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commanded from twenty to twenty-five 

 cents per quart wholesale in New York 

 market, and I have since been informed 

 that the lowest price realized for it during 

 the season was eighteen cents per quart. 

 As evidence of its value as a market berry 

 these figures certainly count for more 

 than a volume of words." — Farm aixd 

 Garden, 



IMPROVED FRUIT EVAPORATOR. 



This apparatus, patented by Mr. 

 William H. Reed, of Cliffdale, III., 

 consists of a reel adapted to receive in 

 its double arms a series of fruit crates, 

 the reel being supported on a shaft in 

 a heating chamber, and rotated so as to 

 bring the crates successively over the 

 heater and to create a current of air 

 which rapidly carries off the moisture 

 from the fruit. The heating chamber 

 is fitted with a ventilator at the top, 

 and air inlets at the sides, about the 

 shaft. . The bottom of the furnace at the 

 sides is tiUetl in with fire-resisting clay 

 to carry the heat of the furnace directly 

 u[) to the reel without great loss by 

 radiation. There are air supply open- 

 ings with dampei-3 at the lower part of 

 the heating chamber for supplying the 

 amount of air required. 



The chamber may be heated in vari- 

 ous ways, either by a furnace, or by 

 means of a stove, or by steam. The 

 • rates which fit into the radial arms 

 Mif^ provided with wire gauze sides, 

 so that the air has access to all sides of 

 ilio fruit as it is carried around by the 

 iv.d. 



The capacity of this machine may be 

 increased hy extending the sliaft and 

 adding sections to the reel. In this 

 . ase the sections are geared so that any 

 one may be stopped or revolved without 

 interfering with the others. 



This evaporator is very rapid in its 

 operation, and produces uniform evapo- 

 ration without shifting the crates, and 

 without special attention. The reel is 



revolved by suitable power or by hand. 

 — Scientific American. 



CHERRIES. 

 The severe cold weather of last win- 

 ter injured my Cherry trees, some of 

 them severely. The old Morellos are 

 the only ones that did not suffer. The 

 branches of the others are killed for a 

 distance of from one to two feet from 

 the extremities. It is the first instance 

 of the kind I have met with. Apples, 

 Pears, Plums, and especially Peaches, 

 succumb to the winters of this latitude 

 (exactly on the fortieth parallel) but my 

 cherries were never before injured by 

 frost. They are upon rather high and 

 dry ground. The lowest temperature 

 which I noticed during the winter was 

 twenty-eight degrees below zero. The 

 thermometer stood at that several morn- 

 ings, and for six weeks it rarely rose 

 above zero. Sj'everal times during my 

 residence here the mercury has sunk 

 to twenty-six or twenty-eight degrees 

 below zero ; but it was for only a short 

 time. Was it the long continuance 

 rather than the severity of the cold 

 which killed the trees 1 Other fruit 

 trees in my orchards suffered much. 



Those parts of the branches not kill- 

 ed are full of bloom, and appear to be 

 full of vitality. The trunks are not at 

 all injured ; at least, it is not apparent 

 if they are. 



The cherry is the only fruit tree 

 which I can recommend for shade. The 

 tramping of stock injures all others, but 

 it has no effect upon the hardier Cher- 

 ries. They can also be planted along 

 road-ways and paths where the passing 

 of vehicles and animals would prove 

 injurious toother trees. The orchard- 

 ist will find this quality of the Cherry 

 quite valuable and important, for he 

 can plant it along the drives between 

 his orchards. 



I believe that, as a general thing, 



