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ers who sold everytliiug and returned nothing. Mr. Marlow ought 

 to buy some bone-meal and feed it to his stock, and if he will buy 

 more and sow it on their pastures they will get it in the way nature 

 intended, and return the worth of it, and more too, in the richness 

 of their milk or in flesh. 



Trees fob Fence Posts. 



Mr. S. S. Gregory, Berea, Ohio, inquires concerning the Lombardy 

 poplar as a fence tree, and adds : A neighbor of mine has a hedge of 

 these trees, set out three years ago last spring. They are about six 

 inches apart, and many of them over ten feet high. He thinks they 

 will form a fence quicker than the Osage orange. The question with 

 me is will they, when growing so thick, be sufficiently long-lived to 

 make them worth while to use them for hedges. Very few trees can 

 be propagated from cuttings better than this kind of poplar ; and as 

 they have a rapid growth, I have thought that, were they to be set 

 twenty, tliirty, forty or more feet apart, and one-quarter inch iron 

 rod stretched from one tree to another, the rod and trees might serve 

 as a cheap and good support for a fence. 



Mr. D. B. Bruen. — I have seen fences made of rails mortised in 

 these trees, but the plan is not a good one. If the trees live a year 

 they live longer than they ought to live, because they are great 

 exhausters of the soil. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — I fail to appreciate the sense of growing these 

 trees, which are at best, cheap and coarse, when maples can be pro- 

 duced as easily and cheaply. Let him gather maple seeds, sow them, 

 and when the little trees are a foot or so high, transplant them to 

 the hedge-row. 



Prof J. A. Xash. — And for hedging purposes willow is to be pre- 

 ferred. 



ON THE PKODUCTION OF TEA AS APPLICABLE TO 

 CALIFORNIA. 



Mr. II. A. Shipp, read the following paper : 



[In the composition of tliis article, I have endeavored to delineate 

 in as brief and succinct a manner as possible, the experiences gained 

 during many years residence in tea-growing districts of China, India 

 and Burmah, as manager and proprietor of large tea estates, and 

 have much pleasure in sending it forth for the benefit of the public] 



