ANNUAL MEETING, 
Indian l uddino.— One quart of mil 
spoons Indian meal, wet with molasses 
poured on scalding hot; half as much ft 
wet with cold milk; add also a little sa 
as you like. Bake two or three hours. 
Steamed Pudding.— Five cups Hour; 
milk; 1 do. raisins ; 1 do. currants—ot] 
fruit are good ; do. molasses; % do. 
pork cut up flue ; 1 teaspoon saleratus. 
hours. To he eaten with sauce—sugat 
are best. 
Cup Cake.—O ne cup butter; 2 do. s 
flour; 4 eggs ; 1 cup sour milk ; 1 teas 
tns; spice. 
It is a good rule to allow one teaspoon 
or soda to a half-pint of sour milk, and 
molasses in cake I allow the same for t 
I do for sour milk.-II. H.. North Lbnh» 
[Concluded from page 47. last number.] 
THURSDAT MORNING. 
Tub question for discussion was:—“ 4th. What is 
the best method of cultivating the apple in the or¬ 
chard ? ” 
The discussion was of a discursive nature, and 
assumed the character of question and answer. The 
cultivation of the land about the trees seemed to 
have most advocates, though several opposed this 
method. L. F. Ali-en thought trees were not gen¬ 
erally trained high enough ; ought to be six or seven 
feet from the ground when in bearing order; get 
hardy stocks and best few varieties; if not good, 
graft till they are; cultivate and lime the land; add 
chip dung,—stable manure will do. Ilogs are good 
in the orchard and so are sheep, If they do not bark 
the trees. 
J. J. Thomas would cultivate the trees till seven 
or eight years old. If the shoots make two or three 
feet yearly, the ground is rich enough ; if but a foot 
or so, manure is wauted. Don't plow when the trees 
are iu full leaf; plowing in early spring is good; saw 
a Massachusetts orchard plowed uiue inches deep 
and masses of roots turned up; the most produc¬ 
tive orchard he ever saw. * 
Moody dissented from the practice of seeding 
down orchard lands; tends to weaken the color of 
the leaves, hence injurious; plow deep when setting 
out, and cultivate, giving the roots light and air; the 
roots will go deep by this treatment. 
L. F. Allen agreed to the cultivation and use of 
swine. 
Thomas asked how many swine a large orchard 
would require? 
Mr. Allen —Don’t know; a good many. 
Yeomans asked Mr. Barry if the branches should 
be left low when set out and trimmed up as the tree 
grows ? 
Allen —To strengthen the stock? 
Mr. Barry— Yes. 
Yeomans would trim the tops as closely as the 
roots, making an equilibrium; from two to three 
buds are enough; will not he swayed about by the 
wind aud roots loosened; trees trimmed close grow 
four times as fast as those not trimmed; low hear¬ 
ing not good; trim up live or six feet from the 
ground; cultivate till trees have good tops, then 
seed down and top-dress occasionally with manure, 
ashes and lime ; plaut apples and peaches alternately 
—the latter will go out of bearing by the time the 
first get into good bearing order; the apples protect 
the peaches. 
Allen— Does not soil determine mainly the ques¬ 
tion of cultivation ? 
Mr. Yeomans — Can’t see why it should; land 
should be well draiued; seed with clover when trees 
are about 13 years old, and other grass will work in; 
mulching will be ample after this ; hill up the trees 
when setting out to keep them steady, 
Townsend planted close at first and thinned them 
out one-half when properly grown ; thick planting 
was a protection. 
Ai.lkn —Servo a forest in this way and you would 
kill the whole by exposing the roots to the sun ; 
plant thick aud you have a crop of bean poles only. 
Townsend would not cut all out at once. 
•J. G. Klinck set an orchard of natural stocks and 
grafted upon them; was the best orchard he ever 
had. » 
Barry offered a resolution complimenting Mr. Le 
Hoy’s Bornological Dictionary, which was adopted. 
Yeomans indicated thesix varieties of apples which 
were favorites with him. What he. said was gen¬ 
erally concurred in, and the following indicated as 
meeting the requirements of the question under dis¬ 
cussion, to wit:—Baldwin, It. I, Greening, Koxbury 
Rusectt, King of Tompkins County, Twenty-ounce 
Pippin, aud Northern Spy. 
The next question was taken up;—“Gth. What 
varieties of raspberries are most profitable for mar¬ 
ket purposes, and what most suitable for family 
use ?” 
