and few seeds. It is fur superior to any other large 
tom ite for serving uncooked or canning. It is quite 
late in ripening, or it would be the most popular 
large tomato grown. 
Striped Tomato.—I have a very singularly striped 
tomato — yellow and red. The seed was sent me by 
some friend, but my foreman has mislaid the letter. 
It is very large and handsome, and of fair quality, 
and if tomatoes were served whole on the table 
would be quite ornamental. 
the pages before me. In this way I spend an hour 
or two delightfully, makiug.mysdf acquainted with 
much or the best literature of the day,'.besides fur¬ 
nishing ray family with plenty of nice warm stock¬ 
ings for winter wear. “ Where there is a will, there 
is a wity.” I am one who does not believe in farm¬ 
ers’ wives never getting any time to read. They 
must read, if they would be companionable to their 
husbands, the right kind of mothers, practical house¬ 
wives and good members of society. 
Now, Mr. Rural, if your wandering footsteps 
should ever lead you into the wilds of Potter, 
please call on “Alleghany,” who will be most 
happy to treat you to a fry of nice brook trout, (if 
you should come in the right season,) to say noth¬ 
ing of fresh honey, and cream biscuits and sweet 
golden butter of her own making. Alleghany. 
Pus. Rural The grape leaf from Naples, On¬ 
tario Co., N. Y., which you send me, shows on its 
underside numerous small globular excrescences 
the size of musket shot, and some of them no 
larger than the head of a pin. They are of a dull 
brownish yellow color, their surface cracked and 
uneven, whereby they have a resemblance to warts 
growing upon the leaf. I count one hundred and 
twenty-six of these excrescences upon this leaf, 
which is only two inches and a fourth broad. Each 
excrescence has a hollow cavity inside, with an 
opening thereto passing through the leaf and com¬ 
ing out upon its upper side, the mouth of the ori¬ 
fice being studded around with a dense growth of 
minute gray hairs, which appear to the eye like lit¬ 
tle white rings marked upon the surface of the leaf 
—these hairs keeping any wet from entering the 
cavity ihrough this opening. 
I have never before seen this kind of excrescences, 
except in the year 18G4, when they occurred upon 
the grape leaves quite extensively over our country. 
Specimens were sent to me that year from Yates and 
Seneca Counties in our own State, and from R. O. 
Thompson, the well-known nurseryman and florist 
of Nebraska, who also informed me that leaves thus 
diseased were numerous in his vicinity, and that 
they turned yellow and dropped from the vines pre¬ 
maturely. The first specimens which came under 
my examination were received soon after the mid¬ 
dle of July, in a box from Wm. H. Olin of Penn 
Yan, at wfiich early date the excrescences were of 
a green color, and more soft, juicy and succulent 
than they are at a later period. And in these speci¬ 
mens there were, crawling out from the wooly ori¬ 
fices and wandering slowly around upon the upper 
sides of the leaves, several minute pale yellow plant 
lice (aphides) of an oval form, with short legs and 
antennas. And on dissecting the excrescences, the 
cavity inside was found to contain a mass of minute, 
shining, oval, pale yellow eggs, intermixed with 
some of the lice newly hatched therefrom, which 
were the same as those seen upon the outside of 
the leaf. It is only when these insects are grown 
to maturity and the males have acquired wings that 
we can determine with certainty the genus to which 
they pertain. The excrescences, however, are so 
analogous to those produced in some other kinds 
of vegetation by aphides pertaining to the genus 
Pemphigus, that it is quite probable this grape in¬ 
sect will be found to belong to this genus. 
All those excrescences in vegetation which are 
caused by the punctures and stings of insects are 
” And one of the moBt 
Graham Bread.—An Excellent Recipe. —See¬ 
ing an article in your valuable paper on “ Graham 
Bread,” I take the liberty of sending for “ Young 
Housekeeper” and others, a very excellent recipe 
for making same, which the test of many years has 
proven extra. It is as followsThree qts. Graham 
flour; 1 qt. water; 1 teacup molasses; 1 do. domes¬ 
tic yeast; 2 teaspoons", soda or saleratus. Put the 
ingredients into the water, and if the mixture is not 
moist enough add a little more water. It should be 
thoroughly.' mixed, and put to rise in the pans in 
which it is to be baked. It must be a good still 
batter.—M rs. W. T. C., Hamburg, N. J. 
