LATE AUTUMN WORK. 
The vegetable garden should be put in perfect 
order for next spring’s operations. Clear away the 
rubbish’ throw the soil, if heavy and rich, into 
ridges, secure thorough drainage, and make a large 
compost heap for the future. There is no better 
fertilizer for the garden than sod piled and mixed 
with woods mold, barn-yard manure with a sprink¬ 
ling of plaster, and permitted to decay until all seeds 
of weeds are destroyed. Light garden soil may he 
benefited by an admixture of clay, but heavy soils, 
which are of more frequent occurrence, may be 
greatly improved by the addition of pure sand or a 
light loam. Early vegetables are a great desidera¬ 
tum, and these may be grown on the south side of a 
tight board fence or stone wall. Whitewash should 
be applied to the fence and the soil at its base made 
rich, dry and porous. Cut off the sweep of chilling 
winds, and reflect the sun’s rays to the soil, and the 
climate is thereby modified several degrees. Cover 
asparagus beds with litter to be raked off in the 
spring, and prepare the ground for the very earliest 
sown seeds, so that the rake will quickly put in 
order to receive them. 
The strawberry bed should be cleaned andmnlehed. 
By all means protect the crowns of the plants 
through the winter, but do not forget to give them 
air early in the spring. Berry bushes should he cut 
hack, the old wood removed, and the tender varie¬ 
ties carefully beut to the earth over a furrow or 
ridge thrown against one side, and then slightly 
covered. We are convinced that heavy crops of 
blackberries and raspberries might often be gath¬ 
ered in the place of light ones from boshes that 
appear to have wintered well, if protection were 
afforded dnring the cold weather. A plant is some¬ 
thing like an animal; it will sometimes exist with¬ 
out shelter and appear quite hardy, but give it 
adequate winter protection and it becomes profita¬ 
ble. Dwarf trees and young standards should be 
guarded against the depredations of mice and rab¬ 
bits. Timely care now may spare hitter regret next 
year. Clear away dead grass or litter, if any be 
there, from the collars of the trees, and surround 
them with some protection which thevemiin can¬ 
not penetrate. Lath fastened together with wire, 
tarred pasteboard or thick paper will generally be 
convenient for the orchardist. 
STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 
What constitutes a paying crop of strawberries? 
Can they he raised for 8 cents per qnart? Have 
they ceased to be a profitable crop in Western New 
York? 1 b it required to raise 200 bushels per acre 
in order to make it a paying crop? These ques¬ 
tions I ask from reading of different articles, discus¬ 
sions, Ac. In answer to Ihc first and last questions 
I claim that in rao6t localities 75 to 100 bushels per 
acre at as low prices as 6 cents per quart is a paying 
crop. Yes, as profitable as the best crop of pota¬ 
toes. But I propose to try and show wherein they 
can he made a very profitable crop, and I speak 
from an experience in strawberry culture of nearly 
twenty years. Before proceeding with this subject 
I would say “ circumstances alter cases.” Locality 
bas very much to do with it. It makes a vast deal of 
difference whether we grow them on soil near Roch¬ 
ester that is worth 500 to 1,000 dollars per acre with 
other expenses in proportion, or whether we grow 
them on soil worth from 80 to 150 dollars per acre 
near the smaller villages, with expenses in propor¬ 
tion. We certainly should hardly expect to make 
corn or potatoes a paying crop in the first named 
locality, while they c lo prove profitable in the latter. 
First. Be sure and set genuine plants. To illus¬ 
trate the force and importance of this I would state 
that I purchased, ayearagolastapriug, 20,000 “ Wil¬ 
sons,” not having brought down from our grounds 
west as many as I concluded to set, after looking 
over the ground. I found (alter they commenced 
to grow) one-half to two-thirds of these plants pur¬ 
chased spurious — comprising Crimson Cone, Early 
Scarlet, McAvoys, and I don’t know what all. Had 
they been pure Wilsons, judging from adjoining 
plantations, we should have harvested from them 
this year, over two hundred bushels to the acre, and 
obtained, on an average , 12 cents per quart. As it 
was, we got about 85 to 40 bushels to the acre; and, 
being so badly mixed, they bad a very bad, unat¬ 
tractive and inferior appearance, so that we obtained 
for the same, on an average, (i cents per quart, Any 
person can see at a glance what our loss was on this 
one plat by having such a lot of plants. While in 
New York city, when the first strawberries were 
coming in from South Jersey, last spring, I could 
but notice the difference in price between pure, un¬ 
mixed strawberries of any sort, aud those that were 
mixed up with small, inferior kinds. This was par¬ 
ticularly noticeable in the Wilson. A large share of 
this sort were mixed badly, and were selling from 
retail stands for 20 to 25 cents, while the pure Wil¬ 
sons were selling for 50 cents per quart. This was 
early in the season. Now, with such plain facts, 
any person must see the great importance of having 
their plantations pure. It costs no more to take 
the proper care ot such, while double the price can 
he realized for the crop, aud with many varieties 
double the crop obtained. 
