'Abucrtiscmcntg 
their full share of it. It is so, also, with the 
vegetable-nourishing gases which the air from 
time to time contains. Such lands also Buffer less 
in rainy seasons from excessive moisture, for the 
same qualities which enable them to absorb 
when there Is a scarcity, enable them to throw 
off when there is a superabundance. 
In the second place, deep and thorough tillage 
ns, conclusively, that the productive 
M APLEWOOD YOUNG I.\OIK8’ INSTITUTE, Pitts- 
lii'lil, Mass., commi'ncen Us 46th *umt-annual mission 
October i. IS0& Wu-st | 
Address Rev. C. V. SPEAR, tho Principal, for Circulars. 
VARIOUS HUMBUGS 
1 )ATENTS — In th« Onitkd Status, England. aud 
Franck, obtoinod on the most favorable terms, lit the 
Western N. V, Patent Agency at Rochester arid Buffalo, 
N. V l7H-4t| J. FRASER k CO. 
proves, to 
powers of earth are not always as nearly ex- 1 r u.™ r rr'ctM™i " 
hausted as many strive to imagine, but that the ^"YVrom f rootVnw‘ 
vile skinning, skimming system— the plowing tinpSStoth«suMcribor 
three, four, and five inches deep —is what in¬ 
duces the sterility so many lament. Any Clayey 
soil—and they are among the best for many pur¬ 
poses—may be made as barren as the desert of 
Sahara by such a system. Plow shallow, and 
the earth under the furrow will lose the Influence 
of the two essentials of fertility, sunshlue and 
air, and will, of course, become cold, compact, I 
and barren. Roots will avoid such earth; or, If 
they make an effort to penetrate it, it will be 
like attempting to extend themselves into a 
rock to meet the invigorating Influences of an 
iceberg. 
In tree-culture —especially in growing fruit 
trees—even a tolerable degree of success cannot 
be realized unless this shallow stirring of the 
oarth is given up and the earth stirred deep. 
Trees may, as we have seeD, sometimes live in 
such shallow soils, but they will always bo 
stunted, sickly, and produce but ordinary fruit; 
powers 
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Address, JAMEH Vlt’K, Rochester, N. V. 
“Some week 9 ago we saw a long article in the 
N. Y. Tribune , recommending the root of Ve¬ 
ronica qiiinqwfccia a* a grand panacea for scrof¬ 
ula in all its forms. We felt grieved to see such 
a qnackish article in so widely circulated a 
paper, but lot it pass unnoticed. Now that, we 
see in our esteemed cotemporary, the Rural 
New-Yorker, another article by the author of 
the one which appeared in the Tribune, we feel 
called upon to expose the thing. On reading 
these articles we, of course, suspected that there 
was a cat hidden under the meul, and upon 
making an inquiry, we ascertained that the 
writer of the articles was selling the root at 
three dollars an ounce, or two ounces for five 
dollars. The price of the article in the New 
York drug and herb stores, is less than one 
dollar a pound! The editors of the Tribune. 
and Rural New-Yorker have unwittingly 
Liuurr tki:i:k, uitvi't: vi.ni;n, 
r Will He foundal the Stsoeca Co. Naomi-io* a choice 
lot of Fruit Trees, which will be nobl cheap. I have on 
Imml 100.QO0 Apply 1'teea, ;i mid 4 jeam old; 20 000 I’laia 
Trees; 29,000Standard and Dwarf Pi-nr Trees All ol which 
are in tine order. Also, lu.oooi rear old Delaware Grape 
Vines; 20,000 1 your old do. Bohm-H's Strawberry plants, 
25 for 82. Ml; COnit S-l.OO; 100 for $OOo. Pat up in good order 
iind gent ns directed. 1 bftvu a good irngorlgneut of Tree#, 
Grape Vines nntl Flowers, such ssate usually kept by nur¬ 
serymen, which I would invite those winbiuir to purchase 
to call Mid examine for thetrmelvt'H. Located ft abort dis¬ 
tance North of the Depot, in Waterloo, N V 
|7ll-3tl E TAYLOR, Proprietor. 
\HA44tC 4IKANGH PLANTS. - Fur ibW Full only nt $8 
J pt-r 1.000- The usual oiscoapt, to the trade. 
THOMAS MEEHAN, Nnr.eryrnan, 
(710-6t] Germantown. Pa. 
/ <IDLU illll,L SUUEMN,—We are making the 
CUBA I'KST AND BK»T CIDKK MILL MJRKWH I.V TIIK 
worm), WboUt length, 4 leet. Length "I thread, :i >4 feet. 
