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some future period, to talk on the suject of trichina. Dr. Brown 

 stated that he would respond next Tuesday. By a vote of the 

 Club, the five minute rule was suspended; and one hour designated 

 as at the disposal of the speaker, after he commences his lecture 

 on the subject of trichinosis, on April 9. 



Allens' Scuffle Hoe. 



Mr. G. P. Allen, of Conn., exhibited a scuffle hoe. This is ser- 

 rated on each side as deeply as a saw mill saw; it is worked as 

 one walks backward, and from the appearance looked as though 

 it would be useful. 



Florida Fruit. 



Mr. Solon Robinson, who has just returned from Florida, brought 

 with him specimens of oranges and lemons of immense size, some 

 Df which weighed one pound each. He stated that he saw orange 

 trees in Florida that produced several thousand specimens of fine 

 fruit. 



In answer to the inquiry about farms in Florida, he replied, 

 there are no farms. There were a few gardens on the peninsula, 

 but properly no farms. 



The price of potatoes in Florida, and everything else, is the 

 price of such things in New York added to the freight from this 

 city to that place. Although that is a country of oranges and 

 lemons, the inhabitants do not raise enough for their own use. 

 Orano-es were selling; for eight and ten cents each in Florida, while 

 such fruit sells in New York for one and two cents each. There 

 is an abundance of Government land there at $1 to $1.25 per acre. 

 Florida is a vast wilderness. 



There is no such article as cultivated grass in that State. Yel- 

 low clover is indigenous to that country. Mocking birds are a 

 nuisance there, as they destro}^ most of the Iruit. It is the most 

 lovely climate in the country. 



Pruning Grape Vines. 

 The subject of pruning vines, and what constitutes vines of a 

 first, or second, or third class, was called up, whereupon Mr. R. 

 W. Holton, Haverstraw, N. Y., was invited to the black-board to 

 show, by rough diagrams, how any grape vine that has a space of 

 six feet square may be made to produce ten pounds of grapes 

 annuall}'. He cuts ofi* the stem of the vine about ten or twelve 

 inches above the surface of the ground ; then trains one arm to 



