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ber of little bulbs, or seeds, attacbed, eacb of wbicb will produce a plant 

 and flowers. 



DEAD WOOD INJURIOUS TO PEAR TREES. 



Mr. T. W. Field read an article of Lewis Berkman, tbat rotten wood is 

 not good as a manure for pear trees. Pear trees need great care and skill 

 when young. 



PHLOX FOR BED PLANTS. 

 Mr. R. Gr. Pardee. — I have lately seen a good many very fine gardens, 

 where no expense is spared for handsome plants, and I think a bed made of a 

 variety of phloxes, which cost but a trifle, the finest I have ever seen. I 

 recommend ladies to save seeds, and sow beds in the spring. 



RASPBERRIES. 



Mr. Fuller. — A mean, contemptible, red raspberry will out-sell, in this 

 market, the very best* of a difi"erent color. It is a fact that the Brinkley 

 Orange, one of the finest flavored berries grown, won't sell in the New 

 York market. 



PEARS. 



Dr. C. W. Grant spoke highly of the valuable qualities of the Flemish 

 Beauty pear, and how readily it will now sell, yet it is only a few years 

 since it would not sell as well as the Bartlett. The public taste has to bo 

 educated, as they have about this pear, and then they will appreciate bet- 

 ter fruits of all kinds. 



STRAWBERRY SEED. 



Mr. Fuller stated that a friend of his has this year saved twenty pounds 

 of clean strawberry seeds, which he intends to distribute all over the 

 country gratuitously. Now, as each pound probably contains half a mil- 

 lion of seeds, there will be a chance for some new varieties of straw- 

 berries. 



PREPARING WHEAT GROUND. 



John Gr. Bergen, of Long Island. — Upon my soil I have satisfied myself 

 that deep plowing is not advantageous. I do not speak against subsoil 

 plowing upon some soils, but upon such as I cultivate. I have tested it to 

 be of no advantage. 



Mr. Carpenter. — I think shallow plowing might answer for rye, but not 

 for wheat. I have tried both deep and shallow plowing, and in all cases 

 have found a very beneficial eff"ect from deep plowing. On any soil that I 

 have ever tried, deep culture has proved highly advantageous. 



Mr. Bergen. — I am not an advocate of shallow plowing, but find that 

 upon a sandy soil it does not answer to turn up the soil deeply, particu- 

 larly for wheat, and I have found no advantage in subsoiling sixteen inches 

 deep. We manure very highly, and find that plowing ten inches is the 

 right depth, at which the land has been plowed for many years. If I was 

 going to put in a crop now in August, when the land is dry, I would like 



