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cecds well in growinf^ the following- early apples: Early Strawberry, Sops 

 of Wine, Early Red-Streak, Summer Rose, Early Harvest. The Strawberry 

 apples rii)en the middle of July. 



OsAGE Orange — Its Hardiness. 



Mr. S. W. Noble, Leroy, 111., comments upon the statement of Mr. Rood 

 about the hardiness^ of Osage oran^^e. Mr. Noble says: 



"Mr. Rood's statement is correi-t as far as it refers to the plant. But 

 there is one fact which he did not mention, and that is, that when our 

 hedj^es 'froze out,' in '54 and '55, the root did not freeze, but sprouted up 

 in th(.' Spring rnu(;h thicker and stronger than th(>y had ever grown before, 

 making decided improvement in tiie hedge. The dry stocks, which are 

 very (irm and hard, answering every purpose for a fence until the sprouts 

 come again. The best hedges on our farm were froZ(ui to the ground in 

 1855, but instead of killing them, as you infer from Mr. Ivood's letter, it 

 was a decided advantage to them. All Osage orange hedges were improved 

 by the freeze. Hedges are improved in the same way by fire. There are 

 Osage orange hedges in this county, on the prairie, where the fires have 

 run through them every winter for the last eight or ten years, and, as a 

 consequence, the plants and sprouts are so numerous and bushy that they 

 will turn quails and rabbits. This idea of Osage orange plant being fen- 

 der, has been a great drawback on the agricultural interests of this prairie 

 country. 



"My only object in writing is to call the attention of your Club to the 

 above facts. I have no plants to sell, or other reasons for advocating the 

 claims of the Osage plant." 



Hedges. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — Last evening I was in company with the pr( 

 rietor of Reed's nursery, at Elizabeth, who suggested that as the subjec 

 ' hedges is often discussed at the Club, and as he had a great variety c 



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Hedges. 



pro- 

 prietor ol lieeci's nursery, at iiiiizaueni, wno suggesreu inai as me suoject 

 of hedges is often discussed at the Club, and as he had a great variety of 

 lied'^es on his grounds, the Club give notice to those interested that it will 

 meet on his grounds and discuss the subject with the various specimens 

 before tluMu. 



Dr. Trimble.— I hope we shall adojjt the suggestion of Mr. Buchanan and 

 meet there some time next Summer. 



Apples. 



Pr Trimble exhibited apples which, he said, were declared by English- 

 men to be "Bk'nheim Orange," which Downing describes as sweet, but 

 these arc sub-acid, of delicious quality. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter.— These apples are the Westchester Seek-no- 

 further. The original tree stands in the grounds of Stephen P. Carpenter, 

 at New Rochelle. It is very old and large, and the fruit most excellent. 

 There is no apple more worthy of propagation. 



Cure for Poison Ivy. 



A farmer at South Creek, Penn., who has suflered verj' severely for many 

 years from poison ivy, has discovered a perfect cure in a plant called Wild 



