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ag-ainst all kinds of farm stock. He keeps it trimmed to about four feet 

 high, except where it is used as a screen along an orchard, it grows twelve 

 feet liigh. Trees that are grown singly in the field, often attain a hight of 

 25 feet, and produce a peck of seed, which, if carefully treated, will afford 

 from 10,000 to 12,000 plants. To get the seed ready for planting in the 

 spring, it is mixed with sand where it will freeze and thaw during the win- 

 ter, or kept moist in barrels in the cellar, where the pulp rots, and can be easily 

 washed from the seed. Great care is necessary in planting to keep the 

 birds and chickens from the seed-bed, and frost from the young plants 

 which are very tender. In his section this thorn is not subject to blight 

 to any great extent, and is easily cured by sprinkling with powdered lime. 

 Blight sometimes destroys pink hawthorn hedges, and that is perhaps one 

 of the causes of prejudice against them. A good many farmers in my sec- 

 tion are planting new hedges. The plant is set at one year old, cutting 

 the tops off near the g-round, fifty plants to a rod in a single row, the 

 gi'ound being prepared as it would be for a corn crop. The next season 

 the plants are cut one inch above the first cut, and afterward they must be 

 kept properly trimmed every year to make a good hedge. 



Mr. W. S. Carpenter said that one of the best hedges he had ever seen was 

 made of honey locust, which Mr. Tt^wnsend objects to because it is so 

 difficult to keep trimmed in proper shape. 



Mr. Aycrigg, of Passaic, N. J., stated that about seven years since he 

 set out a hedge of Norway spruce, in a single row, two feet apart, and 

 kept them down, and by degrees allowed them to gain their present height 

 of about four and a half feet. They have been severely clipped without 

 injury. The appearance is beautiful, but it will require several years 

 more before the stems and interlacing branches will be strong enough to 

 turn cattle, and until then, they must be protected by a fence, on the road 

 side. He objected to hedges of thorn or honey locust on public roads, as 

 dangerous to travelers in dark nights. 



List of Fruits for the Vicinity of New York. 



Dr. Trimble called up this question, and moved that the Club adopt the 

 following list, which it recommended several years since : 



Sumnier Apjjles. — Early Bough, Early Harvest, American Summer Pear- 

 main, Summer Rose. 



Autumn. — Autumn Bough, Gravenstein, Hawley, Fall Pippin, Porter; 

 Jersej' Sweeting. 



Winter. — Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Jonathan, Monmouth Pip- 

 pin, Spitzenberg (Esopus), Tallman Sweeting, King of Tompkins County, 

 Boston Russet. 



Summer Fears. — Doyenne d' Ete, Dearborn's Seedling-, Beurre Giffard, 

 Rostiezer, Tyson. 



Autumn. — Bartlett, Seckel, Buerr6 d'Anjou, Buerre Superfin, Doyenne 

 Boussock, Duchesse d'Angoul6me (on Quince), Flemish Beauty, Fondante 

 d'Automne, Sheldon, Urbaniste. 



Winter. — Beurre Gris d'Hiver Nouveau, Beurre Diel, Lawrence, Vicar of 

 Winkfield. 



