily 

 with sheep manure before for corn,) 

 and manured the melons in the hill. I 

 first harrowed the ground until it was 

 as fine as an ash heap ; furrowed the 

 ground one way ; made nice, flat hills ; 

 planted from three to five seeds per 

 hill and thinned to three plants to the 

 hill ; I manured a part in the hill with 

 sheep manure, and a part with rich 

 black loam which I obtained from the 

 fence corners ; covered about two* inches 

 deep. The melons came up and grew 

 very fast ; such leaves, I never saw the 

 like, and I never saw such a set of 

 melons anywhere ; vines, very dark 

 green. A part, that was not manured 

 in the hill, does not look so well. It 

 has been very little trouble to keep the 

 bugs ofi* this year ; I put fine plaster on 



