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This shows an average of temperature for the first half of this May 2° 

 above the average. This gives promise of great crops of fruit. The 

 cherry trees are promising remarkable crops, and so are apple trees. 

 Although we have had considerable wet weather, the rain has not fallen 

 sufficient to injure anything. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



Mr. Lawton named the following cherry trees as valuable : May Duke, 

 Black Eagle, Frazer's Black Tartarian, Plum-stone Morello, English 

 Morello, the Napoleon Bigarreau. The Ox-heart is a good cherry, but 

 not certain to produce. Bloodgood's Honey cherry is a good sort, and the 

 tree very ornamental and grows very large. A cherry presented to me 

 under the name of Musgrave is a good cherry. I have another, the Ellers- 

 lie cherry, that is very curious, as all the limbs grow in serpentine form. 

 He denounced the old Morellos and Black Mazards as nuisances on any 

 place. I advise every one to select such trees as they know succeed well 

 in their neighborhood. 



Mr. Pardee said that the " Early Purple Guigne" is the earliest known 

 variety of cherries. 



CRANBERRIES. 



Solon Robinson. — I hold in my hand an interesting letter upon the sub- 

 ject of cranberries, which I will read ; it is as follows : 



"Barnegat, Ocean Co., N. J., May 8, 1858. 



'■''Dear Sir — I notice in The Tribune at a late meeting of the Farmers' 

 Club, that the subject of transplanting cranberries was brought up. Could 

 you put me in a way to find out what the New England cranberry growers 

 consider a good crop, natural growth and transplanted? 



" There are scores of acres in this vicinity that yield often over 100 

 bushels per acre from natural growth. Transplanting is here a new thing, 

 and not been carried on long enough to know how successful it will prove. 

 The heaviest yielding cranberry bog in this section is one in the woods 

 some twenty miles from any habitation (except cabins), which is said to have 

 yielded 300 bushels to the acre one season. In the vicinity of this bog are 

 hundreds of acres of land which appears to be naturally such as at your 

 meeting was described as the best adapted for transplanting. As this land 

 is held at only a nominal price (from $1 to #3 per acre) it would doubtless 

 pay to try transplanting there. At any rate it will be tried. It ought to 

 pay better than New England land, for which, in addition to the higher 

 price of land, heavy expenses sometimes have to be incurred to make it 

 precisely like this is naturally. Our shore people here are nearly all sea- 

 faring men, but of late some few of them are turning their attention to the 

 soil. Their experiments thus far prove that though our land may not be 

 as good as in other sections, yet it will prove as profitable to till, especially 

 as we are but a day's journey from both New York and Philadelphia 

 markets. 



" Have any of the members of your club ever experimented with the 



