years ago, and has ever since been well til ed 
without inmim - e, and not well managed, which 
Is still in good oondltion. Occasionally mail 
Holds are sec 11 that do not grow crops aslargo ns 
tliov oooo did, but. nil their fertility is immedi¬ 
ately restored by it dressing of lime; an cnect 
which could not have been produced by the lin.o 
on unmurlod land. 
1 am averse to hi\vlr 
rtoos 
exceptional. They may grow corn with shallow 
plowing, and would probably produce It with¬ 
out any plowing. But. other soils do not pro- | 
duoo well with shallow plowing, and produce \ 
better with deep. Ou tuy own land t plow, with 
a surface plow, us deep as 1 can with four oxen 
to draw, and follow with a subsoil plow which I 
put In as deep as two horses cun draw; mid I 
get better coru by such treatment than I can 
by shallow plowing. And yet it la not to bo 
supposed that every farmer to the country 
would ibid .lust such expensive preparation of 
the soli profitable. Culture must be adapted to 
the condition of tho soil and the character of 
the crop. And the man who advocates shallow 
plowing per se misleads people and does great 
damage-Tar more than ho who advocates deep 
culture. 
Prof. Cook of New Jersey Indorsed tho char¬ 
acter and srutetnouts of n avto Petit of Salem 
county, but asserted that it is true that tho soil 
In that locality Is exceptional, audit would not 
ho safe to base a rule upon such experiences. 
And even In that neighborhood farmers had 
told him that, whllo they plowed shallow for 
corn, so as to keep the inanuro (clover) uoar tho 
Burfacc, for grant crops they plowed much 
deeper. 
In this connection It. is proper that wo should 
present a sketch of tho way in which deep plow¬ 
ing is done by the great champion thereof, upon 
his farm at Chappaqua. Mr. Greeley has boon 
admirably presented to tho world in the role 
nf Wondehopper; but everybody knows ho has 
lorintllnrr 
tsewsstons 
rb art culture 
AMERICAN INST. FARMERS’ CLUB 
THE BOTHER OF FLOWERS. 
the valuation on thevn- 
greotl sand marls which are used in the 
State, based on the phosphoric acid amt potash 
only, as bus been done iu some analyses; for Ido 
not think limy an- the only useful subsliinOC* in 
It. Some have Him carbonate of lime of too 
much value to be neglected. And tho snip onto 
of lime-, (gypsum) In many of them is enough to 
be very ne.iirlloml to crops- t here are very ex¬ 
pulsive beds ef limestone in all tho northern 
part of the State. Those are i>r I ho pure and 
magnesian varieties, mid they furtibh an abun¬ 
dant supply of lime tor agricultural purposes In 
all parts of the state. Marsh mud Is a substance 
winch may be classed onhorasn sell nr a fertili¬ 
zer. it his elements In It which milk© tt valuable 
for a dressing upon upland, and It Is ilscll, when 
properly drained, ono of the richest of sous. 
Here is tho analysis of ono taken Irotn the marsh 
on the soa-aldo of Capo May county, near tho 
Court House; 
Solnblo silica.]&•§? 
«and. . 
Oxide of Iron . J-93 
Lime. 
Magnesia... 
Potash.. 
Sulphuric acid. L‘ ( ] 
Phosphoric acid. b->* 
Carbonic acid. 
Common salt .. •?•!£} 
Organic matter. 
Water. . 
Total... 
Ammonia.. 0*®* 
It is plain that this contains everything that is 
needed to make n fertile Beil. And where tried 
ns it Is in the banked mtushes on tho Delaware, 
it produces tho largest crops and at the least cost 
of any land in the State. 
The usual thanksgiving hymn was sung at the 
close of Prof. Cook's interesting talk. 
Product of n Guide Durham Cow.—S. P. Mil- 
t.kh, Fayetteville, Vt„ lias n grade Durham cow 
which produced from April 30th to Nov. 19th, 
1860,811 pounds of butter and 113 quarts of milk, 
bosldo tho milk and cream used In a family of 
live persons. Her feed consisted of two quarts 
of meal and shorts per day, with ordinary pas¬ 
ture privileges. 
Relative VnlttoofFreuh and Burned llorse Ma¬ 
nure.—J. J. Wolf, Bush Kun, Pa., asks thecotn- 
paratlvo value of fresh and burnt, horse manure. 
Mr. CmtTis says thoro is twenty-live to seventy- 
flvo per cunt , in favor of t he fresh manure. Tho 
Commander of tho Club, with great, kindly tool¬ 
ing, said the man who lets fresh horao manure 
burn, ought to bo buried hilt. A member sug¬ 
gested that that would provont Its burning. 
ToPropngnte Arbor Vltw.-E. Montfort, Ham- 
mondton, N. J., asks bow ho shall propagate tho 
English Arbor Vita?. Mr. Cavanaoh replied, 
take oil cuttings in the fall, plant In cold frames 
so that they will not freeze during winter, and 
in spring transfer to a hnt-bed or green-house 
with a moderate degree of bottom heat. They 
can bo propagated by layering, but the results 
are not as good as by cuttings. 
We continue our notes of the sayings and 
doings of this distinguished body of scientillo 
agriculturists. 
