considering that he is dependent on these very men 
for a good price for his produce. He does not. think 
of that; he only thinks about his having a few dol¬ 
lar’s worth of produce to Eell. It will not pay him 
to go and sell it, and perhaps the dealer will cheat 
him out of it. Some of this cluse of men want ns 
to furnish them with barrels and baskets to send 
their fruit to market, and come to the depot and re¬ 
ceive their produce, and return them their money. 
And this is the class of men that are always com¬ 
plaining of us, and the more dishonest they are, 
the more suspicious of others, aud you will And 
that this class of men always prefer buying those 
baskets and boxes that contain less than they repre¬ 
sent; and if they buy barrels, will always purchase 
the smallest, and do not 611 them. They thiuk this 
is smart, and they must think the buyers are fools 
to pay as much for three pecks as they would for a 
bushel. 
A word in regard to the return of empty pack¬ 
ages. The system of guaranteeing the return of 
them is a correct one, but there is a difficulty in the 
way that cannot well be overcome, which is gen¬ 
erally overlooked by the owners. If all the roads 
would give receipts for them, then the whole diffi¬ 
culty would be removed, for the dealer could pro¬ 
duce the receipts as vouchers and be released from 
all claim. But this is not the ea.-e, excepting on a 
very few roads. Usually the dealer has simply his 
accounts to show for their return, which does not 
give satisfaction unless all have been received, and 
as a general thing the grower will persist in the 
idea that the dealer ought to pay for them because 
they are lost. Another feature in this business I 
will introduce to the attention of these grumblers, 
and that is, they want pay for the full cost ol the 
packages even when they have been used for years, 
and many of them not fit for use at all. Tet full 
cost is exacted, because they are lost. Is this fair 
or honest? I think not. I wish you would discuss 
this subject at your meetings, and do as you wish 
to be done by. Now and Then. 
Tue Grape Curb Ahhoajx—I n Switzerland one 
of the specialities is the Grape Cure. Its season is 
at the time of the vintage, say early in October, 
sometimes not until November, although those who 
are to avail themselves of the beneficial effects of 
consuming at least five pounds of ripe grapes per 
diem reach the hotels and chalets in September 
Every malady, real or imaginary, is supposed to be 
curative whenever the patient will consent to stuff 
himself from morn to night with grapes. 
We have no doubt of the value of ripe grapes as 
conducive to health, hut we likewise believe open 
air exercise in a bracing climate is requisite, aud 
perhaps an equally effective agent, Ripe fruits of 
all kinds tend to health; and it is rare that any per¬ 
son, child or adult, is affected by fevers or severe 
disease, who has opportunity, to gather and eat 
abundance of ripe fruit from the commencement of 
the strawberry season onward during the year. 
Sponge Cake— One cup sugar, 3 eggs, 1 table¬ 
spoon sweet milk, 1 of butter. Bake in thin sheets 
and spre d with jelly. 
Another way *—One cup sour cream, 1 of sugar, S 
eggs, saltflpoon of Boda and pinch of salt. Make as 
the above, or roll It up. 
Peach Butter.— To 12 lbs. of peaches, 4 lbs. sa- 
gar may be added; boil tender then rub through a 
sieve, then boil 8 hours, stirring all the time. 
Cocoanct Custard,— Grate a cocoanut, beat 
into it 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons sugar, add 1 quart milk 
and bake, or boil. Turn the above into a crust and 
it makes a good pie. 
Peppermint Drops.—O ne pound superfine sugar, 
the whites of 3 eggs beaten stiff, 2 drops oil of pep- 
permint; drop on paper, dry in oven.—M rs. 0. F. H. 
1 do not always keep read up, and it is only to-day, 
June Sth, that I have read the Rural of May 23d, 
in which I find that talented Landscape Gardener, 
Mr. Webster, has given a plan under the above 
American fruit growers are, in general, apt to 
avail themselves of any means whereby the profit 
of their business is augmented. As a class they are 
not inclined to expend much capital for the mere 
gratification of taste, or to indulge a whim or con¬ 
ceit Hence, good culture, in the most liberal 
sense of the term, will be most thoroughly applied 
to fruit crops only in cases where sufficient remu¬ 
neration therefor is in prospect. Convince them 
that a certain plan will pay, and it is likely to be 
adopted and carried out with vigor. 
