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off by a frost; but if bigh land culture succeed, the no one so well qualified ns Dr. Dadd for this im- 



loss in this way will be in a great measure pre- 

 vented. 



ACKNOV/LEDGMENTS. 



About four weeks ago we received from Leonard 

 Clieney, Southbridge, some early Sturbridge 

 peaches. This peach is medium size and of ex- 

 cellent quality. Mr. Cheney has kindly given us 

 a history of this fruit, and its lime of ripening in 

 different years. It usually ripens about the middle 

 of August, and is probably ten days earlier than 

 any other valuable peach cultivated inthis country. 

 We think it will be a valuable acquisition, as it 

 considerably extends the period of using this most 

 delicious fruit. 



From Isaac Southgate, Leicester, a box of very 

 fine plums. This plum appears to be a new varie- 

 ty; it is of medial size; almost round; slightly 

 flattened at the end; yellow, when fully ripe; flesh 

 very tender, juicy, rich and delicious, it is an ex- 

 cellent grower and early bearer. It ripens a few 

 days earlier than the Green Gage. 



From G. J. Hay ward, Hancock, N. H., some 

 apples of medial size, very fine flavor. We do not 

 know the name. 



From S. Fletcher, Winchester, some cranber- 

 ries of fine appearance, with some vines. He 

 makes the following remarks upon the subject: "I 

 send you vines and the fruit of the cranberry, found 

 on a gravelly dry spot on side of a railroad; ground 

 appears not to have been disturbed in building the 

 road; some ten feet higher is a wet meadow. 

 A'ines run, as you will see, like blackberry vines, 

 crossing and interlacing each other. Fruii was 

 very wormy year before last. Soil appears poor 

 and mossy, gravelly and dry." 



From James Hyde & Son, Newton Centre, 

 some fair looking apples of medial size, with the 

 following remarks, though the fruit is not more 

 than second or third rate. 



j\Iu. Cole: — We send you some of the "Metcali 

 Sweet;" you will soon perceive that they are not 

 first rate, a slight bitter is perceptible, yet many 

 like it for an eating apple. The tree is a good 

 grower and great bearer, fruit generally being fair; 

 the tree is completely loaded this year. Though 

 not more than second or third rate for eating, yet 

 it may be valuable for stock; we have never tried 

 it for baking. The trees bear young. 



portant undertaking. We trust that this work will 

 be liberally patronized throughout the country. 



Muck Manual. — This is a new and thiid edi- 

 tion of Dr. Dana's popular work on manure; the 

 whole matter has been revised, and numerous 

 pages of new matter have been added. We are 

 pleased to see this valuable work revised and im- 

 proved, and published and bound in neat form. 

 Lowell: by James P. Walker, 61 Merrimac St. 

 Boston: Little & Brown. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



The American Veterinary Journal. — This 

 work has just made its appearance. It is edited by 

 Dr. George H. Dadd, veterinary surgeon, and pub- 

 lished by him at No. 1 and 2 Haymarket Square 

 It is a neat octavo monthly of 32 pages, at one 

 dollar a year. A work of this kind is very much 

 needed in our country, and we are pleased to see 

 it started under the care of one who is so well 

 qualified to conduct it wiih ability. We know of 



BOG HOES. 



These implements are very convenient for cutting 

 up hassock, roots, bushes, &c., in wet meadows; al- 

 so for grubbing up bushes, digging out small stones 

 by the sides of walls and fences; they save much 

 hard wear and breakage of a common hoe, and are 

 far more effectual for rough and coarse operations. 

 One of these implements has a pick at one end, 

 which is very handy in digging out small stones and 

 in digging in hard ground. 



To take ink out of linen.— Editors' and clerks' 

 wives will learn with pleasure that to take a piece 

 of tallow, melt it, and dip the spotted part of the 

 linen into the melted tallow, the linen may be 

 washed, and the spots will disappear, without in- 

 juring the linen. 



