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setting the plants. — W. F. Massey, A^. C. Experiment 

 Station. 



Casaripeor Kassareep. — Who knows anything about 

 this West Indian product ? A writer in the Saturdav 

 Ke'c'u-iv says : "In the great old times of the West Indies, 

 men boasted the age of their pepper-pot as warmly as 

 the age of their madeira ; in a rough way they calcu- 

 lated the increase of value at five dollars a year, and 

 trade was brisk at the price. The basis of this perennial 

 dish is casaripe It may be hoped that the Berlin ex- 

 hibition will be the means of introducing kassareep to 

 European commerce. It is seldom to be found in Lon- 

 don — indeed only so far as we can learn, at a shop in 

 Leicester Square." 



If the problem of nutrition is how to get the greatest 

 enjoyment consistent with sound health and length of 

 days out of the bill of fare that nature has provided, 

 and if the gratification of taste is as laudable within the 

 proper limits as any of the admitted ends and aims of ex- 

 istence, this casaripe is worth looking after, and the pep- 

 per-pot competition might prove as lively, and almost 

 as profitable as the crazy-quilt mania. — Emelie Harris. 



[The pepper-pot or mandram is a West Indian appe- 

 tizer composed of several ingredients, of which red 

 pepper and ochra are the chief. — Ed.] 



A Practical Hint to Onion Growers. — Manure the 

 land well with good, short, rotten manure ; dig the 

 ground to a good depth, mixing the manure well with 

 the soil. Rake the bed fine and run a light roller over 

 it. Draw out the drills one foot apart and half an inch 

 deep. Put a short stake into the ground at each end of 

 the row, and one in the middle ; sow the seeds in the 

 drills ; cover them tightly, and tread each row well in 

 with the foot. Now get some small string, tie the end 

 to the stake at the end of the first row, give it a turn 

 around the middle stake, then around the other end 

 stake ; carry it around the stake in the other row, and 

 so on, up and down each row. It will be a guide to en- 

 able one to hoe the ground from the first day after the 

 seed is planted, if thought desirable ; the hoeing will 

 check the weeds. — G. M. S., St. Paul, Mum. 



Celery Pests.~J. E. M., Portsmouth, R. I., will find 

 a remedy for celery pests in the following compound ; 

 Take equal parts of soot and sawdust, sprinkled with 

 fine lime, unslaked. If he could get some rich soil from 

 old decayed tree roots and put it around the celery 

 at the same time, he would be astonished at the growth, 

 He should cut the roots or nip them a little before trans- 

 planting them in the ground. He should also water 

 them occasionally with the suds of a washing day, and 

 urine water from cattle diluted with rain water. — Wil- 

 liam Street, Penii. 



The Black Wattle for Streets. — A Pasadena cor- 

 respondent of a California contemporary extols the 

 Australia black wattle as a street tree. This tree pro- 

 bably possesses merit for all the warmer portions of the 

 union. The tree is probably Acaeia decitrren.';, although 

 A. I>iuen>ata is sometimes known b)' the same name. 

 The correspondent writes as follows : 



' ' As the varieties of trees available for planting in our 

 climate are not numerous, I beg to call the attention of 

 the parties interested to the Australian black wattle, of 

 which tree specimens are growing on my house lot. 



' ' These trees were planted four years ago, having been 

 obtained from the State University. They were then 

 small spotted plants about six inches high. They are 

 now twenty to thirty feet high, showing a growth with- 

 out any care at all, second only to that of the eucalyp- 

 tus. They are evergreen acacias having dark feathery 

 foliage and forming a fine spreading head when trimmed 

 up from the root while growing. The standards, south 

 of my house, show- what they will do when allowed to 

 grow naturally. Those west of Dr. McCoy's house are 

 too close together (three feet) to show good heads. But 

 as the row in which they stand is from east to west, and 

 they were exposed to the full blast of last winter's 

 norther without falling over or breaking a limb, they 

 have proved themselves superior in this respect as a 

 street tree, to the omnipresent pepper tree, which fre- 

 quently goes over in a wet storm. 



"But the crowning glory of this tree is its flowers. 

 From the lowest branch to the topmost twig it is burst- 

 ing out in one mass of glory — the flowers appearing in 

 feather}' clusters of a greenish white color, in charming 

 contrast with the dark green of the leaves. The perfume 

 is that of bitter almonds. 



' ' How large the tree will grow I do not know, probably 

 no larger than the locust or pepper. But an avenue of 

 them planted twenty-fi\e or thirty feet apart, and trim- 

 med well up while growing, so as to keep the naturally 

 drooping lower limbs out of the way of travel, would 

 cause a deep shade and could hardly fail to add to the 

 appearance of the neighborhood, besides breaking the 

 monotony of the ever-present pepper tree. " 



The Rose. 



A beautiful flower is the rose to me. 



It may be white, it may be red : 

 In a little nook by the willow tree, 



'Tis the crowning joy of the flower bed. 

 More beautiful still is the rose, I ween. 



Whose grace of person and mind is more; 

 Of my blithesome heart she is reigning queen — 



This is the- rose whom 1 atlore. 



I. W. Sanborn, l.v„d,<iiviUr. ]'t. 



Notes on Shrubs in Orange County, New York. — 



The past winter and spring, so exceptional in their cli- 

 matic conditions, were most unfavorable for cultivated 

 shrubbery. After a winter so unprecedently mild that 

 the ground was unfrozen throughout, and without snow, 

 there were heavy snow-falls later in March, followed by 

 intense cold (io° below zero). Many things commenced 

 growth early in March as vigorously as is usual during 

 the latter part of April, only to be killed by the severe 

 freezing they received. At this time the ground was 

 well covered with snow and froze but lightly, which 

 seems to have saved the roots of many things. The 

 more noticeable thing was that the most severe sufferers 

 were of Asiatic origin , many of them were killed en- 

 tirely, as the Japan Judas tree (Cerris Jappniio) and 