The practical question, then, in dealing with the 
subject of thinning fruit is, will it be profitable? 
We have never seen a fruit grower who had any 
practical experience in the matter who did not un¬ 
hesitatingly assert that thinning pays. The author 
of ** Ten Acres Enough ” relates that an Ohio peach 
grower sold five thousand dollars worth of peaches 
from an orchard eleven acres in extent, during a 
season when the ordinary selling price of the fruit 
in the same market was twenty-five cents per 
bnsheL He received two dollars, and the result 
was due to thinning. When the peaches were the 
size of hickory nuts, he employed a large force and 
expended one hundred and eighty-five days’ work 
in picking off' the excess of fruit. The result was 
early fruit, large and fine in color, good in quality, 
large in measure, and that commanded a high price. 
The author’s own experience in thinning peaches 
was of the most profltable kind. Mr. Moody of 
Loekport, N. Y., a very successful fmit grower, 
found great profit in thinning fruit on peach trees, 
for though the crop numbered fewer specimens it 
measured as much; besides, it required less work 
to pick the fruit, and, best of all, his crop sold 
readily for a dollar and a half per bushel, when his 
neighbor, who did not thin, with difficulty got fifty 
cents. 
Apples and pears are often in need of thinning. 
There is no need to argue in favor of the bene¬ 
fits of the practice, for they are obvious. But 
the labor daunts many a zealous fruit grower. It 
should he remembered, however, that thinning 
saves labor in picking and assorting the matured 
fruit. It is stated in Thomas’ Fruit Cultnrist that 
one day’s work to fifty barrels of apples will do the 
required thinning. Of thinning the pear, M. P. 
Preserving Lemons.—J. F. P., Auburn, wants to 
know if lemons can be preserved in cans with sugar* 
and if so, the way to do it. Who can give the infor¬ 
mation, if the thing is practicable V 
Budding Lemon and Orange Trees.—“C, T.,” 
St. Johns, Mich., writes: — “ What time of the year 
should lemon and orange trees be budded, where 
can buds be obtained, and can they be sent by 
mail or express without injury ? ” 
Answer. — The budding of the orange and lemon 
is conducted on the same principles exactly as other 
trees. That is, they must be budded when the bark 
can be easily separated from the wood, and the buds 
on current season shoots are sufficiently mature. 
This will most likely be In July or August. Buds 
can be had at the nurserieB here, and can be sent by 
mail, a reasonable distance, if properly wrapped in 
oiled silk or paper to exclude air.— b. 
HEW ADVERTISEMENTS 
T HE AMERICAN FRUIT-PRESERVING 
POWDERS are warranted to preserve all kinds of fruits, 
vegetables, tomatoes, elder, milk, batter, &c., wltbont sugar, 
with or without cooking fruits, and without alr-tlghtlng the 
cans, Warranted to preserve the natural color, flavor »nd 
appearance of rrolt equal to any other method, and to do so 
at one-half the cost of time, trouble and expense. Price 50c- 
per package-, sent by mall for i'liu. And being encouraged 
that more will be Induced t.o try them upon the berries aoii 
early fruit, we will for a few weeks send by msII for 15c. ft 
small sample for trial, enough for a few pounds of fruit. Cir¬ 
culars sent free, or a manual of 83 pages, giving full descrip¬ 
tion and directions for preserving said articles, sent for 10c. 
An AGENT WANTED in each county in the United Sfcateft 
to appoint Sub-Agents and control their sale In his connty 
during the life of the patents, to years ; must be a business 
man aud able to control some capital a merchant preferred.. 
Address 
AMERICAN FRUIT-PRESERVING COMPANY, 
No. 165 Chambers St., New York: 
11ETE FT S3 ’ 
A EMIGRANT AND LAND ACENCY. 
Having been In the South much of the last two years, and 
become familiar with its soil, climate, and agricultural re¬ 
sources andcondltion,and being also famUiarwith the North 
and the West, I have opened an oillce, where Emigrants, 
both Home and Foreign, can obtain reliable Information re¬ 
garding localities, &c, m either section. 
Letters requiring answers must enclose $1 and a pre-pald 
envelop properly addressed. 
