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mulch. Trees should always be watered by pouring water into 

 the hole before setting, or into a side hole that will reach the 

 roots below the surface. Watering the surface sometimes serves 

 to harden it and injure the tree, unless the ground is mulched. 



FRUITS IN SEASON. 



Wm. S. Carpenter presented the following list of fruits now in 

 Beason, wdiich he had on exhibition to-day: 



Apples — Sweet Bough, Drap d'Or, Summer Pippin, Homony, 

 Queen Anne, Hollow Crown', Red Astracan, Giflfard, Early Joe, 

 Rivers, Strawberry, Hawle}^, Seedling, Jersey Sweeting, Red Ju- 

 neating, Healey's Nonsuch. 



Pears — Bartlett, Tyson, Bloodgood, Dearborn Seedling, Sum- 

 mer Virgalieu, Ott, Beurre Giifard. 



Also, the Feejee tomato one of the best varieties ever intro- 

 duced into this country, growing very large, smooth, and remark- 

 ably solid. 



SELECT LIST OF EARLY PEARS AND APPLES. 



The following is Mr Carpenter's list, in their order as he would 

 recommend : 



Apples — Yellow Harvest, Sweet Bough, Early Joe, Summer 

 Pippin, Red Astracan, Jerse}^ Sweeting. 



Pears — Doyenne d'Ete, Beurre GifFard, Osbond's Summer, Ty- 

 son, Ott, Bartlett. 



Mr. Carpenter also exhibited fruit of a plant called the mar- 

 tinee, which is very excellent for pickles. It grows in crooked 

 pods, six inches long, and one inch in diameter at the butt, and 

 is the same thing that has been growing common over New Eng- 

 land many years, or something very like.it. 



A NEW BLACKBERRY. 



The Secret.ary introduced a specimen of the " cut leaf," or 

 "parsley leaf" blackberry, grown on the place of Mr. Munson, 

 at Astoria, which some persons think superior to the Lawton 

 variety. This specimen was certainly very fine, possessing a 

 peculiar flavor, which was much approved by all of the fifty 

 ladies and gentlemen present. 



Dr. Trimble inquired how to pick blackberries, so as to always 

 get 'them fully ripened. 



Solon Robinson replied, " tickle them off." The Lawton black- 

 berry often appears fully ripe to the eye, when quite unfit to eat. 



