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apples, the rest winter apples, of the varieties most iu demand, 

 not omitting a proportion of those most productive in your own 

 vicinity. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — These directions are good. We doubt the pro- 

 priety of planting peach trees among apple trees, because the peach 

 requires high culture as long as it lives, particularly in the fore 

 part of the growing season, but not so as to get a full growth. 

 When an apple tree comes into full bearing, high culture is uot 

 beneficial, certainly not where the seasons are long. We would 

 prefer to plant each in separate orchards — apple trees thirty feet 

 apart and peach trees about a rod. It is difficult to cultivate the 

 two kinds, with ditferent kinds of branches and requirements. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble, of New Jersey, read a long, able, but 

 somewhat severe paper, on the course pursued by what is known 

 as the Camden and Amboy monopoly. He endeavored to show 

 that the illiberal course pursued by the railroad company which 

 has a monopoly of the carr;y'ing of passengers between New York 

 and Philadelphia, across the State of New Jersey, was one of the 

 principal causes which prevented the rapid settlement of the eastern 

 part of that State. He chai'ged that company with using improper 

 means for retaining their influence in the New Jersey Legislature, 

 and preventing the chartering of other railways; but as the Chib 

 knew nothing of the course of that company except by the repre- 

 sentations then made, and as it is not in the province of this 

 Society to correct political abuses, however desirable it might be 

 to bring the waste lands of that State under cultivation, the Club 

 declined to take any action on the subject. 



OSAGE ORANGE HEDGE. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — The following rules are for farmers who 

 desire to grow their own plants and hedge. The seed should be 

 of the previous season's growth. Soak your seed in hot water, 

 changing the water daily at about one hundred degrees, and keep 

 the seed in a warm room. After six or seven days, the seed can be 

 placed in a shallow vessel, say six inches deep, covered with a wet 

 cloth and stirred three times a day to prevent heating. As soon 

 as the germs begin to appear, plant in seed beds, covered an inch 

 deep, rolling the surface smooth. 



The best time is at the beginning of corn planting. The soil 

 must be moist, or the seeds that are not started will become dry 

 and fail to germinate until the following spring. 



