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The Horticulturist" s Rule- Book, 



Average Prices of Various Orchid Flowers, continued. 

 grande, Lycaste Skinneri (price sometimes as low as 50 cen- 

 times), Ccelogyne cristata (per truss), Cattleya labiata, Mossia:, 

 Perdvaliana, Gaskeliana, Perrini, Pinelli, elegans, Triana:. 



From i franc and 50 centimes to 2 francs : Various Vandas, 

 Cattleya Domiana. 



Trusses of ALrides and Saccolabium sell from a franc and a 

 half to 3 francs, or even for 5 francs for extra good specimens. 



12. Weights of Various Varieties of Apples per Bushel. 



The following varieties, just from the trees in October, gave 

 the following weights : 



Pounds. 

 47 



Pounds. 



Baldwin 50 



Belmont 50 



Ben Davis 47 



Bunker Hill 49 



Cabashae 57 



Esopus Spitzenburg 44 



Fallawater 48 



Golden Russet 53 



Lawver 47 



Nickajack 51 



Northern Spy 46 



Pennock 



Rambo 50 



Rhode Island Greening . . .52 



Roxbury Russet 50 



Rubicon 46 



Stark ^6 



Swaar 51 



Sweet Bough 39 



Talman Sweet 48 



Tompkins King 44 



Yellow Bellefleur 46 



43. Various Recipes and Rules. 



Black ink for zinc labels. Verdigris, i ounce ; salam- 

 inoniac, i ounce ; lamp black, y z ounce ; rain watsr, y 2 pint. 

 Mix in an earthenware mortar or jar and put up in small bot- 

 tles. To be shaken before use and used with a clean quill pen 

 on bright zinc. 



To prevent boilers from filling with sediment or scale. 



i. Exercise care to get clean water and that which contains 

 little lime. 2. Blow it out often. It can be blown out a little 

 every day, and occasionally it should be blown off entirely. 3. 

 Put slippery elm bark In che boiler tank. Or, if slippery elm 

 is not handy, use potato peelings, flax seed, oak bark, spent tan 