The value of securities examined, and loans negotiated. 
Persons having farms or other lands for sale will do well to 
enter them at the Agency. T. C. PETERS, 
No. 100 NaaBan St., New York. 
HOBTICTJI/TCTRAIi NOTES, 
heading, for the arrangement of road, tree, shrub 
and fiower on a plat of half an acre of land. As 
the plan — although probably a good one — did not 
please me, I have set my pencil at sketching another 
way in which to line my roads and paths and plant 
my trees, were I working the same plat of ground- 
taking the exact lines of boundary of Mr. Webster’s 
plan, and permitting the house to stand just aa he 
has placed it. Had I the vacant lot, on which to 
place the house, however, I should not have it where 
now placed, but I know we have to take houses 
where the owners have built them, and in planning 
for the lines of roads, positions «f trees, &c., &c., 
must work to them, be they ever so much out of 
true, tasteful position, 
,Mr. W. dwells somewhat on the Individuality 
necessary, and often desirable to be retained in tree 
or shrub, and which is lost by indiscriminate plant¬ 
ing without taste or knowledge in the arrangement. 
I agree with Mr. Webster that a birch, hemlock, 
Norway spruce, etc., may occasionally be so arranged 
that their beauty as individual or distinct trees will 
be prominent and always attractive, but in small 
grounds like what we are now picturing, unless we 
leave ont nearly all the shrubs and flowers, there iB 
no room for trees of their natural size to be grown, 
and once a tree 1b clipped its Individual beauty as a 
tree is lost. 
Currant Worms—Conflicting Opinions.— Dr. Chas. 
F. Adams, Rutland, Vt., claims to have found out “a 
dead shot ” for the currant worm. The charge need Is 
composed of one part of soft soap and ten of water, 
thoroughly mingled and applied to the bushes early in 
the morning by means of a common watering pot. 
The Berkshire (.Mass.) Eagle discredits the effective¬ 
ness of worm exterminators; says the pests 3re more 
numerous and destructive this year than ever, and adds: 
“Several unsuccessful experiments have been tried to 
rid the currant community of these pests. Put them into 
kerosene oil and they take a new lease of fife, pour 
strong lye upon them and their activity and destructive 
power is increased, and in short do what yon may and 
they will ‘still live.’ This is our experience with the 
currant worm.'’ 
Gas Lime Abound Treks.—A friend from Delaware 
asks if gas lime will injure peach or other fruit trees if 
applied in small quantities around the base of the trees. 
Perhaps not, if the quantities were diminutive enough, 
bnt we should prefer trying the experiment on a very 
small scale indeed. It is not a safe application to make 
to trees. 
Oranobs in Florida.— Northern men, who have spent 
much time in Florida, consider the cultivation of the 
orange as the most profitable business for a considerable 
portion of that State. The orange commences bearing at 
about the age of five years, and is considered worth one 
hundred dollars. The average yield per tree is pnt down 
at about five thousand. 
PAPAW. 
The Fapaw ,—ThiB Is a palm growing fifteen to 
twenty feet high. The stem never becomes hard, 
and is soft and pithy in the center. The leaf stem is 
from eighteen to twenty-four inches long; the leaf 
so deeply lobed as to appear merely a skeleton; 
color, light green. A few of these leaves boiled with 
a tough old fowl will make the flesh tender as a 
young chick without imparting any unpleasant 
flavor. Above, and at the foot of each leaf, appears 
a yellow blossom, and then the fruit, which is very 
like a common muskmelon. The size varies much. 
Some trees bearing fruit as large as a full sized 
melon; others not larger than a teacup. The fruit is 
hollow, the inside lined with a delicate skin, like 
very fine pink crape. The seeds hang to this by 
short stems. The leaves drop before the fruit ripen s, 
60 that there is, from the time the tree begins to 
bear, always a cluster of fruit round the stem, below 
the growing leaves, In various stages of growth, the 
lowest of course, ripest; the fruit is quite as good 
as a melon, and very like one. 
The (hrinup .—Tree twenty to twenty-five feet 
high; open top; fruit hangs in loose bunches as 
largo as large acorns, and like an acorn, withont the 
cap in shape, though more pointed. Color, light 
green; skin or shell, thick as an egg shell; inside of 
shell white; ontside, granulated. Next the shell 
and adhering to the seed, is a pink pulp as pleasant 
to the taste as a good grape; the seed is like an 
acorn hulled. 
