PRUNING WHEN TRANSPLANTING, 
We consider it important to shorten back all 
fruit trees, shrubs and vines when transplanting. 
It lessens, by reducing the number of buds, the 
demand for supply on the roots as soon as that 
laid-up in the bud is exhausted, and it gives In¬ 
creased vitality and vigor to the remaining buds, 
by giving to them the supply that would have 
been devoted to those removed, had they been 
left to remain. There is, however, room for 
study in the practice of heading-in, because of 
the vigor of growth and power of producing 
strong, new shoots being much greater in some 
sorts than others. The poach, for instance, may 
be cut back to wltliiu two feet of the crown, 
leaving not a limb or twig, and yet the treo in 
the ensuing fall will be found, under good culti¬ 
vation, to have made four or live strong shoots, 
each as many feet long, and with abundant late¬ 
ral branched. Pursue the same course with the 
apple, and nine times out of ten the result will 
be only a few feeble shoots of four to six inches, 
with a dead tree the following spring. The pear 
when worked on the <piluce will bear much move 
severe pruning back than when on the pear 
stock; and further, some varieties will endure 
more severe pruning than others. The grape, 
when cut back two or three buds, growB vigor¬ 
ously; but if left impruned, It struggles a year 
or two, produces a few imperfect bunches, and is 
dead. These are some of the many variations 
that au observing horticulturist will notice on 
short practice, and which will soon cause him to 
feel contkiouce in transplanting trees at any age, 
provided ho be allowed to prune them back 
Horticulturist. 
A KNITTING MACHINE PREMIUM! 
FARMERS’ GARDENS-NO. in. 
Tub farmer can afford to use a quantity of 
manure in his hot-bed to produce heat sufficient 
to warm properly a layer of six or seven inches 
of soil above it. In our lost article we advised 
the use ot inverted sod, covered with several 
inches of the best garden soil and resting on a 
thin layer of earth. Care should be token to 
Ixavc tbiB sod free from roots of strong growing, 
pernicious weeds. Sod is not essential, but its 
U6C will aid in the matter of transplanting, and 
it generally follows that a rich 60 il for the 
growth of seeds lies immediately under an old, 
compact turf. The surface of the earth in the 
hot-bed should be raked thoroughly, and if the 
soil is rather heavy, sand may be sifted over and 
incorporated with it; leaf mold is also excel¬ 
lent. 
Having the hot-bed prepared for the reception 
of the seed, put on the frames of cloth, to cover 
it tight, and wait three or four days before put¬ 
ting in the seed. This delay is necessary, be¬ 
cause too much heat will be evolved at first 
from the manure; the first fermentation is rapid 
and energetic, and the thermometer will fre¬ 
quently mark over 100° at this period in the hot¬ 
bed, but in two or three days It cools off, and 
when at a temperature of 70° or SO 0 the secd6 
may be sown. 
The farmer will use his hot-bed to start vari¬ 
ous plants. Lettuce will be freely sown, as it 
comes forward rapidly, and maybe used directly 
from the bed for the table as well as Btorted for 
open air culture. Early cabbage, cauliflower, 
pepper, egg, tomato and celery plants will de¬ 
mand space in the hot-bed. The ladies will re¬ 
quire room to start their tlowcr seeds. Cucum¬ 
bers and melons should be forwarded in hills, so 
that the entire hill may be removed to the open 
ground at the proper time. No more plants 
should be grown in each hill In ttie hot-bed than 
are destined to remain and bear fruit. Tomato 
plants may be put in huge pots or wooden boxes 
and left in the bed until they flower aud the fruit 
is partially grown. If there is sufficient room, 
potatoes may be forwarded very profitably by 
planting single eyes three inches apart each 
way, When the plants arc three or four inches 
high, remove them to the open ground with the 
trowel; they will stand a high degree of cold 
uninjured! For growing sweet potatoes, a hot¬ 
bed is essential. 
There is no part of the garden that will give 
the farmer more pleasure and profit, if well man¬ 
aged, than his hot-bed. By its aid he Is enabled 
to furnish his table with vegetables and fruits in 
advance of the season, turning by this use the 
most common products into luxuries and greatly 
prolonging,thc season of their enjoyment The 
care becomes a source of pleasure, in which all 
the family have a share, aud the most essential 
points iu this arc to give the plants air wlu-n the 
outside temperature is right, keep them well 
covered when it is too cold, and maintain con¬ 
stantly the proper degree of moisture. 
