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These three varieties must be protected in our locality to bear a satisfactory 

 crop. The Minnewaska has winter-killed and failed in fruiting heavily thereby, 

 for three years past. These berries will well repay the care necessary for winter 

 protection. The Minnewaska produces berries round in shape and, nearly 

 an inch in diameter. I am not able to say yet which is the best of the three. 

 So far there seems little difference in results. I like the Lawton, but then, as I 

 said before, you know what you are eating. — Gardening. 



DOORYARD PRUNING. 



A distinguished landscape-gardener once said to me, as we stood in the 

 Spring Grove cemetery : " A man of leisure with no eye for the details of 

 landscape beauty, can in a single spring day, with pruning-saw and ax, do 

 more to mar the beauty of a home than a landscape-gardener can do to 

 create it in half a life time. If idle men who desire to enjoy the April 

 sunshine would get a pile of sand and shovel it back and forth as the children 

 do, they would do infinitely more for rural adornment and taste, than they do 

 in pruning their shrubbery. Men are all born butchers, and when they get too 

 old, or too lazy, or too rich to butcher men or animals, they butcher the innocent 

 trees and shrubs around their homes. They ruthlessly throttle every effort of 

 naiure, and make their dooryards a grass-plat stuck full of broom-handles and 

 hop-poles." Symmetry is not the essence of beauty. If it was, then a new 

 umbrella would be one of the most beautiful things in the world. Two of a 

 kind does not constitute beauty. If we take out of the problem of dooryard 

 decoration the two items of symmetry and duplication, we knock out the main 

 props that sustain your neighbor in his burning ambition to excel in door-yard 

 pruning. — J. B. Pierce, Summit County Hort. Society. 



Tomatoes. — The most salable package for tomatoes is the four basket 

 case used so extensively in your State for the first-class stock, while the seconds 

 may be packed in third bushel boxes, if you will persist in shipping that kind of 

 stock, but my experience teaches me that you had much better throw away every- 

 thing but the best, because the poor stock always demoralizes the markets and 

 causes a depreciation of prices on good goods much more than the amount 

 realized for trash. 



A Substitute fOP Glass. — We are not particularly in favor of using cheap 

 substitutes for glass in general greenhouse and hotbed management. Muslin 

 and the like will answer for protection during rights and cold snaps. Wire 

 netting coated with varnish (composed of linseed oil) is now being tried as a sub- 

 stitute for greenhouse sashes. The best boiled-oil, carefully applied, forms a 

 film over the meshes. When perfectly dry, a second application is made. 



