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wheels. This pump was worked very satisfactorily with all 

 growths except large trees, where the time required to spray 

 a single tree is so great that the power acquired by the motion 

 of the wheels becomes exhausted before the tree is thoroughly 

 sprayed in every part. This has necessitated driving around 

 the tree several times, or working the pump by hand. Even 

 with this pump, however, tall trees cannot be readily reached, 

 and to obtain more reliable and more constant power a steam 

 pump is being constructed, which is guaranteed to carry three 

 streams through the ordinary three-quarter-inch hose at one 

 time, fifty feet high. This will enable the hose to be taken 

 into tall ornamental trees, and the work to be done more 

 effectually, economically and quickly than by any of the 

 ordinary hand or machine pumps. The pump, engine and 

 tank, holding one hundred to one hundred and fifty gallons, 

 will be compactly mounted on a low truck, with wheels hav- 

 ing six-inch tires and bolster springs, that it may be drawn 

 over soft or rough ground with the least jolting possible. 

 The weight of engine, pump, tank and truck is expected not 

 to exceed eight hundred pounds, and when the tank is filled 

 to be easily drawn by two horses. 



Vegetables. 



During the past season the following number of varieties 

 of vegetables has been tested : — 



Asparagus, 3 varieties ; artichoke, 2 ; beans, 11 ; beets, 6 ; 

 Brussells sprouts, 2 ; carrots, G ; cabbages, 8 ; cauliflowers, 

 5 ; celery, 10 ; cucumbers, 6 ; sweet corn, 7 ; dandelion, 2 ; 

 endive, 2 ; kohl-rabi, 2 ; lettuce, 5 ; onions, 6 ; parsley, 2 ; 

 peppers, 4; egg-plant, (5; peas, 7; pumpkins, 4; radishes, 

 6; squashes, 11; spinach, ."> : parsnips, G; tomatoes, 1G ; 

 rhubarb, 4. 



Seed Testing. 



Seed testing is of the greatest practical importance to the 

 farmer, market gardener and the florist, hut at the same time 

 it is most difficult so to conduct it as to obtain entirely satis- 

 factory results. It will be hardly possible', with the present 

 equipment, to make trial of the seeds of all of the varieties 

 of farm and garden crops put upon the market by different 