Several ladies having asked us to offer the 
Lamu Family Knitting Machine os a pre¬ 
mium to Club Agents, we have finally made 
such an arrangement that we can do so to their 
advantage, if not ours. Wo will give the $(55 
machine to every person remitting at Club rate, 
$3.50 per copy, for Sixty - Five Yearly Subscri¬ 
bers to the Rural New-Yorker previous to 
the first of .Inly next. Subscriptions to count 
for this premium may begin with the Year and 
Volume (January 5, 1807,) or at, any time not 
later than July 6, and club papers will be sent 
to us many different Post-@fflces, Counties or 
States os desired. All papers will bo addressed 
to individual subscribers, so that Agents or 
Poet-Musters will have no trouble. It is not 
necessary to have all the members of a Club 
commence at the same time; those wishing 
them can have back numbers, and others begin 
at any date desired. 
Now, Ladles, if you wish to secure a machine 
that will save you many times its cost, “ tly 
round 
and got up a club for the favorite Rural ! 
VAN BUREN'S GULDEN DWARF PEACH-TREE AND FRUIT 
WASHING DAY 
This peach originated in the year 1856 with 
J. Van Bpren, Esq., au eminent pomologist of 
the State of Georgia, and is supposed to be an 
accidental cross between the Italian Dwarf and 
Van Zandt’s Superb. Tbe rebellion interfered 
with Mr. Van Burbn's arrangements for propa¬ 
gating it extensively, bnt a supply of bnds having 
been furnished to Milieu <& Co., of Chester 
Co., Pa., by Dr. J. V. Evans, who received some 
trees directly from Mr. Van Boren, this firm 
are now introducing it to notice. From them 
we received the following description — and an 
advertisement which appears elsewhere. 
The original tree when four years old was but 
28 inches high, but being worked now on strong 
roots the trees attain a height o!' four or five feet. 
The illustration of the tree was taken from one 
forming its first year’s growth, and the fruit is 
an average specimen in size. It ripens in Sep¬ 
tember, and is described as of good flavor, golden- 
yellow color, with a rich carmine cheek. The 
foliage of the tree is large, dark-green in color, 
and extremely dense. The buds are thickly set, 
shooting strong and vigorous, and it bears large 
crops. It may prove a decided acquisitiou for 
the garden and orchard house. 
I ALWAYS read everything that comes in my 
way tirnt looks towards ameliorating the severi¬ 
ties of washing day. That was why I read what 
Peter Hathaway had to say In the Rural 
New-Yorker Of Jan. 19th. Like him, “ I have 
from boyhood sympathized with delicate women 
who weekly labor at the wash tub,” and I think 
the facts presented by him aro worthy of being 
tested. Rubbing clothes by band certainty in¬ 
volves a great deal of labor and exposure to hot 
steam, Ac.; and rubbing , by either hand or ma¬ 
chinery, subjects the garments to a groat deal of 
wear, and sometimes tear. 
Within a, few years I have tested several kinds 
of squeezing machines. One of these I have used 
for several years. For efficiency and saving tho 
wear of clothes, 1 find but little difference in 
them. They are all superior, In my opinion, to 
any of the rubbing machines. But for case of 
working, efficiency, and several other practical 
points, some of which l will mention, Doty’s 
machine Is ahead of any that 1 have ever seen 
used. In fact, I can hardly see how or where 
improvement is needed. Ease of working is 
already mentioned. A child largo enough to 
reach tho handle, can use its strength to good 
advantage. A child of average strength, twelve 
years old, can do a washing for a common family. 
The machine has a nice fitting cover which an¬ 
swers at least three purposesIt keeps tho 
water hot; it keeps tho steam out of the face of 
the operator; it keeps tbe filthy snds from spat¬ 
tering out upon the floor, and upon tho pqrson 
of tho operator. This lost is quite an Item, for 
you can do your washing in a parlor, or witli a 
little care yon can keep your wash-room us dry 
as a parlor. One more nse of this useful cover. 
The machine, being light and portable, can ho 
carried out of the way, but need not be, for the 
cover comes again to your relief and converts it 
intoa quiet water bench or table. If yourwater 
pail leaks, no matter, you will find no water on 
the floor. Any family that is perfectly happy 
every day in the week but one, should get Doty’S 
washer, and hco If its bliss is not consummated. 
