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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[July, 
are small. Keep all margins trimmed neatly. 
Mow often, and if the grass is not heavy, it need 
not be raked from the lawn. 
Borders and Beds should always be kept neat. 
Dress the surface with the rake, and hand pull 
weeds that gi'ow up in clumps of flowers and 
shrubs. Uuless flower seed is wanted, remove the 
clusters or stems after blooming is over. 
Bidbs are to be taken up when ripe, which may 
be kuoivn by the f^uliuL; of the leaves. When dry, 
they may be jiackcd in papers, or in dry sand. 
Tie up all plants that need supports, before they 
fall over, keejiiug the stakes as much out of sight 
as possible. Dahlias need a great deal of care in 
this respect, and not only the maiu stalk, but the 
heavier branches, will require support. 
Pruning of shade and ornamental trees may still 
be done. Evergreens may be shaped by a judicious 
use of tbe knife. Hedges, whether deciduous or 
evergreen, are to be clipped. 
Propagation of shrubs, vines, etc., by layers and cut- 
tings, is done when the new growth is firm enough. 
Many shrubs will grow from cuttings of green wood 
that are not easily propagated in any other way. 
Anmiah will need transplanting and thiuuing. 
Seed still sown of the quick growing kinds, will 
probably give plants that will blossom before frost. 
Seeds of perennials and other plants should be 
saved as they ripen. Many of the perennials do 
better if the seed be sown as soon as it is ripe. 
Poses will be attacked by various enemies, all of 
which, except the rosebug, will yield to syringing 
with strong soap suds or tobacco water. The bug 
must be picked by hand or shaken oif and caught 
upon a cloth. Tie up the new growth of pillar and 
climbing roses; make layers to increase the stock; 
cut back the remontauts to within three or four 
buds of the stem. 
Bedding Plants may be pegged down to evenly 
cover the ground, and 
Plants in Puts ought not to be neglected. They 
often suffer from dryness. 
Orceu and Hot-Houses. 
Thei-e is little to be added to the notes of last 
month. The plants which remain in the house will 
need watering, shading, and verrtilation, as well as 
cave in regard to insects. 
Alterations and i-epairs, painting and cleansing, 
overhauling the heating apparatus, etc., is usually 
put off too late, when the work has to be hurried. 
Better have everything ready, months too soon 
than days too late. 
Budding of green-house shrubs may be done 
whenever growing, .and prune such as need it. 
Foiling Material — Old hot-bed manure, good pas- 
ture loam, leaf-mold, and clean sand, sliould be laid 
in under cover. 
Propagate stock for winter blooming from cut- 
tings, and pot rooted cuttings aud seedlings. 
Camellias and other shrubs, set out of doors, 
must not suffer for want of shade or water. See 
that they are not overturned by the wind. 
€oI(l Grapery. 
The temper.ature of the house should be 90° to 
95° at mid-day, and sink to about 85° during the 
night. If there is a lack of sufficient moisture in 
tbe borders, mulch those outside, aud if necessary, 
water them with weak liquid manure. T^ontinue 
to pinch the later.als. The berries will need thin- 
ning, removing sufficient to prevent crowding. 
Slender scissors are made to use in thinning. The 
amount of thinning will depend upon tbe variety 
of grape, it is usually necessary to remove one-half 
and often more. Sprinkling is to be continued ev- 
ery evening, unless mildew attacks the vines, in 
which case it must be discontinued and the air of 
the house kept dry. At the first sign of mildew 
on the leaves, sprinkle sulphur freely over tbe floor 
of the house, and discontinue the spriukliug until 
the danger is over. 
Containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hiula and Suggestions which wc throw into smaller 
type and condenned form, for want of spaa elsewhere. 
'FUe Second BlnirorToliiiatc 35 com- 
mences \iith this number, aiid new subsciibeis can besin 
for a half or wlioJe year, tliough most peisons will desire 
the six splendid numbers already issueJ. We solicit a 
conlinufilion of the friendly aid of our readers, so freely 
bestowed in the past, in extending the circulation of the 
Agriculturist, promising on our part to spare no effort to 
make it a useful messenger wherever it may be sent. 
