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raised g,bout ten or fifteen bushels of potatoes, six or 

 seven bushels of beets and carrots, some English tur- 

 nips and rata bagas, and a few cabbages and onions, 

 as many as our folks wanted to use. We have also 

 had beans, peas and corn, what we wanted to use 

 green ; and I have annually had about three or four 

 bushels of dry corn, say two bushels of common yel- 

 low corn, one bushel of pop corn, and sweet corn 

 enough to plant myself and supply all my neighbors. 

 Also, I have annually raised cucumbers, water and 

 muskmelons, summer and winter squashes, one or two 

 hundred, or one thousand pounds, of pumpkins. All 

 this has been raised on less than half an acre of 

 ^ound, including buildings and drive-way — and I 

 have had more vegetables for years in my family than 

 some men that cultivate one hundred acres — and all 

 an poor, gravelly New Hampshire land, without any 

 help but my girls in the (lower department. And as 

 GoLDSMifH says, " we make every rood of ground 

 support its man." — Correspondent of the JVew Eng- 

 Umd Fanner. 



SMITH'S POMOLO(;iCAL GARDENS. 



TiiR editor of the California Farmer, in giving an 

 account of a visit to Smith's Pomological Gardens, 

 at Sacramento, writes as follows: 



" We next examined the elegant, costly and com- 

 plete engine and apparatus for irrigating the gardens. 

 Mr. Sjiitu having gone east the past year, he examined 

 the various inventions for the purposes of irrigation, 

 and selected the one now used on his grounds — 

 Worthi.vgton's Safety Steam Pump and Fire En- 

 ^ne.' The power and capacity of this small but 

 p jwerful engine are truly astounding ; for while it is 

 not more than ten or twelve feet in length and two to 

 three feut wide, it is capable of throwing twenty thou- 

 sand gallons per hour easily. It is one of the most 

 perfect and neatly-fiu'shed pieces of machinery we 

 have seen. Pipes are led from the reservoir over a 

 large portion of the grounds, the water flowing so free 



to completely saturate the whole ; the soil of this 

 garden being a fine sandy alluvial, the result is of the 

 highest possible good, Mr. S. being able to continue 

 planting all the year round. The cost of this ma- 

 chinery, complete, in New York, was $1200; freight, 

 extras, putting up, pipes and layers, &e., brought the 

 amount to about .$3000. We saw the working of 

 every part of the machinery, and found it the ne plus 

 ultra. 



" We close by giving the statement of the crop of 

 two Peach trees in this garden, and the amount re- 

 ceived the present season, in cash. After paying 

 commission to those who sold in the city, the net pro- 

 ceeds amounted to three hundred and twenty-six dol- 

 lars and Jifiy cents; in addition, Mr. S. has used and 

 contributed among his friends sullicient to have 

 swelled the amount to over four hundred dollars." 



Thk New Roohelle Blackberry. — We are re- 

 quested Ijy Mr. Roosevelt to say that his price for 

 the plants, as stated by us in a late number of the 

 Farmer, is a mistake. It should have read ticenfy- 

 fij>e dollars a hundred. He has already disposed of 

 his stock of plants for the coming spring. 



THE CURL IN PEACH TREES. 



The aphis may easily be got under by the use of 

 tobacco water, and attention. The tobacco water 

 may be obtained from a manufactory, if you should 

 live near one ; but I find it quite as economical to 

 buy the tobacco and make the water myself, as I am 

 obliged to pay nearly as much for jars, carriage and 

 porterage as the water costs. I get a pound of the 

 best shag tobacco, which costs 3s. 6d., and a pound 

 of soda, which costs IJd., and dissolve the soda in 

 two gallons of boihng water ; it is then poured ou 

 the tobacco, stirred, and allowed to remain a few 

 minutes ; the liquor is then strained, and two gallons 

 more of boiling water added ; this is again sti'ained, 

 and made up to about eight gallons by the addition 

 of cold water, and put on the trees at 100'^ of heat, 

 on a still moist evening (if one can be found at any 

 time of the year). This is applied with a fine syringe, 

 and the quantity is sufficient fo^ twelve trees, each 

 occupying 140 feet of wall. If you have shading 

 materials at hand, the trees may be shaded in case 

 the sun break out strongly. The mixture may be left 

 on till the next evening, when the engine should be 

 used pretty freely, in order to wash off not only the 

 mixture, but also the dead and dying in.sect.s, and as 

 many as possible of those that tiie mixture does not 

 kill, which, if properly applied, will be few. But if 

 shading be inconvenient, the engine and clean water 

 must be used in the morning following the application 

 of the tobacco and soda, or the sun, being a-ssisted 

 by the crystals of the soda, may scorch the young 

 leaves. The engine and clean water should be used 

 frequently, to dislodge any insects that may be again 

 establishing a colony on any part of the tree. It has 

 been computed by, I think, Bo.\net, that an aphis 

 will multiply itself in one season 8,000,000 of times, 

 if left undisturbed in a favorable situation; and of aU 

 places, I know of none more favorable to them in 

 the early part of the season than the Peach treej; 

 lience the necessity of observing the old maxim that 

 a "stitch in time saves nine." Tlie trees will rarely 

 want more than one dressing of tobacco, if well at- 

 tended to whh clean water alter the fiist application 

 — or, at the outside, two dressings of tobacco will 

 suffice for one season. — Cox on the Peach and JYec- 

 tarine. 



Extraordinary Result. — A farmer stuck a pea in 

 a potato, and planted them in March last. The pea 

 produced a stock which was covered with pods, and 

 the potato gave eleven healthy roots. By this sys- 

 tem, is it not possible, not only to obtain a two-fold 

 crop, but to prevent the malady to potatoes? — Ex- 

 change. 



A Cheap and Excellent Manure for Goose- 

 berries. — A French nurseryman says that exhausted 

 tan-bark, spread on the surface around the roots of 

 gooseberry bushe.s. is an effectual remedy for cater- 

 pillars. A cart load of the bark is sufficient for a 

 large garden. 



Be Open and Sincere. — ^It is material to the preser- 

 vation of friendship, that openness of temper and 

 manner on both hands be cultivated. 