In order that each family can test these machines, 
those having them on sale allow any responsible 
family to nse them three weeks before deciding 
the purchase. This ought to ben sufficient guar¬ 
anty against humbug. Yours, for tho public. 
Henry A. Trench. 
according to their age and habits, 
From the nature of our climate wo can not, as 
a rule, have as perfect lawns, green, velvety, 
and fresh, as they do In England; but with due 
care in preparing the Boil, and by using seed in 
abuudauce, we can create the foundation of a 
lawn equal to theirs, and that by proper care and 
attention to mowing, rolling, etc., will present 
au equally good appearance eight mouths out of 
the nine that we expect to enjoy it. 
No complete lawn, no durable lawn, no lawn 
that will bear extremes of beat iu summer aud 
preserve the roots of grass from cold in winter, 
can bo created without forming for it a soil of 
the best quality, tight, loose, aud friable, at 
least sixteen inches deep. A ud further, no good 
lawn, no perfect mat of grass can be obtained In 
one, two, or three years, without an abundance 
of seed. All spaces not occupied by seeds of 
grass sown must and will be filled witli a growth 
of weedB that, as they grow, absorb the elements 
of plant-lifo in the soil, and choke the young 
and more tender growth of grass. For an acre, 
use two bushelB of Blue Grass, two bushels of 
lied Top, and twenty pounds of white clover, 
and sow as early as possible iu spring,— Jlort. 
WINE AND GRAPES.-NO. I 
lence; but they arc held in such high esteem by 
connoisseurs at home, and produced in such 
small quantities that they seldom find their way 
here, and then only at extravagant prices on in¬ 
dividual or private orders, Gne pipe of the 
Steinberg vintage was sold in the year 1822 for 
the snm of 5,000 florins, or $7.14 per gallon, and 
in 1831 the same kind of wine for a uo less sum 
than 10,000 guilders the pipe, or $14.28 the gal¬ 
lon, if we can believe Johann Carl Lector's 
statements, which we have no reason to doubt. 
What must be the quality, in view of these as¬ 
sumed facts, ot the w n s imported on which a 
duty ol 20 eta. was paid by the importer per 
gallon, and sold at 90 els. per gallon, aud some 
even os low ns <5 eta., of which there has been 
no inconsiderable) quantity brought to tliisooun- 
To enable ns to judge of the advancement and 
present condition of grape growing and wine 
malting in this country, let us take a brief glauce 
at its history, noting as we pass some of the Im¬ 
positions to which we. have been exposed. 
The first native wine of which we have any 
account was made in what is now the State of 
Florida iu 1564, by emigrants from Spaiu, of 
grapes growing wild and uncultivated in Na¬ 
ture's vineyard, the primitive forest. Of its 
quality or quantity we know little or nothing, 
and it may be presumed, as a business under¬ 
taking, it was neither long coutimied nor very 
successful, or it would have attracted attention 
enough to have given it greater notoriety. VY o 
find, in the early history of thiB country, men¬ 
tion made of similar attempts to manufacture 
wine from native wild grapes by emigrants from 
France, in Delaware, in 1648. Tho cultivation ol 
foreign varieties of vines for wine purposes wus 
commenced as long ago as 1663 in several of the 
British North American colonies, but failed, in a 
few years, to bo renewed only alter these efforts 
were forgotten, with the same result. Efforts 
of this kind were made at other and different 
times and places up to the commencement of the 
present century, when Borne Swiss settlers un¬ 
dertook tho cultivation of a native grape, culled 
Cape, or Schuylkill Muscudcl, at Vevay, Tnd., 
and made wine with better and more encour¬ 
aging success Until had been previously attained. 
But they, like their predecessors in the manufac¬ 
ture of wines in this country, bad to acknowl¬ 
edge, or did by its abandonment, their failure of 
satisfactory success. 