Xo So«*i-ofai"io*!i orAsricHlliii"!*! nnd 
Horticultural Societies. — Please send us your 
announcements of Fail s, Exliibitioiis, etc., early, as soon 
as you see tliis, if the time is fixed. Moreover, please 
indicate tlie State in which County Fairs are to be held, 
A good share of the circulars that come to us have this 
important item omitted. Our list of fairs is always 
eagerly sought for, and we wish to have it as complete 
as possible. 
Xlie AiuerioaH AssooiafSon Tor llic 
Advanccineut of Seieuce.— We are glad to learn 
that this body, which remained in a state of suspended 
animation during the last four or five years, is still alive, 
having survived botlithe war and itsown ungainly name. 
In foimer times these meetings used tu be both pleasant 
and useful. Persons engaged in the different depart- 
ments of science came together at some convenient point 
and told what they had been doing through the year, and 
had a pleasant time socially. These meetings .were not 
only useful to the members themselves, but to the com- 
munities in which they were held, as lliey served to 
awaken a popular interest in matters of science, and 
showed the people at large that philosophers and savants 
were not so diffeient fiom others, but tliat they ate, drank 
and had their little quarrels just like other folks. The 
meeting will be held this year at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 
loth of August. Prof. J. Lovering of Cambridge is Per- 
manent Secretary. The sessions are open to the public. 
Marlict Oardeiiiug' — I\eTV "^Vorli, — 
There has long been a demanil for a work upon .Market 
Gardening, and we aie glad to announce that an ex- 
perienced New Jersey market gardener has one in pre- 
paration. The gentleman engaged upon it has been a 
frequent contributor to the columns of the Agriculturist^ 
and from the practical cliaracter of his writings we look 
for a book of great value. It is his intention to give the 
whole art and mystery of profitable gardening, adapted 
both to market growers and the private family gardener. 
'A'lie Ifltniiesota Agrioiiltiiral So- 
ciety will hold its annual exhibition Oct. 3d, 4th, and 
5tii, at Rochester, Olmslead Co., situated in the heart of 
a rich agricultural region, and accessible from all parts 
of the Stale. We learn that great exertions are being 
put forth by the officers, executive comEniltee, and oth- 
ers, to make the Fair a very large one, and of extraordi- 
nary value to all the culiivalois of the State, and to the 
country at large. It well becomes every Minnesota 
faimer to lend a helping hand to the enterprise, both for 
his own benefit, and for the credit of that rapidly de- 
veloping agricultural State. 
Sundry 1Iitnit>ti«;-<« — Oeiieral Hints, 
—We have before us several hundred letters, sent in from 
all parts of the country, which show that the swindlers 
are yet active, but with greatly diminished profits. Mul- 
titudes of cases are given in which our words of caution 
and exposures have prevented the sending of money 
where it would have been inevitably lost. The Post- 
masters, generally, are doing a good work in wanyng 
people who bring in letters to mail to the humbug opera- 
tors.— The largest class of these are those who offer to 
sell watches, jewelry, etc., by means of tickets. Some 
claim to be agents of foreign manufacturers, and nearly 
all profess to have a stock w hich must be sold on account 
of the great fall in gold, or tlie failure of large establish- 
ments. We again pronoiince all ^hese statements un- 
mitigated falsehoods ! There have been no such failures. 
The value of gold and silver watches, jewelry, etc., is 
just as high relatively as ever, as can be learned from 
any honest, reliable tiealer.— Of the great nutnber of 
peisons offering these things, at least three-fnurths 7ierer 
tntend to 7nake any return for the motiey sent them. True, 
when we personally call upon them with the tickets sent 
I us, as we often do, they offer us the article called for by 
the tickets, on payment of the svim required, and some- 
times it is perhaps worth nearly that sum. But these 
cases are rare ; and further we arc usually put off from 
time to time, as we call, w ith the answer that the " boss" 
or head of the concern has just stepped out, or has gone 
to Philadelpliia, or elsewhere, and we must call again, 
which we often do to receive the same answer. But 
their usual course is, to make no reply to letters contain- 
ing money. If hard pressed, they plead that the money 
letters were lost by mail, or that the money was ab- 
stracted before its arrival. Wc estimate that of at It^ast 
$300,000 sent to this city recently, no response w as given 
for $250,000 of it. There is a small class of operators, 
five or six perhaps, who do send out the article they 
promise, but the cheating is done by making false re- 
presentations as to the value. They send out tickets 
{sometimes to be paid for and sometimes not) pronii.^ing 
for fiom $1 to $12 to send say a watch "valued at" or 
" marked at** $50 or $60. or $sn, and so on. Some of Ihem 
intend to, and do send the article promised, but in the end 
the receiver will find it "valued at" or "marked at" 
ten times its actual value, if not fifty times. There is a 
great business done in watches containing cheap "works" 
put into cases of brass or brittannia, but so finely covered 
witliathiii galvanized film of gold or silver that only a 
practiced eye can delect the fraud untd after a few weeks. 
