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ready to ran are led along twine to the upper wire. Such a trellis may be 

 used for a blind in summer, or as an ornamental screen of any part of the 

 garden. Another good form of trellis is made portable in lengths of eight 

 or ten feet. It is formed by nailing strips of lath together, or it may be 

 made of wire or in any form to suit the taste. These frames are set up two 

 or tlircc feet apart at the bottom, leaning together at the top and fastened. 

 The vines are planted upon the outside of each frame. Beans may be thus 

 grown to be both ornamental and useful. A garden, or a part of it filled in 

 the ordinary way with beans on poles, is anything but ornamental. The 

 great secret, hower, of growing Lima beans, is to keep them pruned. 



The Chairman said he had been lately recommended to plant Lima beans 

 eight inches deep. 



Mr. Williams and Mr. Dodge both declared that if they were thus planted 

 they would never come to the surface; that it was important not only not 

 to plant them too deep, but to set the beans carefully by hand right side up. 



Dr. Trimble said it was not only important, but that the young plants 

 should come up and continue to grow straight up from the surface. Some- 

 times, if the seeds arc not set straight, they will not grow at all, or if grow- 

 ing crookedly, they appear to lose vigor. In a country where young cedars 

 can be obtained, trim them with the butt of the limbs a few inches long, and 

 they make the best support for beans of anything that he had ever seen 

 tried. 



Mr. Dodge said he greatly preferred the Agricultural bean to the Lima. 

 The latter, to be productive, need constant attention to keep all the runners 

 pruned closely. 



Union Men Wanted in West Jersey. 



Mr. P. N. Parkhurst, Hammonton, New Jersey, thinks " that instead of 

 declaring New Jersey unfit for the residence of white men becanse it is so 

 filled with copperheads as to give a majority of votes for tl^e rebel candid- 

 ate for president, we should recommend good union men to locate there 

 sufficient to overcome that majority. For one, I have strong hopes we can 

 do it, and I do not feel willing to leave this land of my adoption, neither 

 am I pleased to have others advised not to come here from so high a source 

 as The Tribune. The same reasoning applied to the city of New York 

 ■world induce all honest men to leave it. If New Jersey is not fit for a 

 ■white man, it is fit for colored men, and you may recommend them to leave 

 a city where they are hung on account of th<?ir color, and come to this 

 region of cheap lands and rich productions of all that makes life comfort- 

 able." 



Cheap Lands on Long Island — Information Wanted, 



Mr. S. D. Hough, Collinsville, Connecticut, writes as follows : "Can you, 

 or an}'' members of the American Institute Farmers' Club, give any infor- 

 mation as to the locality of cheap lands upon Long Island ? A few yeara 

 ago I noticed much relative thereto); nothing lately. The country' is flooded 

 ■with ciiculars and advertisements of cheap land in small tracts in New 

 Jersey; and mauj'^ mechanics who desire a small homestead, hold about the 

 same opinion of that State, politically, as was expressed in the reports 

 lately. Is it not for the interest of New Yorkers to desire the increase of 