Diameter of screw 4 Inches. Weight, including nut, 125 
pounds. I'rice, $9.00 each Address, 
171(1 -if) 4-44WING A CO., Soucea Falls, N. Y. 
but it Is more often the case that they die in the 
effort to live, and then comes the bitter denun¬ 
ciations on the nurseryman who reared them, the 
adverse climate, and sometimes the locality, and 
even the soil, which, under favorable culture, 
would be just the thing for them, is blamed for 
the lack of those qualities which man, in his 
indolence, or grasping after present gain, has 
taken from it. 
lo.ooo Standard Pica ns, approved varieties. 
SJO.OOO I lu-urf do. 
10,4100 Cherries, 
a,IMio Punches. 
<41,414)0 Apples, 4 yearn. 
Also, Grape Vines and small Fruits. 
This stock will he sold low to close, and there never has 
been a tree selected from it. Propag*t4id from choice im¬ 
ported stock. E. KETCH AM, AnK.vr. 
|7IO-4t) Tompkiifs Hotel, Geneva, N. Y. 
inquiries and 
Dwaiis and Stanoaiid Picars. —Intending in the fall 
to plant 2,000 pear trees—dwails and standards, on the 
same ground, will some of your horticultural readers 
please advise me on the best plan to adopt ax respects dis¬ 
tances apart and the arranging of the two sort#. Also, 
the best varirtie# to plant for Uio New York Market. In 
tending to plant the same land w ith strawImrrics, please 
advise the best market varieties.-A. IV, New York. 
plant, we hav« only to say, that it is much used 
by the so-called 'herb doctors,’and it possesses 
powerful cathartic aud eymetic properties. We 
judge it to be altogether too active an agent to_ 
be n8ed unadvisedly. If one is Ill enough to ‘ 
require a medicine ol this kind, he is in a condi- will not thri 
tion to need the advice of an intelligent pby- plum. Thrc 
gician.” mentioned a 
We are perfectly willing the Agriculturist and success 
should do the world 6ome service In fighting We cun rer 
humbugB, but at the same time a little care twelve year 
is neoess&ry, or our contemporary may find him- did not hav< 
self among the humbugged class. Wo have to many of u 
obtained plants of Mr. Rhino* of what he callB interesting I 
Veronica quinquefolia, and it is not, as stated by several lett 
the Agriculturist, Veronica Virginioa , nor can plums'to gi 
we find that V. Vinjinka is ever known by that the large, m 
name; indeed, it would be quite In Appropriate, are the mos 
The capsule of V. Virginica is oblong-ovate, is a great 
two-celled, opening by four teeth at the apex ? ready sale, 
many-seeded; that of V. quiiupcefolia is globose, Among tl 
membranaceous, ono-celled when ripe, (perhaps up to this 
by obliteration,) opening by five tijetli, aud few* notes, is tb 
seeded — about five —though but two or three fruit, with 
appear to lie perfect. The flowers of V. Vir- large as tL 
tjinica are borne in spiked racemes, terminal aud greenish ye 
axillary; those of V. quinqurJolia in axillary side. It ha 
whorls, or el astern, and each flower on a separate past, and 84 
peduncle half to three-fourths of an inch long. prince E 
V. qaintpufolvi has always five loaves together; a ,, row 
the other three or four, aud sometimes more. p Ur p|^ w ;t 
The flowers arc also different, though the plants ' ^ 
not ia such condition as to enable us to r ' 
TITE MCLAUGHLIN PLUM 
Seed or Wild CONV4ii.vn.ru —Will yon permit a not 
dier atul ft anbacriber to ask through your column# wheth¬ 
er tin* wild Convolvuli!# or Morning-glory Is a seed-bear¬ 
ing plant, ami If nnt haw it can be propagated There 
are in thi# neighborhood some varieties ot tlua plant which 
are very beautiful, and t have repeatedly searched th» 
vine# fur seed with a view of doinr>aicnting them at 
homo when this cruel war i* over, but have Uiu# far been 
unaucceiufuL Will Home of your numerous readers eu 
lighten roe t — Lewis Bailey, in Camp near Warrenton 
Jimetion, Fa. 
The plant to which you refer is not probably a true Con 
volvulus, though oominouly called #uch. it is doubtless 
perennial, nnd does uot perfect its seed, therefore you will 
have to depend upon Uie roots for propagation. If we 
had a specimen we could give its name, and perhaps more 
information respecting its habit#. 
low, tinged with red, with a rich, lively flavor. 
A first-rate bearer. 
Goliath , larger than the preceding, which it 
resembles, but distinguished lrom it by its gray, 
downy shoots. It is .also a few days later in 
ripening. 