With shrubs, however, whose beauty 
comes more from their blooms than their forms, I 
fail to see the advantage of isolating them rather 
than massing or bouqueting them. I think there is 
more beauty in a group of Deutzias of varieties 
massed and clipped to bring their blooms promi¬ 
nently In sight, than in the form of one placed im¬ 
mediately in the center blithe lawn. However, as 
all this is a matter of vasLI-and only a question as 
to which is correct — I will proceed with my little 
change of Mr. W.’s plan, Withont knowing any¬ 
thing of the character of architecture of the house 
or the elevation of the ground, no plan, however, 
can be made useful; but in thiB It will be seen my 
objections have been to the straight entrance road, 
and to the want of breadth, depth and character, lost 
by reason of so evenly dividing the lawn and placing 
shrubs and trees without unity or effect as a whole. 
Taking the original plan, I follow with A, the 
Dwelling. B, the House Yard, in the center of 
which is an oblong oval of grass. C, the Carriage 
Road leading to the dwelling. D, Main Walk lead¬ 
ing to the front door, and branching therefrom on 
an easy line to the rear door. E, Flower Garden 
or Bed, edged with Dwarf Box: —1. Bed of Ver¬ 
benas in summer, Tulip and Hyacinths Tor spring. 
2. Beds of Hybrid Perpetual Roses. 3. Peonias and 
Japan Lilies. 4. Daphne Cueorum aud Mezercon. 
5. Savin MuheniaB and Azaleas. 6. Evergreen Thorn. 
7. Judaaor Red Bud. 8. Mountain Ash. 9. Ameri¬ 
can White Spruce. 10. Lombardy Poplar. 11. Mag¬ 
nolia Acuminata. 12. nalesia Tetroptera. IS. Sta- 
pbyl'ea. 14. Japan Quince, Fonythia, and Spirea 
flore pleno on the points. 15. Weeping Cut Leaved 
Birch, or Weeping Beech. 16. The center with 
Deutzias and points with Tea Roses. 17. Tree 
Honey 8uckle9 and Persian Lilacs. 18. Wiegelas In 
variety. 19. Mountain Ash, Purple Fringe, Straw¬ 
berry Tree aud Coluteas. 20. Mahaleb Cherry. 21 . 
Pinna Pumilla. 33. English Elm. 33. Magnolia 
Glanca. 
I would have a hedge on the boundary line at 
right of the entrance road until it meet the group, 
and then again a hedge beyond the group until near 
the door step or Bide entrance. The introduction 
of a hedge in front or on the left hand boundary 
line must of course depend on the grade of my lot 
and the planting or value of views on my neighbor’s 
side. 1 am not an old country gardener, never 
stndied my subject elsewhere than in this country, 
aud probably Mr. Webster can correct, as I hope he 
will, my errors. I hope, however, he will deal 
gently with me, or he may scare me so that I shall 
not again dare to present myself as now, in good 
nature, and with a design toward the improvement 
of public taste. Addi. 
Tub Steel Blue Beetle.— S. Palmer, Galensburg, 
Pa., sends ub specimens of this insect, which, he writes, 
is doing great harm to the grapes in that vicinity. The 
only remedy is to jar them off and kill them. Their 
habits are somewhat migratory, and localities that suffer 
great damage one yeac frequently escape it the next. 
“THE VIBRATOR” 
THRESHING MACHINE, 
Patented aud Manufatured by 
NICHOLS & SHEPARD 
BATTLE CEEEK. MICH. 
POINTS OF EXCELLENCE. 
It works on a different principle from the old style 
machines. No “ canvas apron,” “heaters,” " pickers” or 
lire nHe< i- It ►sparatee the Krain by means of 
lifting flmrerB, and, It is safe to Bay, lias three times the sepa¬ 
rating and cleaning capaolty of any other kind. It w em 
phattcMllu a per/eci grain nwt.r. 