Second. Have the ground well manured, well plowed 
and plants todl set. Set plants not over 9 to 10 
inches apart in the row. This is a very important 
point. Many think it economy to set as few plants 
as possible on au acre and set their plants from 15 to 
20 inches apart iu the row. We would have every 
inch of ground count. To do this set them so 
closely that after they are through running in the 
fall, the rows (providing the “ matted row ” system 
is practiced) will be entirely filled up to a width o( 
18 inches to 2 feet, and not have long, vacant gaps 
in the row here and there: or, if grown in hills, by 
being thus closely set, they “ stool out,” so as to 
makealmost a continuous “ stool ” the whole length 
of the row. 
Third. Keep the plantation looking like a u straw- 
berry patch ,” and not have it resemble a “goose 
pasture.” Keep the cultivator going and “elbow 
grecse running,” and my word for it yon will get 
two hundred bushels per acre, and average at least for 
the entire crop 10 cents per quart, or a round §000 
per acre. You may deduct from this every possible 
expense, including cost of plants, (providing you 
have to buy,) and you will have a net profit of at 
least §400 per acre. I was told by a very intelli¬ 
gent and practical fruit grower aud trucker, who is 
doing business near Rochester, on land worth at 
least §500 per acre, that liis strawberry crop bad 
proved very remunerative the past season, not¬ 
withstanding prices had been quite low. If this 
is the ease why should they not prove very profit¬ 
able on land out from the city that costs only one 
quarter as much ? 
Another very important thing to be considered is, 
that we do not always have such a universal large 
f 
If | 
T £31 E o I_j IFb 3S1 p p L E. 
Our engravings figure a new seedling apple, 
specimens of which we received from J. W. Clark, 
Esq., Naples, Ontario Co., N. Y. The variety was 
found in a number of seedliDg trees purchased by 
Mr. C. in the spring of 1857 to replace some niice- 
girdled ones in a young orchard. One of these seed¬ 
lings, not being budded or grafted, produced the 
fruit to which the above name bas been given. 
The tree is a strong, vigorous grower, forming a 
bread, open, spreading top. Young wood dark red 
brown, quite downy or moldy. Leaf thick, broad, 
crop. Some seasons they will prove a small crop in 
one locality, and a large one in another, and vice 
versa. When this is the case those having a full 
crop reap a rich reward. As to varieties, what 
may prove profitable, in one locality may not in 
another; or some sorts rnayyield good crops one 
year and others not. For instance, we have had 
the hulk of our Downer’s Prolific, French and Jenny 
Lind, at Sonth Bend, Indiana, nearly all marketed 
for the first high price, while a severe drouth that 
would set in early would badly damage the bnlk of 
the Wilson crop, I remember distinctly one season 
of selling alarge quantity of Jenny Lind and Downer’s 
in the Chicago market for ?6 to -$9 per bushel, while 
the bulk of the Wilson crop became so small from 
the effect of the drouth that prices run down on them 
to $3 to §4 per bnshel, and the crop very light. 
Again, a variety that may do well on one soil may 
prove a failure on another. The Triomph de Gand 
may succeed well in the vicinity of Rochester and 
Pittsburg, and yet prove a perfect failure on the 
sandy soils of South Bond, Lad,, or those of New 
Jersey, and the French and Downer’s Prolific vice 
versa. We had do finer strawberries on our grounds 
this season here than the French, and yet in locali¬ 
ties around Rochester, and in Massachusetts it is 
considered of no value. So much for locality or the 
judgment of any persons who merely Judge from 
their knowledge of just the locality they are in. 