'^451 
Eureka — Section cut, Half-size, 
Eureka—A very good tomato, nearly smooth, and 
very productive, it is no doubt a hybrid between 
some of our common sorts and the French Tree 
Tomato, as it has a strong tree-like stem and bears 
its frnit np from the ground until it becomes nearly 
full grown. Ripe about twelve days after Early 
Smooth Red. Fruit medium size. Productive. 
■Dwarf Orangefeld—A dwarf growing plant, said 
to be better adapted for forcing than the stronger 
growing sorts. Its branches hug the ground, and 
the leaves curl. It may be classed among the earli¬ 
est sorts, and seems quite productive. Fruit small 
and nneven. 
Some of the old sorts, such as Large Smooth Red, 
the Yellow, and the more ornamental kinds, as the 
pear and plum-shaped, are too well known to need 
description. James Vick. 
To Take Rust out of Steel.— Rub well with 
sweet oil, and let the oil remain upon them for forty- 
eight hours. Then rub with leather sprinkled with 
unslaked lime, finely powdered, untilall the rust 
disappears. 
_Lemon;Drops. — E. S. B.,“Utica, N. Y., asks; 
“ W ill some one of the readers of the Rural give 
a recipe for making lemon drops ?” 
Tomato Vinegar.—F. V., Bridgeton, Cumberland 
Co., N.;J., wants to know the process of making 
tomato vinegar. 
The American Entomologist, a monthly publica¬ 
tion just commenced at St. Louis, asserts that one 
year with another the UnitedStates sufferaloss, from 
the depredations of the insect tribeB, to the amount 
of 1300,000,000 annually. This seems an enormous 
amount, but when we consider the number of ene¬ 
mies which vegetation has in the bug or insect 
family and the rapidity with which each saps the 
life of a plant or the fruit which it produces, the 
sum, large as it is, will not be deemed an extravagant 
one. Alluding to these insect depredators the En¬ 
tomologist says: — “ Turn them which way they 
will, the agriculturists and horticulturists of the 
Northern States are met by plant lice, bark lice, May 
bugs, rose bugs, weevils, cut worms, caterpillars, 
palmer worms, canker worms, sing worms and leaf 
rollers; and at periodic intervals the army worm 
marches oyer their fields like a destroying pesti¬ 
lence; while in Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota, 
and the more westerly parts of Missouri and Iowa, 
the hateful grasshopper, in particular seasons, 
swoops down with the western breeze In devouring 
swarms from the Rocky Mountains, and, like its 
close ally, the locust of Scripture and of modem 
Europe, devours every green thing from oil' the 
face of the earth.” 
The Southern States, though exempt from the 
ravages of many insects peculiar to the Eastern, 
Central and Western 8t.ates, are subjected to great 
losses from the cotton worm—a scourge which often 
OITccpo off OUU-lhir.l or more of too ©ntir© <*-rop. 
A Cheap Wat of Pickling Tomatoes by the 
Quantity.— Select ripe tomatoes with unbroken 
skins. Smooth ones are preferable. Put them into 
a weak brine, and let them remain in it for 86 or 48 
hours. Then put them into a pickle composed of 
one part of vinegar and two parts of soft water. 
These proportions are for good, strong vinegar. 
Keep them pressed under the liquor. A bad smell¬ 
ing scum frequently collects on the surface, but it 
will not hurt or taint the fruit. 
To prepare for use. —Wash, skin and sweeten to 
taste. This has been tried for years, and has been 
found reliable and satisfactory. The testimony of 
all who eat of the fruit so prepared is, “ They taste 
so much like fresh tomatoes.” 
cluster of this fruit of natural size. In January, 
1S67,1 ordered from one of the best seed-growers of 
London, England, several packages of a newtomato 
that was attracting a good deal of attention, called 
Dmrf OrangeJltUJ. At fruiting it proved to be the 
earliest to ripen of any I had—some three days or so 
before Early Smooth Red,— the fruit small, but in 
very large clusters, exceedingly sweet and of a pleas¬ 
ant flavor, so that the men employed upon my 
grounds who never before had eaten a raw tomato, 
would eat it like ripe plums. This fact first called 
my attention to its quality, and during the re¬ 
mainder of the season we never had any other 
tomato on the table served uncooked, though the 
women would complain of its small size. As it did 
not answer the description of the Orangetield I sup¬ 
posed there was some mistake, and wrote to London 
for the true name, but could get no light on the sub¬ 
ject. Thinking it well worthy of culture, I adver¬ 
tised it in my Catalogue for 1808, under the name of 
Orangifidd, butstatingthe fred, charging only about 
the price of good sorts. J« January, 1808, a new 
tomato, Sims' Mammoth 17 *vy, was advertised in 
Loudon, and from the description I judged it to be 
the one I had obtained a year before, and so it has 
proved. Those who obtained Oracgefield from me 
last spring will please remember this, and not con¬ 
sider themselves cheated, for they obtained their 
seed at one-third the price other dealers were selling 
the same under its true name. 