Bit. Four Bbltb mid o.src Set of Gkar are used about. the 
entire Separator, being less than one-half the machinery re¬ 
quiredby otheri). Hence It la very ear.y draft and very Clara 
ble. It iiiake.K no litterings or scatterings • has a sieve on 
mill that can take care of all the grain that comes to Ji 
and clean It flt for market, ami never requires “ poking' or 
‘‘scraping.’ The machine caDDOt. he "clogged” with any¬ 
thing that can PaSfl through a cylinder. It i* adapted to all 
kind* and conditions of grain, and Is warranted tu give bet¬ 
ter satisfaction than any other machine In present ubcv 
t,ABAH th.i Particulars, call on onr Agents, or apply to ns for 
Ulrenlat, gi vlng lull description and testimonials 
from hundreds of users. NICHOLS & SHEPARD, 
Battle Creek, Mich. 
MOWING MACHINE! SECTIONS.-SiveeU 
Grapes on the Islands.— The Ohio Farmer, whose 
editor seems to have been investigating among the grape 
islands of Lake Erie, says the promise of a fine yield of 
this fruit on Put-in-Bay Island is very flattering,—never 
more so than now. If the fruit is not injured by mildew 
the yield is likely to be heavier than ever before. 
FRUIT GROWERS AND FRUIT DEALERS 
OR, SOME PLAIN TALK WITH GRUMBLERS. 
I nAVE frequently been amused, and sometimes 
vexed, at the ignorance displayed by many fruit 
growers at their society meetings in regard to the 
difficulties that dealers have to contend with in or¬ 
der to dispose of their fruit; and I was on the 
point of saying it was singular that those who knew 
the least about it always had the most to say; but 
on second thought I will not, because if they knew 
more they would say less. Some of these men 
say that, because the fruit is theirs, and they want 
just so much for it, of course it must bring it in the 
market, and uo excuse is sufficient to induce them 
to overlook this fact, or forgive the dealers for not 
getting the price they wanted for it. Again, be¬ 
cause the fruit was started in prime order, it onght 
to reach the dealer that state; or perhaps it was 
sent in a package that the grower thinks is the best, 
rejecting advice of the dealer to the contrary, aud 
by this act does not receive as much as his neigh¬ 
bor, who is more teachable. He considers this the 
fault of the dealer, for he knows which is the best, 
and if you could hear him denounce the dealer, and 
tell how it ought to be done, you would think that 
all the wisdom of seven Solomons was concentrated 
in this one man. He can sit down and tell you 
how many hills of berries be has in his lot, how 
many berries they will average to a hill, and just 
the price they will net him in the market; and on 
realizing the net amount of his crop, if it does not 
turn out just so, why it is all the fault of the dealer. 
He has made no mistake—oh, no—he does not make 
mistakes. 
I wish some of this class of grumblers would fol¬ 
low their fruit to market and see it arrive; I think 
their conceit would soon be taken out of them. I 
have known a large consignment of choice fruit to 
be entirely ruined by the carelessness of the grower 
in sending it in packages that were not fit, because 
he had them on hand and did not want to buy 
others, thus losing almost enough to purchase good 
packages to market his whole crop. 
There is one simple fact that some growers en¬ 
tirely overlook. It is this:—Because they have the 
complete control of their fruit until they place it 
in the care of the transportation company, they 
think after that the dealer has it, but such is not 
the case. The dealer has no care of It until it ar¬ 
rives at the depot in the city, and is delivered to 
him by the company. He then receives it just as 
they deliver it, and must make the best of it, 
whether it is in good order or not. It is very little 
satisfaction to report to the company that it has 
been ruined by them; they care nothing about that 
so they are paid for their freight 
Some of these Solomons who have never been to 
market to sell their fruit, profess to know all about 
it, and can tell old dealers juist how it ought to be 
done, for they know. You cannot teach such men 
anything, To them ignorance is bliss. I well re¬ 
member two countrymen of this stamp who came 
to the city to sell berries; they made their boast 
that they would show us how to do it. And they 
did. Not a day passed hut they were surrounded 
with thieves and peddlers, who paid for all they 
could not steal, aud before the season was over they 
were played out of both money and packages, and 
went home wi?er if not richer men. Some growers 
talk about fruit dealers as if they were the greatest 
thieves in the country, and if they send them a 
consignment, consider it one of the greatest acts of 
charity that man could do for his fellow-man, not 
Time op Blossoming.— T. B. P. t Akron, O., writes un¬ 
der date of June 6th: — “ Metcalf's Early Strawberry 
opened lts first blossoms on the 1st of May; no ripe fruit 
yet. Next came Brooklyn Scarlet, Agriculturist and 
Jucnnda. I have some Mercer potatoes that show open 
blossOTis to-day.” 
