216 Transactions of the American Institute. 



Mr. Chambers spoke liiglily of it, after using one for several months 

 in his family. 



The Chair also commended it as the best coffee pot he ever saw. 



A ]S'ew Eoad-Sckapek. 



Mr. Henry J. England, of Delhi, Delaware Co., N. Y., exhibited 

 tliis, and it was universally commended by the Club, including Solon 

 Eobinson and Mr, Carpenter. It is so constructed that when the 

 operator touches a spring it dumps itself and turns back again with- 

 out the team having to be stopped. The improvement can be applied 

 to ordinary iron-scrapers. Those who may want such an implement 

 must know that none are for sale at present, as it is just invented. 



Mice Girdled Trees. 



Mr, J, D. Adams, Fleming, Cayuga Co., N. Y. — In reading your 

 proceedings from time to time, I notice some things that I think have 

 a tendency to mislead. For instance the statement in regard to trees 

 that have been girdled. First : A mound of earth, if it succeeds at 

 all, will be by causing the tree to make new roots from the bark at 

 the top of the denuded surface, the original root will die in a short 

 time, your tree will be feeble and worthless, it having been converted 

 from a seedling to a layer. Second : To graft with strips of bark 

 will be a total failure ; but if you will cut away a portion of the wood 

 so as to permit you to insert a stick or limb of considerable size in 

 proportion to the tree girdled, in the same manner that you mention, 

 you will succeed if the work is done early and well. We have a 

 number of trees thus served, as also those of our neighbors, which we 

 have done for them, and they have stood the test of years, and are 

 now bearing sound pears, I send you this, well knowing how any 

 one feels after planting and watching a tree for years, to have their 

 hopes blasted under the cover of a snow drift. 



Osage Okange. 



Mr. H. Duman, Luton, Canada. — When is the seed planted ; where 

 can it be procured, and which is the cheapest, the plants at seven 

 dollars a thousand, or the seed ? 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — It is too late now to plant either. The seed 

 can be had in our large seed stores, particularly west. A good seed- 

 bed is made where the hedge is to stand, and the seed is sown as soon 

 as the ground is warm in the spring, after being warmed or sprouted 