The tomato is now more highly prized and more 
generally cultivated in this country than any other 
garden vegetable. Long before they ripen in the 
Northern and Middle States our markets are sup¬ 
plied from the South, while forcing ia houses is 
carried on to some extent, but I believe has not 
generally proved profitable. No fruit is canned so 
extensively for winter use. The great object with 
growers in this section is to obtain large and hardy 
plants, ready to put out as soon as danger from 
frost is over—the latter part of May. Two varieties 
are generally selected, one for an early crop, to get 
into the market as early as possible, when the price 
is high, and the other for a second crop. In the 
first instance earliness is the great point, quality 
aud even size being quite secondary matters; but 
for the latter crop the fruit must be large and 
smooth, or they are worthless. The early crop is 
put out on a warm soil, aud in a sheltered position 
if possible, and the ripening Is hastened by pruning 
off all the side branches as fast as they appear. 
The side shoots will not usually perfect their fruit, 
or so late as to bo comparatively worthless, while 
they retard the ripening and lessen the size of the 
really valuable portion of the crop. Tomato seed 
for plants are usually sown in March, in boxes, in 
houses or hot-beds, and transplanted once at least. 
The more pains taken in securing old yet healthy 
growing plants the earlier the crop. 
Although we have had scores of new varieties of 
tomatoes during the past ten years, every year add- 
ingjto the list two or three varieties advertised as 
possessing wonderfully desirable qualities, If I could 
grow but one tomato it should be the old Early 
Smooth Red, or Early Apple, as it is sometimes 
called. It is almost or quite as early as any, of me¬ 
dium size, and as smooth as an apple. 
Having in cultivation about thirty varieties, many 
of which are unworthy of notice, I will give de¬ 
scriptions of a few of the most prominent: 
technically termed “ galls, 
interesting inquiries relating to these galls, is, the 
manner in which the insect causes their growth. 
Rennie, in his Insect Architecture, describes the 
mode these galls of the aphides are formed, as fol¬ 
lows :—The female selects a \ articular point upon 
the leaf where she remains stationary, nourish¬ 
ing herself by puncturing the leaf and sucking 
its juices at different points around her. And 
the sap which thereupon exudes from these 
puuctures, evaporating and thickening by contact 
with the air, sun’ouuds her with a thick fleshy 
wall of living vegetable substance, of a text¬ 
ure usually intermediate between that of the leaf 
and the wood, being harder than tne former and 
softer than the latter. And continuing to pnnctnre 
the upper edge of this wall, the flow of sap con¬ 
tinues, and the excrescence thus grows until finally 
her body becomes entirely inclosed. In this snug 
little chamber she is secure from molestation from 
the lady bugs aud numerous other enemies which 
prey upon this group of insects, while she deposits 
therein her large stock of eggs or of young lice. 
Of all insects the aphides are the most evanescent 
— one species and another suddenly multiplying, 
often so excessively as to threaten the total de¬ 
struction of the particular plant on which it sub¬ 
sists, and in a short time afterwards they are all 
vanished, the numerous enemies which prey upon 
them having gathered around and exterminated 
them, it therefore is not probable that these galls 
on the grape leaves will be a permanent malady. 
All the facts relating to them which we at present 
possess, indicate that a season will occasionally 
arrive when leaves affected in this manner will be 
common, and they will then disappear and none of 
them will be noticed again for several years. 
Three other kinds of excrescences upon grape 
leaves have fallen under my observation, which 
merit to be adverted to in this connection. 
In the fore part of June may sometimes be no¬ 
ticed growing to the edge of the grape leaf a little 
ball the size of a pea, of a red or yellow color, hav¬ 
ing a cavity inside without any opening to it, and 
containing a single plant louse of a hemispherical 
form and a pale yellow color, with short blackish 
antenme. 1 described this insect in the Transac¬ 
tions of onr State Agricultural Society for the year 
1856, page 397, naming it the Grape Leaf Louse, 
(Pemphigus Vitifolice.) 