McLaughlin is one of the best and most beau¬ 
tiful of plums. In quality it iti nearly or quite 
equal to Green Gage, while it is large and more 
beautiful. The tree is hardy, and vigorous, and 
productive; branches smooth, fruit large, and 
I nearly round, as shown in the engraving, and 
flattened at both ends. The suture Is barely 
perceptible. Stalk, * firee-lourths of an inch long, 
inserted in a small cavity with a ring. Skin, 
thin and yellow, and dotted and marked with 
red on the sunny side, and covered with a thin 
bloom. Flesh dull yellow, rather film, juicy, 
sweet, and luscious, and adheres to the stone. 
It ripens the latter part of August We give a 
fine engraving of this plum. 
Lawrence's Favorite, and other fine varieties, 
which we have not sullicient space to describe, 
are also now in fruit 
DEEP DIGGING. 
William Bacon, Esq., describes an interest¬ 
ing experiment In deep digging, which we give 
below. We have also a letter from an old gar¬ 
dener, stating that he came in possession of an 
old garden, tried lo grow onions, but failed two 
seasons, although pretty liberal with manure. 
The third season dug it two spades, mixed the 
subsoil with the surface earth, gave no manure, 
and raised a “ big ” crop: 
Last spring we took a comer of an old garden 
spot,—it had always been liberally manured and 
plowed as well as such a piece of ground could 
be,—and to put it in a condition for fruit trees, 
we gave a good dressing of manure and a thor¬ 
ough spading to the full depth of an unworn 
spade, the longest we could find In the market 
In this spadiug operation, we often came in con¬ 
tact with a subsoil so stiff that it offered a strong 
resistance to the spade; still the spade was put 
in, at the cost of much physical exertion. The 
old soil and manure were laid in the bottom of 
the trench, and the heterogenous and apparently 
sterile matter on which it had reposed, were 
placed upon the surface. This new earth, upon 
much of which the sun had never shone, and the 
dew had never fertilized, was, in duo time, 
were 
analyze the flowers. We doubt whether the 
plant sent us as Veronica epdrupufolia Is really a 
Ferontca, or that it con be properly classed in 
the same Natural Order— Sckoi'UOLaruoea?. 
We have nothing to say of the virtues of this 
plant, but if the one sent us by Mr. Prince is 
the one he propagates, and which the Agricul¬ 
turist undertook to describe, that paper is cer¬ 
tainly very wide of the mark. 
In the same number of the Agriculturist from 
which we cut the above extract about “ 
(710-fit] 
govticultural $tate$ 
Fruit Growers’ 8ocibtt oir Western New York.— 
The Autumn Meeting of the Fruit Growers’ Society of 
Western New York will be held in the Conrt House in the 
City of Rochester, on Tuesday, the 28th day of Septem¬ 
ber inst. The session will commence at II o'clock A. M. 
Members are invited to bring Specimens of Fruit for ex¬ 
hibition. 
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This admirable machine is now ready for the fruit bar- 
vest of 185:',. It, is, If poMilii", made hotter than ever be¬ 
fore, and «oll worthy the attention of all fanner* wautiug 
^ sii"ierifir in the market, and is the only mill that 
will property grind grunes. For «ulo by all respectable 
If your merchant -loos not keep them. teU him to send 
for one for you, or write to the r n a no f i c 1 11 rer y «u me If. 
Addrem the manufacturer, ,,) v , K , - i, 
1709 9tl Eagle Works, Harrisburg, I'a. 
Cokfbs Auain.— Out Mawachusctt# friends seem »n- 
uoyed that Tllinoi* *houM have all tho glory of coffee 
growing. A Newburyport paper says that a citizen grow* 
(t as successfully a* the tomato or Lima beau. They are 
above the Illinoisans in this, that while they are satisfied 
with “Australian” coffee, the Bay State men are going 
pito raptures over their success with the real thing; for of 
course it i# a success; ha# not Mr. Somebody raised a crop? 
With Pennsylvania tea and Massachusetts coffee, cannot 
Maine furnish us with bananas, and New Hamp#hire and 
Vermont all the other luxuries of the tropics ?— Gardn¬ 
ers' Chronicle- 
Various 
Humbugs,” we find a column or so about u new 
grape from Japan, called the YeddaGrape, con¬ 
taining remarks by the editor, and Mr. Parsons, 
tho nurseryman of Flushing—the precise local¬ 
ity of Wu. R. Prince. Knowing that hundreds 
of foreign grapes have been tried in this country, 
and all have failed, while many thousands of 
dollars have been lost in the experiments, we 
began to fear that this was one of the “ various ” 
humbugs with which we are troubled. A look 
at the advertising columns of the Agriculturist, 
where we found that Parsons A: Co. were wil¬ 
ling to “ dispose of a lew plunts to the first who 
apply—the plants cut down to two eyes, and 
their price ten dollars each," had a tendency to 
confirm rulber than dispel our fears. While our 
friend of the Agriculturist is keeping such a 
sharp look out for the motes abroad, he should 
pay a little attention lo the beams at home. 
rno CHEESE ID ^XH.YlvnQIsr. 