Purdy —The best way to get at the matter was by 
ballot. He would take all the Black Cap family; 
hardiness was a material point. 
Thomas would like to bear further from the expe¬ 
rience of Mr. Purdy. 
Allen —Right. Let us have light before voting. 
Barry—W e want to know about the marketing 
quality. 
Purdy— The Clark is one of the best for market¬ 
ing of the Black Cap family; the Doolittle and 
Miami are also good; the Clark as early as the Doo¬ 
little ; the Philadelphia is also a valuable fruit; if 
restricted to one, would take the Miami; the Clark 
bears transportation well and is popular on account 
of its sprightly hue. 
Williams, N. J.—For hardiness, productiveness 
and good, distinct color, the Doolittle is the best; 
the Philadelphia Is a good berry, bo is the Orange; 
the Clark is good, but propagates too freely. 
Mr. Babcock—T he Franconia is hardy, fruit very 
firm and good for shipment; is productive in West¬ 
ern New York. 
Mr. Purdy did not regard snekering as a matter 
of much consequence; hoed them off as he would 
weeds, and the right canes will come; he thought 
well of mulching; it improves the quality, but a free 
use of the cultivator was probably the preferable 
mode of cultivation. 
Yeomans —The Franconia is good, if the pure 
kind is planted; more productive with him than 
any other, 
Collins asked about the Louisiana Dewberry. 
H. G. Warner had tried them for five years and 
found them worthless. 
The next question discussed was“ What varie¬ 
ties of blackberries are most profitable and best for 
family use ? ” 
A member here called on Mr. Williams of N. J. 
to respond, which he did by saying he did not wish 
to blow a trumpet on this beiry, as it was his busi¬ 
ness to cultivate and market it; he would say, how¬ 
ever, that, with him, the Kittatiuny was the best and 
most profitable; is tcu days earlier than most others 
—ahead even of the New Rochelle; plants in rows 
eight feet apart and six iu the row's; when seven or 
eight feet high pinches them back; shortens in early 
in the fall, leaving two good bearing canes in each 
hilL 
Barry —How long will such a plantation last? 
Williams— The best one I ever saw was twelve 
years old. 
Dr. Sylvester had cultivatedthe Kittatinny; has 
the advantage of hardiness; the Rochelle about the 
same, the difference, if any, in favor of the Kitta- 
tinny, it being earlier than any other. 
Purdy spoke favorably of the Lawton, also of the 
Dorchester and Early Wilson. 
Tuomas had seen fine fruit of these varieties in 
New Jersey; if you want the best of fruit, pinch 
back well. 
LARGE 1-ALE GREEN ASUTIC, 
GREEN CURLED. 
PARIS WHITE COS, 
MALTA DRUMHEAD. 
Good Light Gingerbread.— Crumble down, says 
Mrs. Hale, very small, eight ounces of butter into 
a couple pounds of flour; add and mix thoroughly 
with them, % pound good brown sugar; 2 ounce* 
powdered ginger; % ounce caraway seeds. Beat 
gradually to these 2 pounds of treacle, 3 well whisk¬ 
ed eggs aud }4 an ounce carbonate of soda dissolved 
in a small cup of warm water. Stir the whole well 
together, pour into shallow pans, put into a moder¬ 
ate oven aud bake an hour and a half. 
This plant is an universal favorite, and so easy to 
manage, so vigorous to grow, and so liberal to pro¬ 
duce that, the humblest garden may yield a family 
supply. Its season is also much longer than that of 
most vegetal ilea which must be used iu a fresh state, 
and by exercising a little skill in cultivation it may 
be had in abundance through that part of the year 
when the appetite cra ves it most. It may be sown 
in September, and the plants wintered over in cold 
frames, for the lettuce will stand 20 degrees of frost 
uninjured. Transplanted early in the spring to rich, 
warm ground, a few summer days suffice to bring it 
in condition for the table. It is also started suc¬ 
cessfully in hot-beds in March. For succession it 
may be sown until July in the open ground, aud for 
summer use, cool, moist places should he chosen. 
It is well adapted for growing amongst other crops 
as cabbage, beets aud corn. ' 
There are two classes of lettuce; the Cos, which 
has long, narrow leaves, forming an upright head, 
and the Cabbage, which has broad, spreading leaves, 
forming a round head. There are many varieties of 
each. The Cos is the mwst crisp, tender and superior 
in flavor, being excellent for family use; bnt it is not 
as hardy and well suited to our climate as the Cab¬ 
bage. The latter variety is grown by market gar¬ 
deners, and it is one of the most important of their 
crops. The curled varieties have the habit of the 
Cabbage, and arc very pretty for garnishing, but for 
eating are not as good as the plainer Borts. Our 
engravings show several good varieties,‘and the differ¬ 
ence between the Cos and Cabbage classes. 
