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homestead of ours is but sixteen miles from 

 the heart of the city, and these apples are 

 sold for cooking purposes, as they . have a 

 reputation above all others for this purpose. 



The Holland Pippin is also a favorite 

 market sort ; rather late but its large size, 

 fine form, pretty color, and good quality for 

 cooking, will sell it. Its season is close 

 after the Codlin. Two, trees of Autumn 

 Swaar have borne well, and command a 

 ready sale. 



Among summer apples, we have not 

 found, during the past half a dozen years, 

 the Early Harvest, Ked Astrachan, Sum- 

 mer Rose, Early Strawberry, or Benoin. 

 Profitable sorts. Summer Queen always 

 pays, and so does Sops-of-Wine, or as it is 

 better known under the name of Williams' 

 Favorite. Golden Sweet bears sparingly ; 

 Sweet Bough is of no value, and Fall Pip- 

 pin can be classed with it. Our best Sep- 

 tember sweet apple is Late Golden Sweet, as 

 it is productive, hardy, and fruit of good 

 quality. The next in season to it is Ram- 

 dells Sweet and Winter Bough for late win- 

 ter. Tollman Sweet has never done well — 

 always bears moderately. Snow Apple is 

 the best late fall and early winter. Winter 

 Russet holds a high place, but Stannard is 

 a head and shoulders above a 1 for profit, 

 holding the same place in our esteem among 

 the winter apples, that the Codlin does 

 among those of summer. 



A week at the old homestead and we leave 

 it in charge of a junior member of the fam- 

 ily to attend the great fair of the State Hor- 

 ticultural Society, and shall then return to 

 the new home that we have carved out of 

 the grand prairie that sweeps down into the 

 center of the State. 



B@„It is stated that the Rev. Enoch Sanford, 

 of Ranham, Mass., sixty years of age, has en- 

 listed in the army. 



B@,.Six hundred government employees at 

 Watervliet Arseaal have taken the oath of alleg- 

 ance. 



Late Grafting. 



Grafting, it is generally supposed must be done 

 early in spring, or it will not succeed ; the rule 

 is to graft before vegetation has begun. We 

 have various times practiced grafting up to the 

 begining of the second week in June, and with 

 pretty uniform success. The chief difficultjr to 

 contend with is to keep the grafts from drying 

 upon the one hand, or to prevent them from grow- 

 ing. Where an ice house is at hand, the. diffi- 

 culty is somewhat under control. Early in the 

 season we received valuable grafts from Mr. Wil- 

 der, Dr. Brinckle and others. Our purpose was 

 to set them at once ; but absence and other 

 causes made it quite impossible, and they re- 

 mained in the cellar, covered with sand, till the 

 28th of May, when they were put in, some of 

 them being quite dry and somewhat shrivelled. 

 They were cut into lengths of three or four 

 inches, and most of them inserted by the com- 

 mon mode of split grafting. With some, how- 

 ever, the usual T cut for budding was made in 

 the bark, the graft cut sloping at the end inser- 

 ted under the bark, and secured by tieiug. All 

 were thinly coated with grafting wax. Upwards 

 of fifty grafts, (apples and pears) were put in, 

 and, with one single exception, are growing as 

 finely as could be wished. The exception is a 

 graft of two year old wood, and is breaking 

 rather feebly, which was to be expected. We 

 call attention to this late gratfing, not as a re- 

 markable novelty, but that our readars may 

 know that late grafting may be successfully per- 

 formed. Valuable grafts may some times be 

 thrown away, because it is supposed to be too 

 late to put them in. In regard to the ripening 

 of the wood, we have never had a late graft 

 winter-killed. There is no doubt a limit beyond 

 which we cannot go ; but that limit we have not 

 yet ascertained. The grafts put in by the T cut 

 are growing quite as well as those put in the 

 split. The T cut is more rapidly performed, but 

 neither process requires much time. — Horticul- 

 turist. 



— For years we have been in the habit of iate 

 grafting, and always with good success. The 

 very early grafting recommended by the books, 

 we always avoid. Never set grafts until the 

 buds begin to swell rapidly, and are near break- 

 ing from that time until they are nearly full leaf 

 Our remarkable success with plum and cherry 

 grafting, we attribute, in part, to this late graft- 

 ing. It is seldom that we bud anything except 

 peaches, prefering the grafting, as it is found 

 much more convenient with this extended season, 

 to do the work, and we have a better growth; 



With the old short season of grafting, of 

 course we could not do so much grafting, and 

 would have to resort to budding. 



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— Why is blanc mange never fit to eat? Be- 

 cause it is generally moulded. 



