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some years than others. Some years they appear to be nearly all 

 destroyed. They flourish most in wet seasons or in wet soil. His 

 recommendation therefore, is only to plant potatoes upon the dry- 

 est land. 



Trees on the Highway and Live Fence-Posts. 

 Mr. Lincoln Fay, Portland, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., says: "I 

 have a row of cherry trees along the highway, eight feet apart, 

 which serve for fence-posts of the very best kind ; and the crop of 

 these trees some years equals the interest of $1,000 per acre. 

 Nothing but liji;htning has ever broken down the fence. I also 

 have forty rods of chestnut trees, eight feet apart, along the high- 

 way, which I am also using for fence-posts. I have also thirty 

 rods of maple set the same distance. Opposite the maples stand 

 a row of sixty early Astrachan apple trees, giving an abundance 

 of fruit to the owner as well as to travelers. Cherries, chestnut 

 snd apples furnish fruit, and in a few years the maples will yield 

 sugar. These trees add beauty and value to the farm. Upon a 

 new line of road ju.'t opened, I have planted apple trees twelve 

 feet apart for fence-posts, as I have found eight feet closer than 

 necessary. If a wind-bi-eak as well as fence-posts be desirable, it is 

 better to plant the trees eight feet apart. Upon all division lines 

 ash trees might be planted and cut for fuel at the hight of the 

 fence, as the stumps will always send forth sprouts. In planting 

 trees along the highway, the most serious trouble I have had has 

 been to get the cattle law enforced. Copperheads, hen-roost rob- 

 bers, and all that class, against which we have to guard our grane- 

 ries, with lock and bolt, call me ' hard to the poor,' because I 

 won't suffer their cattle to steal a precarious living in the high- 

 ways, although I allow 'them to cut all the grass on the road side." 



Red-bud or Judas Tree. 



Mr. H. T. Hoxie scuds some seeds of the above tree, " the flow- 

 ers of which are bright red, shaped like those of the garden-bean, 

 startiug before the leaves, and growing in clusters upon all the old 

 branches, so thickly do they Jiide the limbs. Soak the seed in 

 warm Avater until they sprout. (I succeed thus with Osage orange 

 seed.) Please give the true name of this tree ?" 



Mr. Solon Robinson. — The true name is Cercis, though it is well 

 known among botanists as Judas tree. It belongs to the order 

 Legumiuoste. From seeds sown in spring, and transplanted to 