The proper course for any persons, if they are in¬ 
tending to set out strawberries for market purposes, 
is to acquaint themselves with varieties that have 
proved well in their locality or on their kind of soil 
and go accordingly. In closing, I would say that so 
long as we can get 8 cents per quart for strawber¬ 
ries, we shall grow them and claim that wc can 
realize more out of them than the best crop of pota¬ 
toes we have ever raised, even at §1.50 per bnshel. 
Palmyra, N. Y. A. M. Purdt. 
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APPLES IN WISCONSIN. 
Eds. Rural:— I have just been reading L. L. 
Fairchild’s letter upon “Apples in Wisconsin” iu 
the Rural New-Yorker of Nov. 7th. His list of 
“ the toughest and hardiest of trees ” — (apple trees) 
I think liable to lead one astray. He includes in said 
list, the Northern Spy and Wine Sap. During a 
time when I regarded the Northern Spy suitable for 
this climate I probably delivered 10,000 of that va¬ 
riety alone in this State, and it is now a question in 
my mind, if 100 of that 10,000 ever grew Into good 
healthy bearing condition, Were the Northern Spy, 
Wine Sap, and other varieties equally as hardy, suit¬ 
able for genera] culture in Wisconsin, I probably 
should be engaged iu the sale of fruit trees in this 
State to-day. But I do not so regard them; nor 
would I feel safe to warrant but one of the varieties 
by him therein named, and that one the Duchesse of 
Oldenburg. The most of the rest named in his list, 
I think, can be grown here with profit, but not with 
certainty. 1 have seen the best of them—excepting 
the first named — go by the board from injuries sus¬ 
tained during some of our severest winters. 
Appleton, Wis. Z. F. Fairbanks. 
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ORANGE CULTURE IN FLORIDA.-No I. 
THE WILD ORANGE GROVES. 
Millions of acres of the best land in Florida are 
covered with grove6 of the wild orange. How these 
groves originated is a mooted question. Some sup¬ 
pose that the tree is indigenous on the peninsula; 
hut as no mention is made of it by the narrators of 
the early Spanish exploring expeditions, and as it is 
a matter of history that the orange was introduced 
by the first colonists nearly three hundred years ago, 
it seems probable that it is of foreign origin, especial¬ 
ly as the fruit is known to deteriorate very rapidly 
and to return readily to its natural wildness, seed¬ 
lings of the best varieties generally proving worth¬ 
less. Be their origin what it may, the present 
existence of these groves has au important bearing 
upon the prosperity of the State, as we shall sec. 
The wild orange of Florida Is of two kinds—the 
sour and the bitter sweet. Neither of them is 
palatable. The tree is very beautiful—far more 
beautiful than the cultivated varieties—and exceed¬ 
ingly productive. A grove loaded with its golden 
fruit is a sight one may afford to travel hundreds of 
miles to see. 
ORANGE CULTURE AT ST. AUGUSTINE. 
The sweet orange has been cultivated in Florida 
almost from the first settlement of the country by 
the Spaniards, in the sixteenth century, but bas not 
till lately become aprominent interest. The earliest 
groves were at St. Augustine—our “ Ancient City,” 
—and constituted for a long time almost the only 
source of income possessed by the inhabitants. In 
February, 1835, the “great frost,” as it is called, 
killed every tree to the roots; and not only every 
orange-tree but every fruit-tree of all kinds in East 
Floridanorth of the twenty-ninth parallel of latitude. 
Groves subsequently planted at St Angustiue and 
eleswhero were attacked by the scale insect (Coccus 
Hesperidum ,) and most of them rendered worthless. 
REVIVAL OF ORANGE CULTURE. 
Within the last ten years there has been a revival 
of the interest in orange culture. The scale insect 
roundish, slightly oval, pointed, coarsely serrated. 
Fruit medium, or above, in size, globular, slightly ob¬ 
late in some specimens. Color a rich pale yellow 
ground, mostly overspread, striped and Bplashed 
with two shades of rich, deep, clear red; the red 
deepest at the stem end. Scattering, irregular 
shaped light russet dots and traces, with an occa¬ 
sional raised russet patch. Stem medium in length 
and size. Cavity open, deep, acute, with five or 
more lines, giving almost appearance, as if furrowed. 
Calyx small, closed with erect, reflexed, narrow 
seemed to have ceased it6 ravages. The groves 
planted since 1858 have where any tolerable degree 
of attention in the way of cultivation has been given 
them, flourished finely. In fact, some of them are 
now bearing heavily under almost total neglect. 