1 RALPH’S PATENT IMPROVED 
“ONEIDA CHEESE VAT,” 
Whs awarded the First Prkjhicm, after a tkimniah test, 
at the New York State Fair, WL. Ia the moat simple, dur¬ 
able and effective 
ChecNc-yiaklng Apparatn* 
in tiHe- Feed in dairies of 10 to 1,000 cows. The only Vat 
well adapted to 
“Eactory” tiUeese-Making. 
More economical hi u#e than steam, and much lex# expen- 
#ive in cos* HUo# vnryiuv from M to :vz Eallnn* on band 
and rendv for deliver ,-,—larger nixes for Factory me made 
Russel’s Prolific Strawberry.— A correspondent 
under the cognomen of “ Fair Play,” writes us from Au¬ 
burn, that the statement made by several persons that 
RutttlVt Prolific Strawberry tells for twice as much a# 
Triomphe do (land, in that city, i.< incorrect. We always 
had some doubt* of the reliability of that statement, for 
wc could see no reason why it should bo *o. Tho fruit is 
not larger, and wo doubt if it la superior in quality. Tho 
fact that it is thought to bo much more productive should 
not make the fruit higher priced. It 1# a rule which wc 
cannot violate, to insist on the mimes of all correspond- 
cuts who give us.statements of facts. Tho name# of cor¬ 
respondent.* may not be published, but we desire them a# 
nn evidence of good faith, and for future reference. 
things would never grow there. They were 
sown and planted to furnish a motive for a con¬ 
tinued tillage through the season, and, in addi¬ 
tion, the ground was planted out with dwarf 
pear trees. The season in our region, as iu 
many other sections of country, was one of dis¬ 
tressing drouth—but very little raiii from May 
to October—and, in consequence, the ground on 
this patch was probably oltener and more thor¬ 
oughly hoed than it would have been had the 
dews aud rains fulfilled their labors as Usual. 
We now speak of the result Our Pear trees 
(gome twenty) ou this patch, not only lived but 
made a desirable growth; aud as for the vegeta¬ 
bles—melons, cucumbers, tomatoes, Ac-., Ac., to 
the eud of the catalogue—they gave us a crop 
superior to any we had raised for years. 
From this operation, we infer, in the first place, 
that deep and thorough tillage, and frequent 
stirring of the earth, are good preventives of the 
effect of drouth. The deeper and better pulver¬ 
ized the soil, the greater its power of absorption; 
consequently, whenever there is moisture in the 
atmosphere, such lands are certain to attract 
THE PLUM. 
The ravages of the Curculio, which destroyed 
the fruit, and the disease known as Black Knot, 
which killed the trees, for many years discour¬ 
aged the cultivation of the plum. For the past 
fifteen years few trees have been planted, except 
for the garden, few cultivators being bold enough 
to put out trees for market culture. The result 
has been that most of the old trees throughout 
the oountry have died, while the few young ones 
that have been planted have been well cared for 
and produced good fruit. The Curculio has 
thus been much curtailed iu its range, and hosts 
of them have been destroyed by careful cultiva¬ 
tors. The disease has also been checked and is 
not now a serious detriment to cultivation. 
This state of things for a year or two past has 
encouraged the more general planting of plum 
trees; and our markets will soon be supplied 
with plums of the best quality. Where the peach 
Hoot Par; .vino. —Thi* is test performed in autumn, 
when the root* arc comparatively inactive. The object in 
view ia to check over lu» urlance by depriving the tree# of 
superfine)u« food; #nd to encourage the production of blos¬ 
som bud# instead of leaf bud*. The amount of root* to 
be cut away mild be in proportion to the vigor of the 
trees; in my opinion more than a fourth part should nev¬ 
er be removed, nnd that nhouUt consist of the extremities 
only, carefully preserving the surface roots, which #hou!d 
be encouraged by every possible means. My attention 
was recently directed to a wall of peach trees, which had 
been root pruned early in the spring; a trench had been 
dug perpendicularly to the (lag flooring at a distance of I 
fcot from tho wall, completely divesting tho tree* of all 
root* beyond that distance; the result evidently i* the de¬ 
struction of the trees, and young one* have been planted 
to replace them. This was accomplished in a ilr»t clash 
garden, which shows that care is as nccensary In root 
pruning as it is in tho preparation of borders.— Ueorgt 
Westland. 
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