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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Among other crops that we can rely on for some profit are late 

 cabbages, which bring from fl2 upwards per ton; melons, 

 especially of high-flavored varieties like Emerald Gem ; and 

 Hubbard squashes. 



Newer Devices and Methods. — Few of the newer implements 

 have been such a help to us as the Meeker smoothing harrow, 

 although it has imperfections and the great drawback of high 

 price. We now hope to find in the Clark's cutaway smoothing har- 

 row an implement costing less than half as much as the Meeker, 

 and doing fully as good — in some respects perhaps better — work. 

 The Breed weeder and Bemis transplanter have already been men- 



Bench, double width, arranged for sub-irrigation, 

 bench has been in use with me for two seasons. 



Tiles laid in cement. This 



tioned, and they are found to be great labor-savers. Among newer 

 methods there are two which have left a deep impression on our 

 garden practices : The one is the so-called " new onion culture," 

 which has enabled us to make the Prizetaker and New Gibraltar 

 onions very profitable within the limits of people's appreciation 

 of mild flavor, and of their willingness to buy onions of very large 

 size. The other is the new system of applying water to green- 

 house crops, namely, by sub-irrigation. This seems by far the 

 safest plan for lettuce beds, and it has enabled me to grow finer, 

 larger, and healthier plants, especially of the hard-heading newer 

 forcing sorts like White Perfection, New Hothouse, etc., than the 

 old way of surface watering ever gave us. The accompanying 