It is not tine, as some have asserted, that the scale 
insect has disappeared. It is still present in many 
if not in all groves, but it seems no longer to he 
capable of its former destructiveness. At any rate, 
trees planted in suitable soil and properly cultivated 
do not now suffer in any appreciable degree from its 
presence, and some of tbe old groves fomerly rav¬ 
aged by it and rendered unproductive, are now again 
in bearing. 
SOME BEARING GROVES. 
Groves of any considerable extent, old enough to 
be in full bearing, are far from numerous. Three or 
four on the Gulf coast, and as many in East Florida, 
are all that I have any account of. That of Mr. 
Dnmmet, about thirty miles south of New Smyrna, 
is said to be tbe most flourishing and valuable one 
in the State. The largest one on the Gulf coast is at 
Fort Myers, and consists of between four and five 
hundred orange, lemon, and lime trees. It might 
be made very valuable, but is now in a neglected 
condition. At Sarasota Bay, a Dr. Snell has a grove 
consisting of three hundred oran ge and upward of a 
hundred fine lemon trees. A gentleman who visited 
it last winter says that the lemon trees were bent to 
the ground with their immense loads of fruit, and 
that the orange trees, though not so productive, had 
a good crop. These trees have had no care for the last 
five years, and my informant pronounces the grove 
“a standing monument of the occupant’s laziness 
and stupidity.” Dr. Snell docs not reside on the 
place. 
NEWLY' PLANTED GROVES. 
The young groves, planted since the war. arc 
numerous, and some of them extensive. They are 
generally receiving some cultivation, and wherethoy 
were properly planted, are flourishing finely. In 
many cases, however, the planters have manifested 
the most utter ignorance of the first principles of 
horticulture, and if they succeed in producing good 
crops, the result will not be due to any skill in the 
cultivators, but to the astonishing vitality and 
recuperative energy of the noble tree they are so 
shamefully abusing. 
PROPAGATION AND CULTURE. 
The culti vation of the orange is as simple and easy 
a thing as the cultivation of the peach, and both 
thrive in Florida with very slight attention, but 
I would richly repay more care than they arc now 
receiving. 
The orange will succeed on any soil in Florida, but 
on the poorest some manure is required. Good high 
hammock land, however, is best for it. Such land 
requires no preparation, previous to planting, except 
clearing and digging the holes. The plowing may 
be done afterward, and any low-growing crop plant¬ 
ed betweeu the rows. 
Several methods of establishing orange groves or 
orchards have been practiced. Some have procured 
young trees of the variety desired from a nursery. 
’Ibis is a very satisfactory way where but few trees 
are wanted, and tbe planter can afford to pay a very 
high price for them; but oraDge miseries are scarce, 
and the trees far too high priced for extensive plant¬ 
ing. Others have commenced by sowing the seeds 
of the wild fruit and budding the stocks thus pro¬ 
cured with the sweet orange, becoming in this way 
their own nurserymen. This is a judicious course, 
as the nursing and bidding of the wild stocks are 
very simple and easy operations; 1 am told that in 
some cases the seeds of the sweet orange have been 
sowed, and the trees thus procured transplanted 
without budding. Such trees will no doubt one of 
these days astonish as well as disappoint their owners 
by producing a crop of worthless fruit. The course 
now most commonly pursued in establishing an 
orange grove is to procure from some neighboring 
hammock, where they abound, a sulflcient number 
of wild orange-trees of suitable size and transplant 
them into the ground prepared for the new orchard. 
These wild stocks may be from two to three inches 
in diameter. They should be carefully dug up 
(preserving as many roots uninjured as possible,) cut 
off to within two or three feetoi the collar, and then 
planted in large but shallow holes previously pre¬ 
pared. Twenty feet apart each way, giving 108 trees 
to the acre, is about the right distance, though some 
are plauting much closer. The wild stocks thus 
planted will soon put out shoots in abundance, all 
but two or three of which should be Kept carefully 
rubbed off. Those left may be budded as soon as of 
sufficient size (which will be within three months) 
with the variety chosen for cultivation. Some of 
these budded trees will bear in eighteen months from 
tbe time of budding, and all, if properly cared for iu 
the mean time, will be iu bearing the third year. 
