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carried to where wanted. A sample of the article or articles (size and kind) in 

 each drawer is fastened on the outside of it by a double pointed carpet tack, and 

 when anything is wanted, from a quarter inch tack to a half inch bolt, it is a 

 pleasure and satisfaction to be able to put your hand on it in a moment. 



SIX PEARS FOR MARKET. 



In reply to the query, " Name the six most profitable pears for market, 

 stating how they should be grown, as standard or dwarf?" Mr. Zimmerman, of 

 Buffalo, sent this answer to the Western New York Horticultural Society : 



" Bartlett, Howell, Beurre Bosc, B. Clairgeau, Duchess d'Angouleme, 

 Beurre d'Anjou — Bartlett and Bosc as standards, and Howell, Duchess, Clairgeau 

 and d'Anjou as dwarf. With these I have as good success as with the standards, 

 since they have all their roots protected with a good grass sod. It is at the root 

 where the destructive agencies of the ever-changing climate play havoc with the 

 dwarf pears. The top of the dwarf pear is as hardy as the standard, save what 

 harm a too heavy bearing for a number of years may bring ; but that can be 

 avoided by a judicious thinning and proper cutting back of the standard 

 branches. 



A good red-top sod gives a better protection than any top dressing of 

 manure ; the sod is always on hand, whereas the manure is sometimes not 

 applied when needed. My earliest planting of dwarfs was in 1851, and they are 

 yet as sound and thrifty as ever, bearing from two to eight bushels each yearly : 

 in grass for the last twenty-five years, with no outlay for labor except a yearly top 

 dressing of manure, which can be put on at any time between November and 

 May. The soiling of cattle can well be carried on with this course. The red- 

 top or June grass is fit to cut at least by the first of June, and if the manure 

 and liquid be returned the product of the trees pays better than cultivation. 



Fertilizer from Bones. —Bones may be made useful for a fertilizer, says 

 a writer in the New York Times, in the following manner : Put them into a pit 

 two or three feet deep with alternate layers of lime, fresh from the kiln, and un- 

 leached wood ashes. Wet the heap with water to slack the lime, and then cover 

 with sufficient depth of good soil to keep in the heat and moisture. In two or 

 three months the bones will be quite soft and may be broken down with a shovel, 

 and mixed with the other materials, and is a valuable manure. It is necessary to 

 keep the heat moist, as the water evaporates or soaks into the ground. It is a 

 very dangerous matter to meddle with oil of vitrol or sulphuric acid, as one drop 

 splashed into the eye will destroy it, or if on the skin will make a deep burn that 

 it is difficult to heal. A farmer should never undertake to make a fertilizer with 

 bones by the use of these dangerous acids. 