About the middle of August I once met with sev¬ 
eral leaves of the wild grape, having numerous galls 
the size of musket shot, large and small, each one 
bulging with equal prominence upon the upper as 
on the under side of the leaf, and without any ori¬ 
fice. They were green, succulent and immature at 
the time I observed them, and no insect had then 
become developed in them, the small cavity inside 
being empty. 
Finally, the most singular of ail these grape galls 
occurred the latter part of July the. present year, 
upon a Hamburg grape in the neighborhood of 
Albany, an account of which I have recently com¬ 
municated to the Cultivator & Country Gentleman. 
In this instance the whole underside of particular 
leaves was overgrown with thorn-like excrescences, 
of a regular conical form, three times as long as 
thick, and about three-eights of an inch in length— 
“ Standing on end, 
Like quills upon the fretted porcupine.” 
These galls, doubtless, were at first green and juicy, 
but when observed they had become pale straw-col¬ 
ored, dry and of a firm texture, and inside was a cyl¬ 
indrical cavity reaching their whole length, and con¬ 
taining a small yellow footless worm or maggot, 
closely resembling the larva of the wheat midge, 
whence it is pretty certain that the insect which 
produces these galls is a small two-winged fly per¬ 
taining to the genus Ceddemyia, Asa Fitch. 
Salem, N, Y., Aug., 1868. 
Minced Pickles. — One large white cabbage, 
beans, green tomatoes, gherkins, and green peppers 
(the veins to be cut out) without regard to quantity; 
chop them up finely, and place in separate vessels; 
salt them, and let them stand twenty-four hours; 
squeeze them through a sieve; mix all together, and 
flavor with mustard seed, spice, cloves, black pepper 
and horseradish; pour on scalding vinegar; cut up 
two large onions, and throw iu, and let them stand 
twenty-four hours; then pour off the vinegar, and 
fill np with cold. 
A Nice Dish fop. Breakfast. —Take one egg and 
beat it np, and a teaspoonful of salt; pour in about 
two-thirds of a pint of water, then slice some bread, 
dip it in and fry in a little butter; serve warm. 
HOBTlOUIiTKJRiLL NOTES 
Hale's Early Peach.— At a late meeting of the Alton 
(HI) Sort. Soc’y, Hale's Early Peach was voted unsuited 
to that locality, and the advice was given, by resolution, 
not to plant it cither for market or family use. 
NEW ADYEETISEMENTS 
PEACH TREES FOR SALE—lat 
Mass, *„>0 9 l.ODO; art Clnus, *30 ^ 1,000. 
P. UOWKN, East Aurora, N. Y. 
Will the Cueculio Fly ?—A fruit grower in Hlinois 
caught sixty of the insects, painted them and transferred 
them to a neighbor’s grounds at some distance. After¬ 
wards he caught many of them on his own grounds. 
AOTV’8 CLOTHES WASIIEK.-“Woi 
f Dollar a week In any family. —A. 1*. Tribune, 
See advertisement on last page. 
QOA (Win PEAIt 8EEDIJNGS-Very Fine 
and lree from Idle tit. 120,000 Apple Seed¬ 
lings. Al30, a l'ew thousand Peiietj and crafted Apple Trees 
for the fall trade. WM. J, DJSVuE, Homer, N. Y. 
Cabbage Lice.— A. H. H., Stanley Corners, Ontario 
county, says his cabbages are covered by millions of 
small lice, which threaten destruction to the entire crop. 
He wants to know what will kill them. Perhaps he will 
find a sprinkling of snuff or finely pulverized tobacco 
beneficial. On grape vines infested with insects, the 
tobacco operates admirably. 
M audioth cluster raspberry.— 
Pronounced by Charles Downing, Andrew S. Fuller, 
and many other experienced horticulturists, who have seen 
it lu hearimr. the largest, best, and most productive Black¬ 
cap grown. I have the certificate of Purdy & Johnston that 
l have the genome Mammoth, propagated from plants, ob¬ 
tained of them. Also, Davidson’s Thornless. Doolitte, and 
other desirable Haspburries— Juenmla, Peak's Emperor, 
Golden Queen. Green Prolific and Triumph Strawberries. 