Dry Pickle for Beef.— If you would have the 
nicest pickle for beef, or other corned meats, please 
accept the following proscription :—For 100 pounds 
take t quarts rock salt, finely pulverized; 4 pounds 
fine clean sugar; 4 ounces saltpetre, pulverized. 
Mix the whole together, without a drop of water, 
and then take your beef, piece by piece, and rub 
the mixture well into all its folds and Interstices, 
packing it down as you proceed in a sweet, dry tub 
or barrel. When all the pieces are thus treated and 
packed down, leave it to take care of itself. In a 
few days the juices of the meat will dissolve the 
ingredients, and make pickle enough to cover it. 
The meat retains all its sweetness, not adulterated 
or hardened by water.— Maine Standard. 
lug crocuses have perfected their bulbs, mi excel¬ 
lent crop of potatoes can be raised during the same 
season, and before being again used for bulbs, the 
ground has to be trenched to a considerable depth 
for new soil, the hyacinths soon becoming diseased 
if they are not well attended to in this respect. 
Thus, a very large space of ground is required for a 
blocmestrle, or rather, for the bulb farms,—for the 
bloemeetrie is only the small place where the choice 
bulbs are kept for show to purchasers or strangers; 
if a man, therefore, have u farm of twenty acres, 
only about a fourth part of it can be devoted at .one 
time to the bulbs, because of the care that must bo 
taken to keep up a proper rotation of crops. The 
bulbs arc easily pressed into the ground with the 
hand in moderate sized beds,' made up of the com¬ 
post I have described, which is the one generally 
adopted about Haarlem; with the addition of a layer 
of manure (cow dung) by way of foundation. Great 
care is taken in planting, and it is thought as well 
not, to us&a dibble, as tbo pressure of the hand bet¬ 
ter ensures the contact of the bulb with the soil, 
which is most essential in preventing the gathering 
of water around the root. There is abundance of 
moisture in the bulb gardens, as water in Holland is 
everywhere found at a slight depth below the sur¬ 
face of the ground. The bulbs being all laid down 
very carefully, in rows exactly six inches apart, are 
covered with the aforesaid soil to the depth of about 
a third of a foot, and arc then left in a neatly trim¬ 
med state, in order that nature may perform her 
part of the business. 
Ihc plants are lifted about June; but long before 
that time they have been deprived of their flower 
stems, that operation being performed just as tlie 
flowers are beginning to exhibit symptoms of decay. 
The blooms are cutoff for prudential reasons, and 
not, as may bo supposed, to strengthen the bulb; it 
is done, in short, to save the leaves of the plant, 
which might he injured if the fleshy stems of the 
flower were permitted to rot over them. Upon 
being pulled up, the bulbs, which are sprinkled over 
with a little sand, are left for a few days to air on the 
top of their beds, after which they are carefully 
picked, and the short stems and roots being re¬ 
moved, they are ready for exportation, or to be laid 
away in the store drawers till they arc again required 
for planting. There is on each farm a warehouse, in 
which the bulbs are stored; in the center of the 
building there is a large wooden erection lillud with 
shallow drawers, in which the roots, after being 
peeled, are laid away till wanted. The building has 
large windows, which, on fine days, are opened wide 
to admit the air. Some growers prefer to have two 
or three small warehouses in place of one large one, 
in case of fire or other accidents.—Oince a Week. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:—I regret disturbing 
the pleasant idea of your correspondent “ H.” that 
he was the first person who sent grapes to our mar¬ 
ket. I wish to say, that iu writing the fruit article, 
my desire was to state the truth without regard to 
personal interest, and when 1 named the 12th of 
Sept, as being the date of the first, grapes received, 
I was not as careful as 1 should have been under 
oath, in order to gratify the vanity of any one, and 
settle the above delicate question. The receipts 
mentioned in the article were my own,—but I did 
not care to mention that fact, thinking it would 
sound rather personal, and naturally fell in the same 
error that Davis & Go. did, supposing they were the 
first receipts on account of their being the first I had 
seen. “ H.” dues not state the case fairly in regard 
to the Watkins arrival. I did not state they were 
the first received from that locality, only that some 
Rebeccas were received at that time, and all grape 
growers know that they are not the earliest variety > 
but as “ H” has requested you to set him right on 
the list of arrivals, and knowing you to have a lim¬ 
ited knowledge regarding the question in debate, i 
send yon a few dates of arrivals collected from ac¬ 
tual gales, which I think will satisfy him, at the 
same time placing him rather lower in the list than 
he was before. 