The transplanting of the wild stocks may be per¬ 
formed at any time, but the winter is generally 
chosen for the operation. Some, however, prefer 
August to any other month, and a gentleman who 
has had considerable experience informs me that he 
has transplanted orange-trees in that mouth when 
loaded with fruit, and that they have matured their 
crop in their new location and produced another the 
next year, as If nothing had happened to them. 
But the plan by means of which a bearing grove of 
pointed segments. Basin narrow, open, abrupt 
slightly furrowed. Flesh yellowish white, coarse 
grained, breaking, partially crisp, moderately juicy. 
Flavor pleasant, mild sub acid. Core medium. 
Seeds light brown. Season October, November. 
It is not equal to Ohio Nonpariel, either in size or 
quality, and not snperior in beauty of appearance. 
Judging from the leaf and wood received is similar 
in habit of tree. It should have some superior 
claim, either as a bearer or for hardiness, to claim a 
high position. 
the sweet orange can be secured in the shortest pos¬ 
sible time, is to purchase land with a good wild 
grove upon it, and selecting suitable trees at the 
right distauce apart., dig up and remove all the others 
and graft those left where they stand. These trees 
will commence bearing the next year, and will soon 
be capable of producing a heavy crop of fruit.—At 
H. Jacques , in Horticulturist. 
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HORTICDXTITRAL GLEANINGS. 
Venerable Oaks.— H. W. Sargent describes among 
other old trees which he saw in England, one at the 
Duke of Portland’s, at Wclbock, which is 100 feet 
high and 40 feet in circumference (13 feet in diame¬ 
ter) and another which had an opening or arch in 
it, through which a carriage might be driven, the 
height of the arch being 10 feet. It iB supposed to 
be nearly 1,000 years old. 
Heeding Wounds on Fruit Trees. —A correspondent 
of the Country Gentleman recommends the follow¬ 
ing mode ot treating the wounds made on fruit 
trees when large limbs are taken off. Cut off the 
limb early in spring smooth with the body—the 
new wood forms a ridge that year around the cut. 
The following spring lay the wood bare on this 
ridge, which makes the wood and bark push for¬ 
ward over tbe wound r.he second season. The pro¬ 
cess is repeated until the whole is covered. 
Cultivating Orchards. —Tbe Maine Farmer fur¬ 
nishes an example of the benefits resulting from 
cultivating apple orchards in that of W, Lombard 
of Augusta, who has some 170 trees, mostly old, 
well cultivated, the soil stirred about as far as the 
limbs extend, and the ground mulched with refuse 
straw, potato tops, corn stalks, &c. One Tallman 
Sweet tree yielded six barrels, which at §5 per bar¬ 
rel brought §30. The whole orchard in one year 
yielded §013 in fruit sold; and the present, not a 
bearing year, §200. 
Labels for Trees —At a meeting of the Institute of 
Technology, held in Boston, Hon. M. P. Wilder 
made a statement relative to a new method of label¬ 
ling trees, accidentally discovered by him. In the 
use of zinc labels, which were the most durable in 
character, an indelible ink was used ; but not hav¬ 
ing the ink at hand on one occasion, he wrote upon 
the zinc with a lead pencil. This writing, although 
it could not be rubbed off when first made, grew 
more distinct aud durable with age, and, atter sev¬ 
eral years, could not be erased except by scraping. 
Dwarf Apple Trees. —A dwarf apple tree covered 
with a profusion of pink or rosy blossoms is as 
handsome a sight as can be, and in autumn when 
the fruit is ripe the tree is highly ornamental along 
with being useful. Dwarf apples may be placed 
six or seven feet apart each way, so that a consider¬ 
able mimber of them will stand on a small piece of 
ground. .11 suitable varieties are selected a succes¬ 
sion of fruit may be kept up throughout the apple 
season. The Early Harvest and Sweet Bough do 
well as dwarfs, and nothing can be more beautiful 
than a Red Astrachan apple on a Paradise Stock 
when it is laden with its scarlet and grecnish-yeHow 
fruit, which seems very large in proportion to the 
size of the tree. 