Send for Catalogue. P. C. REYNOLDS, Rochester,N. Y. 
Horticultural Exhibition at Nashville.— The Ten¬ 
nessee Horticultural Society have decided to hold their 
annual exhibition of Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables at 
Nashville on the 23d, 24th and 26th days of September. 
The premium list embraces a great variety of fruits, 
flowers and vegetables, for which flattering premiums 
are ofl'ered. 
T C. HIAXWELL iV BROTHERS, 
• C3r^33NTEATA., 3V. Y., 
Oiler to all purclmser* cd'Nnrsery Stock their large andcom- 
plete assortment of all the. leading items of t.he trade. We 
invite 
NURSERYMEN, DEALERS AND PLANTERS 
to call and examine our stock, or write for particulars, with 
stamps for Catalogues. No. l—Descriptive Fruit Catalogue. 
No. 2—Descriptive*oranmental Catalogue. No. a— Descrip¬ 
tive Catalogin' of New Plants. No.'I—Wholesale Trade List. 
973 - 4 - T. C. MAXWEI.I. v BROS.. Geneva, N. Y. 
Levered — Section cut, Jlaf-nze. 
Leverett Tomato. — While I was endeavoring to as¬ 
certain in various ways the name of the tomato above 
mentioned, Mr. IL. Lyman of Leverett, Mass., wrote 
me that be had a variety, which he thought answered 
the description of mine, and which had been ia his 
possession several years, brought originally from 
London by an English gardener. I asked for a few 
specimens, and they were kindly forwarded, They 
were larger and different from those I had, and 
seemed so promising that I obtained a quantity of 
seed. They prove immensely productive, grow large 
clusters like Sims’ Mammoth Cherry, but twice 
the size, but not so sweet und fruit - like in flavor. 
The color is a beautiful pinkish-red, like Lester’s 
Perfected. As this tomato seems to have no name 
in this country, at least, we have it labeled in onr 
grounds and entered in our books as the Leverett. 
Ripe a week after Early Smooth Red. 
N. Y. State Grape Fair.— Entries of articles for Ex¬ 
hibition may be made at auy time previous to the 7th of 
October, by letter, addressing M. Dwight Hunger, Esq , 
Canandaigua, N. Y, The entry fee, one dollar, may be 
remitted with the letter, or paid at the opening of the 
Fair. 
In our list of Fairs, the notice of the above was inad¬ 
vertently placed among those of Counties. However, it 
is a State Fair. 
C HEAPEST METHOD FOR 
Preserving Fruits, Tomatoes, See. 
The American Preserving Powders will preserve all kinds of 
Fruits,Tomatoes, Cider, Milk, Ac., Without alr-tlititlng the 
iars or cans, with or without sugar — admit* keeping fruit*. 
&c In large earthen orstone Jar*, anil using them a* wanted 
t'ro'tn time to time without fcrmentaliun being oceassioncd 
bv the expos" r>—50 V cent, cheaper than any orticr method. 
*1 worth will preserve 61 fl»s. fruit. Full directions with each 
box These Powders possess all the virtue of Spear’s Pre¬ 
serving Solution,” With new antlcepllca added and all objec¬ 
tions to Llie solution overcome. Sold by Druggists and Gro¬ 
cers. L. P. WoliKALL, Gcti‘1 Agent , 
y 73 .it 165 Chambers St„ New York. 
Early Smooth Red —Section cut, Half-size. 
Early Smooth And—Almost as early as the earliest. 
I have occasionally ripened other sorts a few days 
earlier, but could not recommend any one as cer¬ 
tainly three days earlier than this old sort. As I have 
grown from my own seed selected specimens, the 
past fifteen years, it has improved very much. Me¬ 
dium size; very smooth and productive. 
Keyes' Early Prolife — As early as Early Smooth 
Red, possibly a day or two earlier, rather small, un¬ 
even. The greater portion of the crop seems to 
ripen together. 
CATALOGUES, PAMPHLETS, &C., RECEIVED, 
Indiana Hokt. Soc’y Transactions.—W e are indebted 
to J. S. Dunlop, Esq,, for a copy of the above for 1S6S. It 
contains over one hundred pages of matter interesting 
and important to Horticulturists. 
Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits Cultivated and for 
Sale at the Mount Hope Nurseries. Illustrated. Ell- 
wanger A Barry, Rochester, N. Y. 
