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ash and put tcnnons together with white lead. Iron off with light braces of best 

 Swede iron, and give two coats of good paint. If wheel is made Ught and edges 

 neatly dres.sed the weight should not exceed 30 pounds. 



BOX FOR USING ON BARROW. 



End pieces ^ inch thick, 6 inches wide and 2 feet 5 inches long. Make 

 a hand hole in the centre. Nail on for sides two pieces ^ inch thick, 5 inches 

 wide and 3 feet 7 inches long. Nail flush with the bottom. Cover the bottom 

 with good half-inch lumber, and champer off the ends even with the sides 5 

 inches back. Make as many of these boxes as required. They will hold about 

 three bushels when filled level with the sides. When wheeled in, two hands 

 can set them off. They can be piled up over each other as high as desired. 

 These boxes are made just the right size to hold six half-bushel picking-boxes. 

 And if enough picking-boxes are on hand, it is much the best to set them, when 

 full, directly into the barrow box, and when wheeled in, set them off and fill up 

 with empty ones. Then the tomatoes can be wiped directly out of the picking- 

 boxes into the market boxes. 



(To be continued.) 



St. Mary's, Ont. . S. H. Mitchell. 



NumbO and ParagCOn Chestnuts. — Among the twenty or more varie 

 ties of foreign parentage which are now being propagated under varietal names, 

 the Numbo and Paragon are probably the best known, and have been the most 

 widely disseminated. They are both of what is usually termed the Spanish 

 type, having large leaves, coarse sturdy twigs covered with smooth, dark yellow- 

 ish brown bark. Buds, and especially the terminal ones, large and prominent. 

 Burrs large, uniformly thick and fleshy. Spines long, over half to an inch, 

 branching strong and sharp. The Numbo was raised from imported nuts at 

 Morrisville, Pa., about forty years ago, and has been very thoroughly tested. 

 The burrs are moderately large and distinctly pointed ; nuts large, smooth, of a 

 light brown color, and like the burrs decidedly pointed ; of fair quality for a nut 

 of foreign parentage. Tree hardy and prolific even when young. 



Paragon : origin uncertain but said to have been raised from a foreign nut 

 in the garden of a gentleman residing in Philadelphia. Burrs of extra large size, 

 from four to nearly six inches in diameter, but the spines are enormously long, 

 or about an inch, and are very strong and abundant. The burrs are broad, flat 

 or slightly depressed on the top ; nuts large, broader than deep, smooth, with 

 several very prominent ridges extending from base to apex. Color dark mahogany 

 as soon as mature. In quality much sweeter and of finer grain than the usual 

 run of varieties of European parentage. In growth of tree and productiveness 

 it is one of the very best of its class. The trees appear to be perfectly hardy 

 here in northern New Jersey, where a few years since they were subjected to a 

 temperature of 20° below zero.^ — American Gardening. 