Hatural Cultivation.— He that cultivates well and 
keeps the soil stirred and loose in his orchard, has 
his ground nearer a state of nature thaD the slovenly 
man who pretends to take nature for his guide, and 
allows the weeds and the grass to grow in his 
orchard; allows the sun to bake and the rains to 
beat tbe soil as hard as a country road. In a nat¬ 
ural state, trees and plants get natural cultivation so 
to speak; that is to say, they are close together and 
their leaves and branches shade the ground so the 
sun cannot bake it, tbe leaves and branches also 
break the force of tbe rain and prevent the ground 
lrom being beaten down; but, more than all, the 
yearly crops of leaves and decaying branches fall to 
the ground and remain there, forming a natural 
mulch, which keeps the ground loose aud porous, 
and answers a better purpose than all the cultivation 
given orchards by uine-tenths of fruit-growers. 
Hogs, Curculio and Peach Orchards. —The Messrs. 
Winters of Du Quoin have kept hogs in their peach 
orchards. They pick up all the fallen, fruit. The 
second year after they adopted this idea but little 
comparatively of the fruit was stung, and for the 
past three years their loss from curculio has been 
of no consequence. Tbe same plan has beeu 
adopted by A. Mitchell, Esq., with the most satis- 
fhetory results. Where it is not practicable to keep 
hogs in an orchard every particle of fallen fruit 
should be picked up and fed to hogs, or otherwise 
disposed of, so that the grub in It cannot live. The 
stung fruit should never be allowed to lie ou the 
ground during the night, for the grub leaves the 
diseased fruit only at night, and burrows in the 
ground. If every fruit-grower would use these 
suggestions, and endeavor to eradicate this pest, its 
ravages would cease or soon become comparatively 
light. 
Scotch Treatment of Currant Worms. —The currant 
caterpillar was doubtless introduced into this coun¬ 
try from Great Britain, through the medium of im* 
I ported nursery stock. In that country it has long 
been destructive to gooseberry and currant bushes, 
nevertheless flue and uniform crops of these fruits 
are grown there. In speaking of the pest during 
the past season the Scottish Farmer says“ Helle¬ 
bore powder, lime and soot have also been upplied; 
but nothing so effectually destroys the vermin as 
soot, which is, independently, the cheapest cure 
and the most certain preventive. When dusted on 
the bushes after a slight shower has fallen, or after 
the leaves have been wetted, the vermin will soon 
drop off the leaves and perish. The application of 
a sprinkling of dry soot round the roots or bushes, 
when early digging operations are being proceeded 
with in spring, will act most successfully in prevent¬ 
ing their appearance; and thiB, resorted to in suc¬ 
cessive seasons, will entirely extirpate the pests.” 
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Fruit and Vegetable Markets. 
Thb following are tbe quotations of Fruits and Vegetables 
In tbe New York market for the week ending the 14th inBt: 
Vbgstablbb.—R eceipts of Potatoes are quite heavy. The 
sign of rot in sorue sections has forced a large stock on the 
market, and trade is dull and prlceB lower 1 b consequence. 
Monitor, N bbl. $1 75 @ 2 00 
Buckeyes, V bbl. i 75 @ a on 
Peach Blows. V bbl. 2 75 @ 8 on 
Mercers. TO bbl. 2 15 a 3 50 
Prince Alberts, 1? bbl.. 2 75 a 8 CO 
Jackson Whites, p bbl. 2 co @ 2 25 
Delaware, sweet. V bbl. 5 00 @ 8 50 
Norfolk, sweet, V bbl. 3 00 & 3 25 
Onions, Red, p bbl. 5 00 a 6 00 
Onions, White, V bbl. BOO @8 00 
Onion*, Vellow, V bbl,. 5 00 m 6 30 
Tomatoes, # basket. 1 75 @ 2 oo 
Marrow Squash, $ bbl. 1 00 fa 1 00 
Cabbages, * too. 8 00 @12 00 
Turnips, p bbl. >50 @ 3 00 
Pumpkins, # too. 6 00 @ 8 00 
Fbuits.— Apples are quiet, with an overstocked, and weak 
market. Grapoa, If tine, do well; but poor stock, of which 
the bulk of receipts are composed, urc unsalable except at 
low rates. Cranberries are In light supply, and llrtn. 