Catalogue of Dutch Bulbous Flower Roots. M. 
O’Keefe, Son & Co., Rocbester, N. Y. 
“Autumn List of Bulbs and other Flowering Roots. 
Henry Ferre, Springfield, Mass. 
Hints on House Painting ; or Paints and Colors, and 
How to Use Them. By J. W. Masury, New York. 
/ i R A 1* E BOX, 
(DOOLITTLE’S PATENT.) 
The neatest and most economical packing hox in use for 
Grape 9 ~shippert In flats. Any OhJld that can drive tack* can 
put them together. Circulars sent free. 
972-It AMERICAN BASKET CO., New Britain, Conn. 
‘ AND ORNAMENTAL TREES 
FOR FALL OF 1868. 
We nave the pleasure of announcing that we are prepared 
for the Fall Trade with an unusually large and well grown 
stock, cmbrnoliig 
StaiKlsinl and Dwarf Fruit Trees. 
Grape Vines, new and old sorts, Btrong open ground 
Curru'nVa, Raspberries, Blackberries, and all the 
Small Fruits. 
Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. 
Rones and Flowering Plant* of every description. 
Nurserymen, Dealers, and others, purchasing largely, will 
be dealt Vim liberally and all order*, however small, will 
receive prompt and careful attention. Parties Interested 
will to well to consult the following Catalogues, which are 
Just issued, and will be sent pre-f aid on the receipt of lOcts. 
each, for Nos. I and 2. and 5c for No.H. . „ 
No 1 Descriptive and illustrated Cataloguo of Fruits. 
No 72. Descriptive, and ninsrroted Catalogue or Ornamental 
Trees, tfsc. No. 3. Descriptive Green Huuae Plants. No. 4, 
WholcsaleCHtalo|aor^. 4J . t . ER & BARRY, 
Mount Horn Nt bsckies, Roohjcstkb, N. Y. 
Ed9. Rural :— 1 am a plain farmer’s wife, living 
far away among the wild mountains of Rotter, but, 
notwithstanding my rusticity, I can boast of that 
which but few of my neighbors can—a weekly vis¬ 
itor from your city in the form of the Rural- A 
right hearty welcome does it receive. Though I 
attend to aU of my own housework and have the 
care of two children, I always find time to read it, 
and much more beside, without neglecting a single 
household duty. 1 manage it in thi6 way:—After 
all„my work for the night is done, and the “ wee 
ones” are nicely “tucked up” in their beds, I 
take my book or paper and sit down to my table, 
lay my paper or book thereon, and while I weave 
my yarn into a stocking, I unravel the mysteries of 
Alger — Section cut. Half-size. 
Alger — The seed of this variety we obtained from 
F. R. Elliott, Esq. Its leaves are like Keyes’ in 
form, but a very dark green. Of a stronger and 
more vigorous growth than Keyes', ripe nearly as 
early, fruit much larger, and not so nneven. This 
will prove, I think, a most desirable tomato. 
Tddm — Large and smooth; abounds in water. 
Quite showy and marketable. It appears to ripen 
very slowly around the stem, and must not be used 
too soon. Ripens with Eureka. 
Sims' Mammoth Cherry ,—The engraving shows a 
LBS FOR FALL PLANTING. 
HENRY FERRE, (Ot.o 3r*m> B. K. Bus*,) 
231 llain St., Springfield, Mass. 
Autumn Catalogue, containing a complete list of ////■ 
V Tulips, Lines, NarctsM f*. Crocus, itc,, ia now ready, 
ill no. forwarded to all applicants. Address 
i! L’VDV CITff'-ll Main Kt. finrlnn It 
Plow towards Fruit Trees. — In cultivating 
orchards for peaches, apples and other standard 
fruits the last time for the season, the earth should 
be thrown to the stems of the trees. It is well to 
add six or eight inches to the depth of soil over the 
roots, as this will check late fall growth, mature the 
wood and protect the roots from frost and water. 
At the first plowing next season the order should be 
reversed so as to keep the surface nearly level. 
Maupay's Superior — Section cut, Half-size. 
Maupay's Superior — Is a large^ smooth tomato, 
well suited for market. Ripe a few days after Eu¬ 
reka aud Tilden, ijat a much better fruit than the 
latter. 
Lester's PerfecUci—le, a very solid, large, smooth 
tomato, of a fine finkish-red color, excellent flavor 
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