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farmer will be the general rule, and not the exception. And a farmer's 

 wife will feel as much mortilied to have a gentleman pass her house in 

 suiniiKn- and not have a bed of flowers for him to look at, as she would to 

 go to clnirch with a visibh; hole in tlie heel of her stocking. Next afti^r 

 the flowers will come tlk> strawberry bed, tlien the small gaidt'n, and by 

 and by we may ho])e tlironi;liout tiie whole country to see a paradise of 

 fruits and llowers, shelters and shades — all brought about by the discus- 

 sions of the Farmers' Club." ^ 



Sweet Brier Seeds. 



Mrs. J. A. S. Gaskill, Reo, Wisconsin, saj-s: "It is not entirely neces- 

 sary, that the seeds of sweet brier sh(juld be kept moist until planted. I 

 have some fine bushes grown from seeds, which were kept in a bureau 

 drawer eighteen months, before they were planted. In the spring of 1862 

 I put them dry, around an old stump. I Avatched anxiously for them to 

 appear above ground, until late in the season, but in vain, and finally' con- 

 cluded that I was doomed to disappoijitment; but early the next spring I 

 was agreeably ■surprised to find them up and growing finely. 



Adjourned. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



April 4, 1805. 

 Mr. Nathan C. Ely in the chair. 



Seeds from Peru; 



The ITon. E. G. Squier sent to the Club for distribution a package of 

 seeds, which he brought from Peru, comprising four varieties of corn, some 

 Lima beans and some qiiinau, which is the great bread grain of the Indians, 

 growing seeds not much larger than millet. The leaves are also used as 

 greens, as wo do spinach; also seeds of a Lupin, which bears a beautiful 

 flower. 



Mr. F. W. Collins presented a sample of his Cheddar cheese, made to 

 imitate English Cheddar, and which has proved a perfect success, and 

 much more profitable than the old style cheese, as he gets 40 cents per 

 pound wh(jlesale, and the cost of making is but little more. A full account 

 of the process of m'anufacture is published in the Transactions of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society. 



Evergreens — How to Grow from Seeds. 



]Mr. L. Ilerrick, Blue Grass Grove, Minn., wants to know how to grow 

 evergreens from seed, as he has tried several times and failed. "Will red 

 cedar berries gi*bw the first year if taken from the tree and planted like 

 other seeds in the spring ?" 



Mr. Solon Robirfson read an article from The Gardener's Morilhhj for 

 April, in answer to this. It says that one of the go(jd fruits of this war 

 and gold speculation is that people have learned that they can grow their 

 own seedling evergreens better than to import them. Many individuals, as 

 well as nurserymen, grow their own supply, and the consequence will be 

 cheap adornment of many a prairie home. 



