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ments. And although the odor of its blossoms be unpleasant for 

 a short season, it does not harbor myriads of nauseous 

 worms, and at all other times the tree is beautiful and 

 beneficial. If you go for extermination, let it be only for that 

 portion of the trees which blossom, as the others certainly are 

 harmless. I Avould not recommend planting ailanthus trees near 

 country houses, but I have earnestly urged people to plant them 

 in many waste places, because they grow quickly, are ornamental, 

 useful for shade, valuable for fuel and timber. Grown by the 

 side of gardens, lawns or cultivated grounds, the sprouts are an 

 unmitigated nuisance. The natural tendency of the tree seems to 

 look biick to the habitat in Asia, and grow up a jungle. We 

 acknowledge that the odor of ailanthus blossoms is unpleasant ; 

 perhaps not more than one person in a hundred is affected by it in 

 the manner described by our correspondent. 



Prof. Nash. — Probably there are cases of persons who are really 

 affected to nausea by the smell of ailanthus, but as a general thino^ 

 I am satisfied that it is more the effect of imagination than reality. 

 Some persons are affected unpleasantly by the smell of roses. 

 Some people make a great outcry if they happen to smell the odor 

 of a skunk, and where it comes very thick, it may be unpleasant, 

 yet it is not unhealthy. It is fashionable to cry out against the 

 ailanthus. If the odor was "far fetched and dear bought," as 

 musk is, it would be just as pleasant. That makes some persons 

 nauseated. 



The Secretary. — By cutting back ailanthus once in three years, 

 the whole effort of the tree is expended in making new wood, and 

 it does not blossom. It would be a great pity to raise a prejudice 

 against this tree, to destroy it, as it grows in the poorest soils, as 

 well as pavements. 



Pennsylvania Faejming. 

 Mr. T. A. Bauer, Upper Allen, Cumberland county. Pa. : " I 

 plow clover sod in autumn or March ; and lime, 50 bushels to the 

 acre, and plant with corn. This I harvest by cutting close to the 

 ground, putting in shocks to cure. It is husked at the shocks, the 

 stalks tied in bundles, hauled near the barn and stacked. In 

 the spring, the corn stubble is plowed for oats. The oat stubble 

 is dressed with barnyard manure, plowed and harrowed and left 

 till it is time to sow wheat ; then go over with a large cultivator, 

 and afterward drill in the wheat. If intendin<r to make the field 

 into mowing land, I sow three pecks of timothy seed (per ten 