Apples, Greenings, p bbi;. 3 50 @400 
Apples, Baldwin*, P bbl. 3 50 @ 1 00 
Apples, Mixed lots, P bbl. 3 U0 @ 3 75 
Apples, common, * bbl. 2 50 @ 3 50 
Apples. SpltzenboTER, $ bid. 3 30 @ 4 00 
Grapes,Isabellas, ^ lb .. 6 @ 3 
Grapes, common, 1» th... 3 @ 4 
Grapes, Catawba, *t lb. 12 @ 15 
Quinces, 13 bbl.. 8 00 Ml4 00 
Cranberries, # bbl. 16 00 \gfZ 0 00 
Dbibd Fruits.—'D ried Apples are in limited demand, tbe 
only inquiry being for city retail trade, PencheB are quiet 
and unchanged. 
New Apples, State, IP lb... 10K@ 11J4 
New Applus, Western, 18 It. s v.@ t()jz 
New Apples, Southern, i* Hi. 7 ' @ 9 
Peaches, prime, peeled. # tt,. 25 (a) 26 
Peaches,good, B ». 20 @ 23 
Peaches, common, peeled,. 12 m 18 
Peaches, napeeled,halves, W Tb . 12 @ 13 
Peaches, unpeefed, quarters, tb. .. . 9 
Blackberries, 'Si lb. 20 @ 22 
I 
1 ! 
6 @ 8 
3 @ 4 
12 @ 15 
8 00 MU 00 
16 OO &20 00 
Raspberries, 18 n>. 44 @ 
Cherries, pitted, 18 tb. u @ 
Plume, ¥ lb. 26 @ 
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omestit ^foworng. 
More Bedquilts.—C ompetitors, in the bedquiit 
line, continue to claim a hearing. Since publishing- 
the last summary, we have received the following: 
PlCCCfi. 
M. M. Dixon, Indianapolis Iowa. . 3,660 
R M. Wilsie, Metomen, Wis. 4,840 
Hattie Bradncr, Rupert, Vt. 5,587 
Ettic Smiley, Le Roy, Iil .. 5,663 
Hannah L. B., N. Sunbrulge, Vt. 6,357 
Jane B Evans, Perryville, Ind. . .... 6,850 
Fannie C. TutnilLBrimfiold, Ohio. 6,864 
Nannie A Rose, Chenango Forks, N. Y. 7,500 
C, C. L., Wisconsin.. 10,743 
Electa M. Miller, Low Hampton, N. Y.11,571 
Mrs. Evans, since she was 65 years old, (now 72,) 
has pieced three silk quilts, with an aggregate of 
7,047 pieces, Mrs. Wilste’s little girl pieced blocks 
enough for a quilt before she was five years old. 
Gargle for Sore Throat.— Strong sage tea, % 
pint; strained honey, common salt and strong 
vinegar, 1 tablespoon of each ; Cayenne pepper, 
pulverized, 1 rounding teaspoon; steep the Cay¬ 
enne with the sage; strain, mix and bottle for use. 
Gargle from four to a dozen times daily, according 
to the severity of the case.— Mrs. H. E. Bunce, 
Marysville. 
To Wash Merino Stockings. —The same method 
should he pursued as for flannels, and ail woolen 
aud cotton goods. Boil the soap to make a lather, 
wash them in this warm, and rinse in a second' 
lather, (if white mix a little blue.) Never rinse in 
plain water, or use cold lather; and never rub the 
soap upon the merino or flannel; the one shrinks, 
the other thickens and spoils the wool. 
Mince Pies. —Boil fresh beef or a beef tongue 
tender. Let it cool, then chop it fine, with one 
pound of suet, one-half peck of apples, two pounds 
of currants, picked and washed very carefully; one 
pound of citron sliced, half an ounce each of pow¬ 
dered cloves, allspice, cinnamon aud ginger; three 
pints of sweet cider, one pint of Madeira wine, half 
a pint of brandy, with enough sugar to sweeten to 
your taste. This will mako a large jar full. 
Curing Hams.— Take the hams as soon as the 
hog is cold enough to cut up, rub them well with 
common salt and leave them for three days to 
drain; throw away the brine, and for two hams 
of 15 or 18 pounds each, mix two ounces of salt¬ 
petre, a pound of brown sugar and a pound of com¬ 
mon salt. Rub the hams with these, lay them in a 
deep pickling dish with the rind downwards, and 
keep them for three days well corned with the salt 
aud sugar, then pour over them a bottle of good 
vinegar and turn them in the brine and ijaste daily 
for a month. Then hang them np to dry, and after 
they are perfectly dry, smoke. 
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