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weather they should be covered deep enough to prevent freezing. In 

 the spring uncover, leaving only the upper bud exposed. Xo wax is 

 used in grafting grapes, the scions being tied in with string or bass 

 bark. The grafting may also be deferred until the leaves on the 

 vines are about half grown in spring. Some of our vineyardists 

 prefer this season to any other, but there is little use in trying to 

 graft vines in early spring when the sap first commences to flow. 



Growing Evergreens. 



Mr. II. C. Chapman, Goshen, N. Y., stated that he lias gathered 

 a quantity of evergreen seed of various kinds which he wishes to for- 

 ward to friends in the prairie States; but they will be asking, what 

 shall we do with it .'? And Mr. G. requested the Club to reply in 

 advance. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller — Evergreens require far more care in growing 

 from seed than deciduous trees. In the first place, it will not answer 

 to sow the seeds in an exposed situation, where no shade or other pro- 

 tection can be given the young seedlings. The seeds should be sown 

 in a half-shady place. Sometimes the shade of a large tree will answer, 

 but the best way is to make frames the same as used for hotbeds, but 

 use no manure or other stimulating materials to produce heat or rank 

 growth. These frames should be covered either with coarse cloths or 

 screens made of common lath or any other material by which shade 

 can be secured for the young plants. If exposed to the direct rays 

 of the sun, few will grow. To give full directions how to grow ever- 

 greens from seed would be too long a storv to tell here ; and any 

 man who cares enough about this subject to attempt the culture of 

 such plants, can well afford to purchase and read the books which 

 give the required information. 



Large Yield of Corn. 

 Xathaniel Tuttle, Milan, Ohio — I send you to-day an ear of corn 

 as a specimen of my two acres. Perhaps you have noticed some of 

 the papers give me credit for having harvested 254 bushels of shelled 

 corn the past season from that surface. The ear I send is shortened 

 nearly one-third by the severe drouth, which, at one time, threatened 

 to entirely destroy the crop. I have for more than fifteen years 

 selected the best ears when I husked, and endeavored to get rid of 

 the roughness of the " hackberry," with which I began, and have 

 been successful. I have never been off my farm for seed-corn during 

 that time. I am seventy-three years old, and one of the pioneers who 

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