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Solon Robinson — In preparing locust seed for planting, it 

 should be scalded with boiling ley. In regard to growing cran- 

 berries, there is no doubt they can be grown upon any soil that 

 has water a few inches below the surface. Upon tolerably dry 

 upland cranberries have been grown fo advantage, and they 

 will grow in very bare sand if either naturally or artificially 

 w'atered. 



Mr. Fuller thought they could be grown almost anywhere by 

 properly mulching the surface. He saw them growing last sea- 

 son on Brooklyn Heights by the moisture retained by the mulch 

 on the common garden soil. 



Mr. Pardee thought the cranberry plant did not require as 

 much water as the strawberry. 



GRAPE CULTURE. 



Wm. Lawton — The opinion has prevailed that grapes of foreign 

 growth could be grown wherever the peach flourishes, but that 

 theory has proved a fallacy. Of the large importations of Prince, 

 over thirty years ago, we have but very few varieties. The Isa- 

 bella and Catawba grapes, both natives, are the only ones that 

 have been extensively and successfully grown in this latitude. 

 The Alexander or Schuylkill grape is a hardy variety, 

 and is a pretty fair table fruit. In regard to cultivating 

 a vine upon a small plot of ground, I will relate the success 

 of a poor shoemaker in this city, who planted a vine in a 

 very small yard, that grew so large it produced many bushels a 

 year. Almost every owner of a yard in the city could grow more 

 grapes than the family could use. One person in this city sold 

 over $100 worth of grapes from a single vine. Every farmer in 

 the country should possess two or three grape vines, for family 

 use. Care must be taken to keep the vines clear of insects. The 

 Isabella and Catawba grape are the most certain of any sort of 

 fruit grown. 



Jas. C. Provoost, a grape grower in Brooklyn, at Green point, 

 said that temperance men need not object to wine, for it would 

 be made of the pure juice of grapes. My land is a loam, with 

 water within three feet of the surface. My vines are on trellises 

 about eight feet apart and some eight feet high. From one vine. 