Such a succession of efforts and failures by 
parties at widely different points, with climate, 
soil, and cultivation us various as ean be im¬ 
agined, reaching through a period of over two 
hundred years, naturally brought tho public 
mind to the settled conclusion Unit our soil and 
climate were unsuited to foreign vines, and that 
none existed here from which grapes could be 
obtained to make a wine suitable to satisfy rea¬ 
sonable expectations, or fill the place of that 
imported. We were, and had been, therefore, 
reliable customers, from necessity, of foreign 
wine merchants. Those of Germany supplied 
us with the smaller quantity and better quality, 
as a whole, while France liimmhed some excel¬ 
lent, but a large proportion of inferior quality, 
as is generally believed. The frauds and impo¬ 
sitions to which we were thus subjected can be 
judged ot to some extent by what M. Dk 
Szesieke, a Frenchman, says of wine fabricating 
In his own country. I give bis own words :— 
u The marvelous discoveries of chemical science 
are continually and skillfully applied, not only 
to Improve, but to adulterate wines. This trade 
ot spurious wines is carried on in France on a 
large scale. All is false in tbe wines; the color, 
tho strength, the flavor, the age, and even the 
name under which they are sold. There are 
wines which do not contain a drop of grape 
juice. Even science is impotent to distinguish 
the true from tho false, so complete is the imi¬ 
tation. Certainly, one-half of the Parisian popu¬ 
lation drink, under the name of wiue, a mixture 
in which there is not one drop of grape juice.” 
The same gentleman gives interesting state¬ 
ments showing the amount of real wine pro¬ 
duced in France to be less than she annually 
consumes, judging from the productions of 
1854-55-50 aud ’57. We received from there last 
year, in casks only, to say nothing of bottled 
wines, 6,885,360 gallons. How much of this 
was poire I leave for others to determine, or ■ 
judge from the statements here made, I believe ' 
that a large portion of the cheap wines 
brought and consumed here as French, are mere 
fabrications. I would not undertake to say that 
all foreign wines ure of this character by any 
means. We have, without doubt, the really 
pure, genuine European wines in this country, 
which are ^ouT standard of quality and excel¬ 
i cannot, deny myself the privilege of this op¬ 
portunity of saying it is ardently to bo hoped 
that Congress will give the iuffint enterprise of 
wine making in this country the benefit of the 
proposed addition of 30 eta. a gallon duty on 
foreign wines, if they cannot guard or protect 
us against fraud and imposition. 
About the year 1825, Major Anna! of George¬ 
town, D. C’., brought prominently before the 
public a native grape from North Carolina, the 
Catawba, or such great excellence for wine pur¬ 
poses, In his judgment, that it, 1ms been reported 
he said that by so doing be had rendered his 
conntry greater service than he would have done 
had he. paid off the national debt; In which Mr. 
Lonowouth, the pioneer of successful wiue 
making in America, publicly professed concur¬ 
rence after giving to its cultivation and wine 
making qualities the attention, energy, skill and 
practical judgment for which he was distinguish¬ 
ed, und which added such weight to his opinion. 
A new era dawned upon the country with the 
advent of this noble fruit to public attention. 
It was believed a wine could he made from it to 
take tbe place of the pare and impure from 
abroad. Expectancy ran high above realization, 
but no final disappointment overtook its friends 
in tho belief that it was far superior to any hith¬ 
erto known. 
So rapid did it grow in favor, and so extensive 
its cultivation, that a few years only elapsed be¬ 
fore gentlemen of sagacity discovered that an 
opportunity offered lor profitable investment in 
establishing wine cellars and press houses, for 
tho manufacture of Catawba still aud sparkling 
wiue. The impetus thus given, and the success 
and reward attending these efforts, soon attract¬ 
ed the attention of the lovers of good fruit and 
pure wine iu other localities, and it was not 
long before the whole country was awakened on 
wine making and grape growing. Other varie¬ 
ties, as thu Isabella aud old Cape, were used to 
a limited extent, but soon had to give place to 
the nation’s favorite, the Catawba. Wine began 
to be made at various places by individuals for 
private use; new grapes came forward, and in a 
short time discussions arose as to their merits, 
and the defects of each, as well as their excel¬ 
lencies, became more generally known. Mr. 
Long worth, to whose large experience and ex¬ 
tended knowledge of wiue making all looked 
witli respectful attention, was neither blind nor 
indifferent to the defects in the uativc grapes 
then known. The rough acidity and strong foxi- 
ness that characterize our wines were justly es¬ 
timated by him, when in 1849, in an article pub¬ 
lished in the Cincinnati Gazette, he said “ A 
native grape of different aroma and flavor, and 
in all other respects equal to the Catawba, would 
be worth a million of dollars to the nation.” 
Pleasant Valley, N. Y. C. D, Chameldt. 
