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ances, it will make anotlier : but it is probable that three crops will be the 

 most profitable. 



In renewing, the field can be turned under, and new plants set the same 

 season, and they will turn a very fair crop ; but in this case it would be well 

 to add a fair supply of barnyard-manure. 



^Vith the heavy mulch no runners can take root, and require no looking 

 after ; bat, after the mulch is taken off", all runners are to be treated as 

 weeds. 



If the plants are set in rows both ways at the distance of two feet, they 

 may be worked at less expense per acre, but not per bushel ; and that, after 

 all, is the main point. In one case, four tons of hay will cover a given 

 number of plants : in the other, it takes double that quantity. 



What we aim at is to produce annual crops at the least cost ; and I think 

 the plan above set forth is the best yet devised. M. L. Dunlap. 



Champaign, III. 



THUJOPSIS DOLABRATA. 



This beautiful evergreen — by far the most beautiful of its tribe — has 

 been put to a more severe test during the past winter than ever before. 

 We have, for four or five years past, had two specimens, planted near a 

 mass of Rhododendron Catawbicnse, but not near enough to receive any 

 protection from it. Last winter, the rhododendrons were severely injured, 

 being killed in some cases half-way to the ground ; while the two thujopses 

 escaped with very slight marks of the winter. One of them was browned 

 at the top, while the other was not injured in the least. A plantation of 

 Cuprcssus Latasoni, in a sheltered place near b}-, suffered far more ; the 

 tips of the foliage being killed. Indeed, the Thujopsis dolabrata came out 

 of the winter in a better condition than some young hemlocks in the neigh- 

 borhood, some of which were killed outright. F. Parkman. 