W. N. Y. Horticultural Society. — The summer 
meeting of this Society will be held at the City Hall, in 
Rochester, Jane 34th, 1868, at 10 a. m, Fruits, flowers, 
&c., wifi be exhibited. Please invite your friends. 
H. Q. Warner, i Secretary. 
IfJL Barnkh & Co.. Syracuse, N. V.. will ftarnisb Sections' 
either smooth orslcfcled to repair the. knife of any Mowinir 
Machine. In ordering Kent tons send to ns.Dy mail, a diagram 
oi the section wanted, which 1* eaailv made by marking 
around an old one and through the rivet holes with a pencil, 
where this Is done wc will guarantee the Sections we send 
to lit on the bar, and we can. If requested, send Rivets Cor 
putting the Sections on. State the number of Sections wann¬ 
ed. ana we can usually eliip them on receipt of order, by ex¬ 
press, to collect on delivery. We have one uniform prion 
for sections and Rivets, varying according to size, viz : Sec¬ 
tions, 13 to 25 ctM each; Rivets. 35 cts. per pound, or for less 
quantity four Rivets for a cent. Address 
SWEET, BARNES & CO., 
96l-2teow Syracuse. N. Y. 
Promising Peach Orchards.— It is reported that the 
peach crop in Warren Co., O., is very promising. One 
orchard of 4,000 trees is estimated to yield 10,000 bushels, 
while another of 3,500 trees is equally promising. 
Eds. Rural:— The Jews were forbidden the use 
of swine’s flesh. I have thought sometimes it was 
a needless injunction, for the very sight of the ani¬ 
mal is enough to disgust the most inveterate meat- 
eater. Our best physicians and physiologists, too, 
agree that trichinae, scrofula, erysipelas, putrid sore 
throat, and a thousand other ills that flesh is heir 
to, are engendered by the use of pork. There is no 
good reason why farmers, who onght to live on the 
best the land produces, should eat so much salt 
pork—the most expensive of all meats. The same 
amount of food given to young calves or sheep, 
or even poultry, would, in my estimation, yield a 
greater amount of healthier and more palatable 
food than if fed to swine. If a few farmers in each 
neighborhood, during the summer months, would 
club together and fatten and kill in rotation small 
animals, making an equal distribution of the meat, 
we farmers’ wives would uot be obliged to resort 
so often to the pork barrel. There would be no 
difficulty in keeping the meat aDy length of time 
during the hottest weather, if put down according 
to the following directions. 1 speak what 1 do 
know, and testify what I have seen: 
Cut the meat in slices ready for frying. Pack in 
a jar, in layers, seasoning each layer with just salt 
aud pepper enough to make it palatable. Place a 
piece of writing paper over the top; cover with 
about one-half inch thickness of salt. Cover the 
jar closely; and whenever any is wanted it is ready. 
My neighbors and I have kept veal in. this way for 
several weeks. Try it and sea. 
■Venice Center, N. Y. A Farmer’s Wipe. 
1 (HUTCHINSON’S PATENT.) 
Three sizes; exceeding! low price. Grind* 
fine, fast and easy. Makes pure Wine and 
Sweet Cider. Saves all jots Fkuit. 
MORE THAN 15,000 IN USE. 
Cider Press Screws,. 
Fine thread, very powerful. 
COPPER STRIP FEED CUTTER* 
The best and cheapest self-feeding Feed (bitter in the world. 
tar- semi for illustrated Circulars to peekskii.t, plow 
WORKS. S3 Merino St., Cleveland, Ohio, or Peetsklll, N. Y. 
