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excellent. It will be seen that this 

 gives the greatest number and weight 

 of seeds to a pod as well as the largest 

 pods. Still, it must not be overlooked 

 that whereas this averages but 20 pods 

 to a vine, the Edinburgh Beauty, for 

 instance, bears 50. 



Pride of the Market. — Vigorous vines 

 two feet high, branching laterally only. 

 Notes as to quality missing. 



July 12th, 200 pods weighed 64 

 ounces, contained 1,388 seeds which 

 weighed 32 ounces. 



REMARKS. 



What is gained either to the market 

 or home gardener by raising varieties 

 of peas that grow five feet high, when 

 other kinds growing from two to three 

 feet high will yield more peas of as good 

 a quality % Compare, for example, the 

 old and favorite Champion of England 

 with Carter's Stratagem. 



Why should we sow smooth peas, 

 which are always of inferior quality, 

 when varieties of wrinkled peas may 

 be sown, which are of the first quality 

 and will yield just as well? 



Upon the south half of the pea test- 

 plot, salt at the rate of nine bushels to 

 the acre was sown broadcast. There 

 was no difierence in germination, 

 growth or yield that could be dis- 

 covered! 



SHOULD CONCENTRATED FERTIL- 

 IZERS BE DRILLED IN OR SOWN 

 BROADCAST ? 



If the most rapid growth from seed is 

 desired the manures and seed should be 

 drilled together; in this case, however, 

 the manure should be confined to super- 

 phosphate alone, as almost all other ar- 

 tificial manures are injurious to very 

 young plants. Our turnip crops suffer 

 greatly from a small fly, which eats off 

 the leaves as they start from the ground. 

 We mix the seed and superphosphate 



together, and push the plant through its 

 early stages with great rapidity; This 

 is, therefore, a special case for a special 

 object; and for all other cases I should 

 recommend sowing manures broadcast 

 as evenly as possible over the whole 

 surface of the soil. Roots follow the 

 food. If you place the food in one place, 

 the roots will concentrate there, conse- 

 quently they will not have as much 

 command of the moisture of the soil as 

 they would have if spread all over the 

 soil. Except, therefore, in the case of 

 superphosphate with turnips the whole 

 of our manure was sown broadcast, and 

 plowed or harrowed into the land before 

 the seed is sown. With Autumn-sown 

 wheat we apply salts of ammonia and 

 nitrate in the Spring. — J. B. Lawes, in 

 Rural New Yorker. 



AMONG THE RASPBERRIES 



It has been my good fortune during 

 the present week to enjoy a run through 

 two of the leading small fruit nurseries 

 and gardens in the region near New 

 York City — those of J. T. Lovett, at 

 Little Silver, N. J., and Rev. E. P. 

 Roe, at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. 



The raspberries, both the red varie- 

 ties and blackcaps, were in the height 

 of perfection, and it afforded an excel- 

 lent opportunity to consider the merits 

 of the various sorts that were growing 

 both in the nursery rows, and in the 

 fields in which the pickers were at 

 work. I was particularly pleased with 

 the "exhibition plats" which were 

 found at Mr. Roe's place. Here the 

 different varieties, old and new, were 

 brought together side by side in short 

 rows, and under the same circumstances 

 of soil and culture they offered an accu- 

 rate and rapid means of comparing and 

 contrasting the varieties At a glance, 

 the comparative vigor of the canes can 

 be seen, and the relative production of 

 the kinds, size of berries, color, &c., as 