The cost of these watches is from $2 to $3 or $1, and yet 
they are " valued at" or "marked at" from $00 to $100 
each. They are of little or no real value. Some send a 
little better watoh, butone not costing a fifth or even a 
tenth of their represented value. It is the same with the 
whole of this jewelry, etc., etc., offered by tickets. The 
parlies operate until the gilt begins to wear off. and then 
change their names. In the letters before us are circulars 
from a dozen or more parties who have changetl their 
names witliin two months.. .. Humbugs are springing up 
more numerously in country towns. *' Henry H. Ulman 
& Co,," Camden, N. J., is a sample of the class. They 
(or he) offers $300,000 to be distributed in prizes from $1 
up to $40,000 — a di.wnriglit swindle that will he patronized 
by none except fools, but that class "are not all dead 
yet." Jason H. Tuttle of Flatbrookville, N. J., one of 
the biggest swindlers out of jail, we thought had quit 
business under that name, but we receive frequent cir- 
culars and tickets of his issuing. Perhaps they are old 
ones, as they have no ilate J. Folsom of Moriah. N. 
Y., forwards ns 30 circular letters sent to persons of his 
name, including at least a dozen different ones to himself. 
These come apparently from different parties (swindlers), 
but the hand writing on them shows that several of them 
were addressed by the same person. We have pi'evious- 
ly explained that the same operators often run several 
different concerns Many letters of inquiry about dif- 
ferent concerns come, desiring answers. To save writing, 
we say heie, every one inquired about, is a swimlle 
Sewing machine tickets ($3 to $10 each) arc offered by 
several parties. Those who send anylhing. send a little 
instiument which is sold in quantity at $2.50 each, and 
not wortli buying at that price Those advertising to 
cure eyes and ears, with apparatus for the former, are 
little if any belter than humbugs. 
Pleiiro-Piicuiiionia, not Rintlcr* 
pest. — .Tust as we go to pie^s, we notice an associated, 
press dispatch in the N. Y. daily papers, which purports 
to be an extract from a circular from the President and 
Secretary of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society. We 
have not received the circular and cannot believe that 
these gentlemen do not distinguish between the Rinder- 
pest and the Pleura-pneumonia. The former nan e is by 
common consent confined now to the terrible infection 
which is and has been working such devastation among 
the herds of Great Britain, while Pleuro-pneumonia is 
applied to the lung murrain, which prevailed in Massa- 
chusetts a few years ago, and which has for several years 
been supposed to be domesticated in the swill milk stables 
of the city of New York and Brooklyn, whence it is oc- 
casionally carried to the farms of the vicinity. The 
subject comes properly under the consideration of the 
commissioners appointed under the new Rinderpest law, 
for the disease called Pleuro-pneumonia is exceedingly 
contagious and liable to do immense damage. The cau- 
tions said to be contained in the circular against buying 
cows from these stables, and advising careful examina- 
tion of ail cows offered for sale, are timely and wise. 
AinericaM 'I'ea 4?oi»i>a»y. — To Several 
quirers. Before admitting the advertisement, we learn 
ed that a large number of our clerks and others had for 
several months been buying iheir Tea and Coffee from 
this Company, without i'.s being known who they were, 
and that they had been hi^ldy pleased with their pur- 
chases, both as to quality and price, and were.:Ol re- 
commending their friends to the same course. As we 
have published the advertisements for many months, 
and received no complaints, we conclude there is no 
humbug about the establishment. 