On Sept. 2d, D. BuiNKERUOOFof Fishkill Landing, 
sent me some very fine Concords. Ou the Gth Iris 
brother Charles sent me some of the 6ame variety. 
On the 7th, A. Young of Marlborough, Ulster Co., 
sent Hartforda. On the 10th, C. L. Hoag ite Co. of 
Lockport, N. Y., sent some. On the 11th, a gentle¬ 
man residing at I’iermout sent a lot. On the 13th, 
Babcock & Hoag of Lockport, sent live cases of 
Delawares. These arc a few of the shipments which 
I have found, and presume there are others from 
other localities,—but I hope these will satisfy “ H.’’ 
that he did not send the first grapes to our market. 
New York, Jan. 6th, 1868. Now and Then. 
Good Plain Old-Fashioned Apple Sauce.—L et 
your stock of apples be picked over several times in 
the course of the winter, and all the defective ones 
taken out. Let the good parts of these be pared, and 
if not used for plea be made into apple sauce. Boll 
it in a preserving kettle, and to a pailful of cut ap¬ 
ples put one sliced lemon. After the apples are 
tender, add a pint bowlof brown sugar, and boil them 
gently fifteen minutes longer. Toward spring, when 
apples become tasteless, a teaspoonful of tartaric 
acid, dissolved in a, little water, should be added to 
this quantity of apple. 
I ickle FOR Vegetables* —Six quarts of the very 
best vinegar; 1 pound salt; % do. ginger; 1 ounce 
mace; % pound shalots; 1 tablespoon cayenne pep¬ 
per; 2 ounces white peppercorns; 2 do. mustard 
seed. Boil all these Ingredient® well together, and 
when cold put la a jar. You may add what green 
vegetables or fruit you like, provided they are fresh. 
They may bo merely wiped to free them from dust. 
Aunt Charlotte's Biscuit. —Take 2 lbs. com¬ 
mon bread dough, after it has become light, and 
knead into it an ounce of crumbled butter to the 
pound. Let it stand half an hour, roll it out and 
cut into biscuit, pricking them well, aud bake 15 
minutes in a tolerably quick oven. 
F.shknce of Celery.— This Is prepared by soak¬ 
ing for a fortnight a half ounce of the seeds of celery 
in a quarter pint of brandy. A few drops will flavor 
a pint of soup or broth, equal to a head of celery. 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 
OROSAGE *EKI> Warrant«*« 
Address w, u. MANN, annum 
jVTtJU^ERY FOR SALE.- 
-La lor :i man with a small capital 
Geneva. N. Y. 
y RARE CHANCE 
Address LOCK BOX 58, 
W3-3teo. 
Editor Rural :— I saw in the Rural, for the week 
ending the 18th lilt., an inquiry for a remedy for 
grnbB in Peach Trees. I should say lime, put liber¬ 
ally and close around the body of the tree. My ex¬ 
perience with two that stood in my strawberry bed 
was, that both were dead to appearance; one I puff¬ 
ed up, the other I could not pull up, but left it, and 
put on slaked lime plentifully between the rows of 
strawberry plants; then a liberal coating of Btrong 
wood asbes on top of that; then a coating of tan 
bark to keep the ground moist. The result was that 
the remaining peach tree got a benefit from the lime 
aud ashes, aud it soon started a rapid growth, and 
there was no sign of the white grub troubling the 
strawberry plants, as they did my neighbors’ within 
flfteeu feet of mine. The following year my peach 
tree started well and blossomed full, and soon the 
leaves curled up again and the blossoms dried. On 
examination the grabs were again found under the 
bark. I then dug them out with a pocket knife and 
applied soft soap, (having no lime at hand,) and it 
again started and did well the remainder of the sea¬ 
son. I intend to forestall the grubs this spring with 
lime, aud see if they cannot be kept off and not al¬ 
lowed to deprive the tree of its sap this year. 
