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ground, and is not less than seventy-five feet high, while 

 the spread of its branches is nearly equal to its height. It 

 rarely fails to produce a crop of nuts, and they sell readily 

 in the markets for a high price. 



The nuts are fully equal in both size and quality to the 

 Paragon, of which so much is now said. One nurseryman 

 at Wyoming, Delaware, showed me samples of chestnuts, 



the following year. The United States Pomologist refers 

 to this Chestnut in his reports for the years 1889 and 1890. 

 Chestnut-culture is each year receiving more attention in 

 this state. The Ridgely has given the most satisfactory 

 results of any variety in this section, and it deserves to be 

 more extensively disseminated. 



Experiment Station, Newark, Del. 



M. H. Beckwilh. 



Fig. 77. — Fence enclosing the grounds of. the Germantown Cricket Club. — See 



a few days ago, which were produced from Ridgely seed- 

 lings of his own growing, that were fully equal to the Para- 

 gon nuts. The growing of the seedling trees is not very 

 satisfactory, as they are usually slower to come into bear- 

 ing than the grafted trees, and the nuts are very apt to be 

 inferior to the seed planted. Seedlings may be grafted as 

 readily as the Apple, and the grafts willjoften produce nuts 



Hybrid Tea Rose, Dean Hole. — Three years ago a hybrid 

 Tea Rose, of unknown parentage, was brought into this 

 country from France, and it has proved a very desirable 

 Rose for forcing. This was Madame Caroline Testout. 

 The flower is of an especially pleasing color, which light 

 up beautifully, and is probably the clearest shade of pink 

 known in the whole Rose family, and, altogether, it has an 



