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all peaches for drying, for five bushels will make one bushel when 

 dried, while the rare-ripe requires ten for one. Here is a mam- 

 moth Cling preserved with sugar. Here are cherries preserved 

 whole without sugar — the blackheart and the guines. Here are 

 raspberries whole and sound with much of their true taste, with- 

 out sugar. Here are red and yellow tomatoes without any liquor 

 but their own, neither sugar, salt, nor anything else. The mem- 

 bers said that the red tomato had tho original fresh taste — and 

 most of the fruits their true color and much of their true flavor. 

 The light red colored cherry, La belle de Choisy (the beauty 

 of the town of Choisy) is delicious. You can hardly have ripe 

 fruit in your cities. You cannot eat them freely, without disor- 

 dering your stomachs. Go with me to the tree when the cherries 

 are fully ripe, and pick out the best, you may eat abundantly and 

 feel well. 



Mr. Smith. — We are very careful in selecting and pulling our 

 fruit. 



Chairman. — Success depends mpon having perfect fruit, un- 

 doubtedly. I am desired to ask the members who have examined 

 and tasted Mr. and Mrs. Smith's fruits, what is their opinion 

 of them? 



The members generally said that several w-ere excellent, and 

 some almost perfect, especially the red tomato. 



. Mr. Smith. — We have succeeded perfectly in keeping rhubarb 

 fresh. We have a large plantation of that plant. Our blackber- 

 ries and whortie berries are well preserved. 



Chairman. — The fresh preserves supply, in a good measure, 

 during the winter, the place of the summer and autumn fruits, 

 so essential, to health and pleasure. 



Mr. Smith.-;— We are not in a plum region; ifdoes not like our 

 light soils. The trees are troubled with the black knot, and the 

 pluilis by curculio. Plums will soon be, among us, a thing 

 that was. 



Chairman. — Plant your plum trees near water, and inclining 



