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have no top nor bottom, and are very narrow, and open at one 

 end, so that a plant and the contents of the box can be transplanted 

 into the open ground with much greater facility than it can be dono 

 out of the flower pot. As the boxes are long, roots can grow to a 

 much greater length than in pots. Kibs of wood are nailed across 

 the iuside of the boxes, to turn the roots inwards across the box. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter said he was much pleased with it, for in 

 transplanting there could be no loss. 



A VISIT TO A EASPBERRY PLANTATION. 



The committee made up at the last Club meeting, visited the 

 farm of Mr. Samuel Sinclair, on which they found the raspberry 

 field managed by Dr. W. B. Peck. The variety growing is the 

 Doolittle black cap. They were planted in drills, the rows about 

 seven feet apart, and were literally loaded with fruit. Perhaps 

 this is the finest display of this variety grown in the vicinity of 

 New York, for the shipments bring the highest price. The loca- 

 tion of the place is one of the most beautiful of the many beauti- 

 ful ones on the banks of the famous Hudson. Good crops were 

 on the ground, and it was an interesting sight to see two beautiful 

 ponds containing many speckled trout. Mr. Sinclair is building a 

 concrete barn, which, when completed, will be the best in the 

 country; and he is otherwise improving the place by draining and 

 getting out muck. 



SPUE-PRUNING THE GRAPL. 



Mr. C. Taber, Brooklyn, L. I., writes that he tramed a portion of 

 his young Concords upon the alternate renewal plan, and the others 

 to the spur, or entire renewal system, with results decidedly in 

 favor of the former. The arms were the same in each, and after 

 training uprights, eight inches apart, on a portion of this trellis, 

 every other upright was cut out in the fall to one bud, and now 

 the remaining canes, or the shoots from them, are well loaded with 

 fruit, while there are few clusters on that part of the trellis where 

 every upright was cut down to two eyes with the exjjectation that 

 each of the new shoots would have several clusters. They seem too 

 ambitious of growth to attend to the bearing part. If they do not 

 yield better after one more trial, he proposes to bring them all to 

 the alternate renewal plan — that is, cutting away each alternate 

 upright to a single bud after it has yielded a crop of fruit — the 

 ^itermediate canes growing in the mean time for fruiting the next 