The Castor Beam — Information Wanted.—'* G. 
M. J.,” Colombia, Texas, sends os the following 
qaery“Can any of your readers give au account of 
llie mode of cultivating, gathering, preparing for 
market aud yield of the Castor Beun? What is it 
worth in the market now i It will grow la the great¬ 
est exuberance bare, aud if cultivation is profitable 
anywhere it surely would be here.” Will some of 
our experienced cultivators answer? 
gorti cultural aufl (Queries 
Orapk Growers’ Excursion. At the late meeting 
of the Lake Shore Grape Growers’ Association it was 
resolved to continue tho practice of having a summer 
excursion, and for this your it is to be on a grander 
scute than ever before. A large steamboat is to bo 
chartered If possible to accommodate aa runny of the 
members as wlBh to go, with their families or friends, 
say 200 or 800 Id ail, with hotel convenieneies aboard, 
for a erulsc of four or five days, starting perhaps from 
Dunkirk or Erie, aud stopping at Cleveland, Sandus¬ 
ky, &c., then visiting tho Islands and having a grand 
picnic at Put-lu-Bay, and afterwards taking a pleasure 
trip to Detroit and back to Sandusky or Cleveland. 
C’apl. J. SPAm.m.No was appointed to look tip u suita¬ 
ble boat, und report to the officers of the Association. 
VINELAND, N. J. 
1 am indebted to a friend for a Vineland 
Weekly, from which I learn one of the principal 
secrets of the great success of a Mr. Landis iu 
settling his extensive tract of thin pine and 
shrnb oak plains in that region, instead of sell¬ 
ing to speculators those parts of his tract which 
contain large deposits of swamp muck aud vege¬ 
table mould, he wisely holds them as manorial 
deposits for the general good—giving to each 
settler the privilege of digging all the muck lie 
pleases for the amendment of his land, free 
gratis. One of the new settlers writes to the 
editor that he has so far availed himself of the 
generous privilege that, by the aid of muck 
alone, he has grown seventy-five bushels of Dent 
com to the acre. Green-sand marl, which is 
brought there by the car load direct from the 
deposits, is also a capital amendment for that 
light, sandy soil; and both the muck and the 
marl are also invaluable agents in economising 
the stall manures, as both substances have great 
affinity for the salts of the manure. Altho’ the 
muck itself, if made of deciduous vegetation, is 
stiff richer in nitrogen than ordinary furm-yard 
manure, yet it contains so much carbon that 
when dry it is a good absorbent of the salts of 
ammonia. 
There is no doubt that the pine and shrub 
oak plains of Long Island might be made as pro¬ 
ductive us these cognate plains of Vineland with 
the aid of the same amendments. But, altho’ 
the surface soil there is sufficiently adhesive to 
be made into adobe bricks, it needs organic ma- 
nnre, and there are no muck deposits or calca¬ 
reous clays in that region to compensate for the 
scarcity of staff manures. But the great value 
of commercial manure, Peruvian guano, super¬ 
phosphate and poadrette, are beginning to be 
better duderetood and appreciated, both at Vine- 
land and on.Long Island, and tbe day is fust ap¬ 
proaching when the great designs of Providence 
will be fulfilled, and the festering animal and 
vegetable corruptions which now send ship lever 
and choiera'to decimate the great cities, will be 
daily removed and utilized a la Chine, as the 
great means of increasing and perpetuating 
vegetable life in these sterile plains, which have 
lain waste ever since the subsidence of the waters 
of the great drift period of the world’s forma¬ 
tion. * 
VARIOUS ORIGINAL RECIPES, &c. 
Buckwheat Cakes.— Seeing an inquiry in 
your paper for making buckwheat cakes, I send 
you my recipe, which I thiuk a little extra. I 
take two quarto of sweet milk and stir in flour 
enough to make a thin batter; as it thickens by 
raising, add one teacup of yeast; let it stand 
where it is warm enough to raise; just before 
baking put in one half teaspoonful of soda and 
two tablespoonfuls of thick cream, or one of 
melted butter. The cream and soda I put in 
every morning, and I think my cakes good 
enough for any one.—A Farmer’s Wife, Wind¬ 
ham Station. 