The- GranadUla .—A perennial vine; one of the 
passion flowers. Leaf oval and large as the hand, 
bright green. Flower, shape of half a globe and 
hollow; color, white ground closely dotted with lilac; 
perfume too powerful to have indoors; fruit, large 
as a moderate watermelon; color, light green. The 
seeds hapg thick to the inside skin—each in a trans¬ 
parent cyst filled with a juice, which is esteemed the 
best part of the fruit; a good Granadilla will give a 
tumblerful of these cysts, which, with white sugar 
and old Madeira wine, is counted a luxury. The 
flesh of the fruit makes a good jam. 
Banana . 
he champion. 
HICKOK’9 PATENT PORTABLE 
Eds. Rural : — In a late issue you had a notice of 
the blooming of a Century Plant at Troy. Thi6 
must have been of a different kind from those grow¬ 
ing In Jamaica. I have seen many in bloom,— the 
color always a beautiful yellow. A common plant 
when near full grown, will fill a circle six feet iu 
diameter. The flower stem is very like a Norway 
spruce with the limbs pruned off some ten or twelve 
feet; hut the flower stalks of the aloe do not, like 
the limbs of the spruce, grow at right angles or in¬ 
cline a little up, but are beautifully curved like the 
arms of a chandelier. The flower shaft will run up 
near twenty feet. The seeds hatch in the pods, the 
latter opening and holding water. I have seen 
scores of young plants of three or four thick leaves, 
each about an inch long, with a few black wiry roots 
laying round a dead aloe; for they bloom but once. 
In Mexico, acres of these plauts are set out; they 
take from fifteen to eighteen years to come to matu¬ 
rity ; when the fiower stem begins to shoot it is care¬ 
fully cut out, leaving a deep hollow in the center of 
the plant; the juice of the leaves and the sap that 
would have gone to the flower shaft collects in this 
hollow, and is dipped out from time to time. This 
juice is fermented, distilled and called palque. 
This Is the Mexican whisky. T. B. p. 
Fruit well knows here as to size and 
shape; but to eat a good Banana one must be near 
where they grow. When the bunch is really ripe 
the first two or three nearest the tree will crack 
their skins and show the yellow, mealy surface of 
the fruit. The tree is then cut down; for the 
Banana and Plantain bloom and hear but once; hut 
from the mass of roots there iB, If the soil and sea¬ 
sons are good, always growing a succession of trees. 
The stems are very heavy; hut if put through a mill 
and the sap pressed out would be light as straw, and 
make first rate paper. t. b. p. 
Akron, Ohio, June, 1868. 
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Horticultural Festival,— The members of the Mos¬ 
cow (Brown Co., Ohio,) Horticultural Society recently 
held a spring festival, which is reported to have been 
numerously attended and highly satisfactory. A fine dis¬ 
play of small fruits was made, consisting of strawberries, 
Cherries, gooseberries and currants, circled about by a 
fine floral bordering. After partaking of a bountiful col¬ 
lation, several gentlemen unbosomed themselves in the 
way of speeches in relation to fruits and flowers, and in 
complimentary allusions to the ladies, by whom they had 
been entertained. 
KEYSTONE CIDER AND WINE MILL 
Can up Pickled Peaches. — Peaches that have 
kept well during the winter and spring, can now be 
taken and heated thoroughly, canned and sealed, and 
kept any length of time. Pickles of any kind may 
be put in caus when first done up, and will keep 
nicer than any other way. 
Sootoh Cake,—T wo pounds sugar, 1 Vj of butter, 
l l -a of flour, 4 eggs and 2 nutmegs. 
Common Johnny Cake.—O ne cup cream, leap 
sweet milk, 2 tablespoons sugar, or not, as you 
choose; one egg, teaspoon salt, 1 of soda. 
OVER 16,000 IN USE AND APPROVED. 
Tills admirable machine Is now ready for the fruit harvest, 
of lSfiS, la made In the most perfect manner with either one 
or two tuba, aud Is well worthy the attention of all persona 
wanting such u machine. It has no superior In tho market, 
and is the only mill that will properly uriud grapes. 
FOR SALE BY ALL RESPECTABLE DEALERS, 
I aho make two sizes of superior 
PRESSES FOR BEllllIES, At*., Ac. 
If your merchant does not keep ttu m, ■ ,1 him to send for 
oneforyon.or write for oneyoaracli. tinier early—address 
the manufacturer, w. O. TIIGKOK, Harrisburg, Pa. 
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