Lockport, N. Y. Here and Tubus, 
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HORTICULTURAL NOTES, 
Planting Peach Pits and Chestnuts.— (H. n. B., 
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.) Peach pits may he planted in the 
spring, without being frosted, by cracking them. But the 
frost will crack them a great deal cheaper than you can, 
and there is yet time enongh to let it. It is of little use 
to plant chestnuts if they have become dry; for that rea¬ 
son autumn is the best time to plant them. 
Lake Shore Graph Growers' Association,— The an¬ 
nual meeting of this Association will be held at Cleveland 
i eb. 10th and 20th, 1368. Essays, discussions, and an ex¬ 
hibition of fruit, boxes, <&c., may be expected. Ail per¬ 
sons interested are invited to attend, aud return passes 
will he given over the Lake 81iore line of roads, extending 
from Toledo and Sandusky to Erie. 
Osagb Orangk Seed.—A reply to numerous inquiries 
respecting the Osage seed will be found in the advertise¬ 
ment of W. II. Mann In our columns. Mr. M. will doubt¬ 
less give all needful information on culture, Ac., if applied 
to by letter. 
Nature has provided liberally in Holland for the 
cultivation of the hyacinth and other bulbous and 
tuberous rooted flowers, in giving the gardeners a 
fine soil; but they have, tie they think, improved on 
nature by an earth mixture of their own, according 
to the following recipe: Two parts of gray 6aud, two 
parts of well-rotted cow dung, one part of equally 
well-rotted tanner’s bark, and one portion of decayed 
tree leaves. These ingredients must be well mixed, 
and lie exposed to wind and weather for a period of 
twelve months before being used, during which time 
the mixture requires to be frequently turned to ren¬ 
der it perfect The first point that I learned, in 
reference to bulb gardening, as practiced at Haar¬ 
lem, was, that successful roots were not grown in c 
season, but required six or seven years’ careful 
watching and nursing to bring them to perfection; 
aud, in growing from the seed, these persevering 
Dutch florists are well satisfied if they obtain half 
a score of profitable plants out of every thousand 
seedlings. 
One of the chief rales of bulb cultivation is a strict 
rotation of crops. First, there is a year of hyacinths, 
then come crocuses, while in the following year 
there, may be tulips. After these varied crops of 
bulbs have been taken off the grouud, it must bo 
Occupied for a year or two by culinary vegetables, as 
beans or peas, aud sometimes, after the early fiower- 
CATALOGUES, PAMPHLETS, &c., RECEIVED. 
Wkbster's Plans for Laying Out and Beantifying Gar¬ 
dens, and Catalognc of Shrubs, Roses, Ornamental Plants 
trad Seeds, This beautiftilly illustrated Catalogno will 
especially interest those desirous of embellishing their 
homes by judicious selections of flowers, and tasteful 
arrangement of them in beds and other positions. Its 
articles and Illustrations on Landscape Gardening are 
valuable. It is the only Catalogue we have Been which 
treats at length on these subjects, and our readers will 
find it a good Investment. Address William Wkrstkb 
Rochester, N Y, 
A circular from the Chicago Horticultural Society in- 
ronnB ns that the Spring Exhibition wfil bo held in May. 
Essays on pertinent subjects will be delivered monthly at 
the regular meetings In Caledonian HaU, Chicago. 
Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural So¬ 
ciety for 1867; a well got up pamphlet of nearly a hundred 
pages, flUed wtih reports, letters and addresses. 
Catalogue of Moorestown Small Fruit and Plant Farm 
for the spring of 1868. Address T. C. Andrews, Moores¬ 
town, Bnrlingtou Co., N. J. 
Price List of Small Fruit Plants and Seed Potatoes. 
Grown and for sale by E. Williams, Montclair, N. J. 
FOR NEW VEGETABLES, FLOWERS FRITTT 
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pages, beautifully Illustrated; will be niailed to all whS 
close a j cent stump. Address HENRY' \ DREED ciJJu 
Grower, 7H Cites taut St., PhUadclpWa, Pa. uU2t l 
Parsnips in Winter.—A correspondent writes ns that 
finding it desirablo to keep parsnips so as to bo ready of 
access in winter time, and having failed in keeping them 
in good condition in the cellar, though packed in sand 
and boxes, he hit upon the plan last fall of keeping them 
In barrels sunk about one third of their length in the 
ground, with some litter thrown around them, and a cov¬ 
ering to keep out the rain and mice, but not the frost. 
February itb they were frozen hard, but when cooked the 
flavor was excellent, resembling that we find in those dug 
from the ground in the spring. It would probably injure 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS 
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