White Potato Pudding. — A quarter of a 
pound of butter, 14 pound of sugar, 4 or 5 eggs, 
1 pound of potatoes mashed exceedingly fine, 
with a little cream and salt through a colander; 
2 tablespoonsful of brandy, 1 grated nutmeg 
with a teaspoonful of cinnamon. Beat tho 
butter and sugar to a cream, then add the po¬ 
tato, eggs, brandy aud spice. Line your plates 
with paste and bake in a quick oven. When 
done and cool, slip into plates suitable for tbe 
table, and sift white sugar over them. 
Mending Broken Vessels — Cement. — To 
half a pint of milk put a sufficient quantity of 
vinegar in order to curdle it; separate the curd 
from the whey, and mix the whey with the 
whites of (our eggs, beating the whole well to¬ 
gether; when mixed, add a little quick-lime 
through a sieve until it acquires tho consistency 
of a paste. With this cement broken vessels or 
cracks can be repaired; It dries quickly, and re¬ 
sists the actiou of fire aud water. 
Tub Fhuit Ueoion of 1 St. Joseph, Mioir.— Henry 
W. Gustin writes as from St. Joseph, Mich., thut tho 
prospect in thut region for a full crop of fruit is at 
present very flattering. Last season was very favor¬ 
able for maturing the wood of fruit trees, and experi¬ 
ence has taught fruit growers there that it is only 
from severe cold in the winter, acting on immature 
wood, that they have to four serious failure. This 
danger Is now past. The following statistics relative 
to the fruit region aro believed to ho accurate:—Of 
peach trees there are 820,000, or 2,000 acres; pear 
trees, 50,000, or 500 acres; cherry trees, 5,000, or 50 
acres; strawberries, 800 acres; raspberries, 2(H) acres; 
blackberries, 200; applo trees, In tho fruit region 
proper, there are believed to be enough to yield 80,000 
barrels. 
Catalogues. &o.. Received.— Transactions of the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the year 1800, 
containing tho Reports of various Committees, Ad¬ 
dress of the President, &e.-Catalogue of Rare and 
Valuable Heed Potatoes; Smith, Jokes, & Co., Erie 
county, Ohio. 
Sawdust for Mulching Strawberries—Berry 
Boxes. — (M. L. MeC., Benton Harbor, Mich.) Saw¬ 
dust is a good material for mulching Strawberries; if 
it Is fresh put it on early In the season. For the best 
style of berry boxes sec advertisement in Rubai, of 
January 5t.h. 
Grafting Wax.—A correspondent sends us this 
recipe for making grafting wax:—“Six pounds rosin, 
one pound beeswax, one pint linseed oil; melt and 
work till it will swim in water. The oil resists cold, 
water and heat better than tallow.” 
Tub Apple Tree Bober.— (W. J B., Grassland, 
Mo.) You must search carefully each tree for the 
borer and destroy him by running a sharp wire into 
hiB hole. It is some work, but the only effectual 
remedy. Eternal vigilance is the price of fruit. 
AN Inquirer, J. 8. R., wishing a method of 
washing flannel, I will give you my way, which 
I have tried for some years and have not found 
it to fail:—Put them in water as hot as you can 
possibly wash them in, and rinse them in hot 
water also. Wash woolen stockings the same. 
—Mrs. Emily 8. 
English Hawthorn.— A correspondent desires in¬ 
formation about the English Hawthorn; when to 
plant, how to grow It, Its hardiness and practicability 
lor hedges, &c. Who will answer? 
Mulching Small Fruits.—T ho Horticultural Asso¬ 
ciation of Western Michigan recommends the mulch¬ 
ing of small fruits for the following reasons:— 1st, it 
affords protection against winter killing; 2nd, it 
serves us au artificial retainer of moisture, which in 
most Bensons is advantageous to the growth and per¬ 
fection of fruit; 8d, it may be useful as a fertilizer; 
■lth, it assists in keeping down grass and weeds ; 5th, 
fruit well mulched Ib always clean. 
Barberry Seed,— J. B. C., Clinton Co., Iowa, asks 
for information inspecting the barberry lor hedging; 
also where the seed may lie procured, and how to 
grow the plants. 
Economy. — It 1 b truly economy to use D. B. V| 
De Land & Co.’s Best Chemical Sdleratus , because, 
for the same money you get more and better Sal- n 
eratus. Ja 
Cranberry Plants.— T. G., Kenosha, Wis., asks 
where cranberry plants or sets can be obtained. 
