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and they are raised in that vicinity at half the cost of those grown 

 here, simply because their culture is better understood. 



The superior kinds of Raspberries (Fastolfs and others,) are daily 

 becoming favorites, and many nurserymen in back counties, are 

 selling the plants at $25 per hundred, while those of other fine kinds 

 are selling at $4. Mr. Paterson of Newark, sold of fruit and plants, 

 last year at the rate of $1400 per acre. Who would raise hay or corn 

 withm a few miles of New-York with such an example before them % 



Yours truly, 

 JAS. J. ivTAPES. 



Judge Livingston said he had been very successful in planting the 

 •cuttings of the grape, by deferring the cutting of the scions till about 

 the first of May, or until the buds have swollen considerably, and in- 

 deed, until the extreme bud on tlie vine is opening into leaf. The 

 cuttings should have four buds on tliem. They should be planted in 

 rich ground, well wrought with the spade at least a foot deep, the 

 scions about 9 or 7 inches deep, or the top bud above ground, and the 

 next just below the surface, in rows east and west, and sheltered from 

 the midday sun by a board 10 or 12 inches wide. They will require 

 watering at least once a week in July and August if the season be very 

 dry. The loss will not exceed twenty per cent. I prune in the fall 

 as soon as the leaves have fallen. 



Mr. Elliott wished to know if the European grapes would stand 

 the winter of this climate without protection. 



Judge Livingston said he has had them do well one hundred miles 

 North of this. In this city they are not protected. The best protec- 

 tion is to bury them 2 or 3 inches. 



Mr. Meigs said he set out 100 cutlinors, in a trench of two feet deep 

 of prepared soil, a leaning to the north at an angle of 45 degrees. 

 The sap circulates easier, not one failed. Dr. Underbill says he loses 

 70 per cent. Mr. Meigs adverted to Gen. Tallmadge's interesting 



