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inent. The growing of forest-tree seedlings has become an important item 

 in our horticultural operations ; and yet it is in its infancy. The largest 

 plantation of evergreen seedlings in the United States is at Waukegan, in 

 this State. 



As a general thing, our orchards and small-fruit plantations are making 

 a healthy growth. Perhaps we ought to except the pear, which has suf- 

 fered considerably from the blight. this season ] so much so, that orchard- 

 ists have come to near a dead halt in regard to further planting. Immense 

 quantities of apple-seedlings have been grown this season fot root-grafting. 

 In or;e field, one hundred and eight bushels were sown. 



Hedging with the osage is being pushed with great vigor, and with the 

 most satisfactory results. The plants are set in a single row, and about a 

 foot apart. If well cultivated, they will make a fence in three years. One 

 man sowed three hundred bushels of seed, and many others one to two 

 hundred each. One and a half to two bushels are sown to the acre. It 

 is sown on new land free of weeds; and, at one season's growth, the plants 

 are ready for the hedge. The retail price is two dollars and a half per 

 thousand ; at wholesale, tw'o dollars. 



Labor has been rather abundant, and at reasonable rates ; which has 

 enabled cultivators to push these enterprises forward. 



Hop-culture is beginning to attract attention, and may become a new 

 feature in our rural economy. Stakes eight feet long, and tv.'ine, take the 

 place of poles ; thus adapting it to prairie-culture. On the whole, we think 

 the West bids fair to present its share of good things to the markets of the 

 world. M. L. Dunlap. 



Champaign, III., Aug 22, 1868. 



THE ONONDAGA GRAPP:. 



Messrs. Smith, Clark, & Powell, of the S3Tacuse Nurseries, Syracuse, 

 N.Y., to whom we are indebted for fine specim.ens of this new grape, speak 

 of the Onondaga as follows : — 



" The Onondaga is a seedling originated in Fayetteville in this (Onondaga) 

 county ; a cross between the Diana and the Delaware. It appears to be 