Changing Iluslnr*«.—B. B. Miller, Leyden, N 
Y., has a good dairy farm, but fancies he could 
do better in the nursery and Btmill fruit busi¬ 
ness. Ho asks the advice of the Club. He is 
told that if he has a good dairy bum ho had 
better stick to It and to that business, which 
was very sensible advice. 
Grain fur IHIIoli Cow*.—Ki.nF.RT Baxtf.u, North 
Salom, N. Y., asks If it pays to feed grain to 
milch cowa; and if bo, what Is tho best grain to 
feed? It is replied that it does pay to feed grain 
to milch cows at any time except when there is 
plenty of fresh grass. Brewers' grains, shorts 
and buckwheat bmu were recommended for 
milch cows. A mixture of corn and oat meal 
was also recoin mended. 
Deep v*. Shallow Plowing.—This novel and In¬ 
teresting subject, vfra* broached by tho Cham¬ 
pion of Shallow Plowing, who exhibited samples 
of n crop of com which he said had yielded ono 
hundred bushels to the aero the postseason. 11c 
referred to tho fact that Horace Greeley had 
said that “the tefichings of this Club would enst 
Pen Dennis, holding au extensive cor¬ 
respondence with relatives, young and old, 
is often favored with divers views of the 
same subject. Instance the two letters fol¬ 
lowing—from Peter Smith, Esq., and his 
niece, Jui.lv. Fust, an extract from the 
uncle’s: 
«I'm u practical man, as you very well know. 
I don’t snub modern ideas if they arc sensible. 
I take tho Rural and like it; hut that, or some¬ 
thing else, has* played the mischief' with Julia. 
I believe the; girl has gone flower-mad. In sum¬ 
mer she has beds full of the useless things; and 
it actually looks as If sotno stray rainbow had 
settled down in the garden. I wouldn't, object 
to a few hollyhocks, uml poonias and rose 
bushes, but. there’s no end to them and their 
long names. Consequence is, the girl spends 
more time out o’ doors than she does piecing 
bed-quills. But tho most trying time is in the 
winter; for she wants to bring in the whole 
garden. Every window is Mocked up, and they 
even da tig to from the ceiling. I sit down to 
read, and tun not slow to perceive that I have 
backed my chair into an oleander! I rise, and 
a swinging box of I don't know what -lilts up 
and showers tne with dirt! Fires are kept, air 
admitted or excluded for these unsatisfied 
will grow, and that vigorously. I know no 
plant that grows more readily from the cut¬ 
ting, and have planted with equal success in 
October, November and February. Several 
have planted here, and have nice hedges, 
with but little trouble. The following is the 
course adopted: 
Prepare the ground intended to he planted, 
by digging deep, and if poor, enriching with 
vegetable mold, as nothing will flourish in a 
poor soil or clay; take the cuttings, the 
growth of the previous season, and in pieces 
of a foot long set. in the ground eight inches, 
slanting a little, and leaving four inches 
above. They must not he disturbed the first 
year, by hoeing or weeding, and if planted 
where they are intended to stand, auy that 
don’t grow can be replaced with some taken 
from one end of the row, and the others will 
have furnished cuttings enough to make sev¬ 
eral strings of fence of same length. It makes 
a useful as well as ornamental hedge, and if 
trimmed at. the 1st of June, and any time 
from November 1st to February 1st, cutting 
it well back each time, it will in a few years 
make a fence impervious to stock or any¬ 
thing else. B * 
Lexington, Miss., Jan. IT, 1870. 
-- 
Protection for Orchard Tree*.— Dr. JOHN A. 
Kennicott iiseil to say that the best protection 
for an orchard is to make the limbs spread out- 
low, and cover up the trunk until the rough 
bark is formed.- Ohio HumaihXKl. 
patronize it. What can 1 do t 
To which Pen Dennis replied: 
“There nrc worse hobbies than flowers, Uncle 
Peter. If you don’t appreciate their refining 
influence, norotljoy their beauty, l am Kind that 
somebody el8©can. Fit? on tho bed quilts! They 
ought to bo abolished. Bear your trials with 
fortitude, or else bribe JpLtA into dealing a 
window for your special benefit. Don’t grum¬ 
ble any more, whatever else you do.” 
Julia wrote; 
“My plants an; flourishing. Just now T have 
tho most beautiful of callus, red roses, hyacinths, 
abundance of lemon blossoms, and verbenas, 
ivy and moneywort, grow rapidly; also my pet, 
maunindva, Uncle frets and fusses ns usual; 
but I half hollevf that he enjoys them. I never 
lire of caring for them, and somobowthoee dark, 
wintry days seem less dull if one has the color 
end pm mine of flowers to keep alive tho memo¬ 
ries of summer. 
“I have a bit of the vqry wild wood itself im¬ 
prisoned in my Wardian case. In tho center, an 
extroniclv rough old knot, its sidoa crusted with 
red, cupped lichens. Through tho middle of the 
knot a might v fern (Aftpidium acrostichoides) 
erects its shiuiug Ironds. Smaller ones of the 
bark is formed 
Dr. John A. Kennicott had a better knowl¬ 
edge of tin; fdhn required to enable trees to 
sustain tho ext remes of temperature, and gales 
Of wind belonging to tlm prairies of Illinois and 
tho Wo 3 t, than any man who has ever yet lived. 
His teachings wrought, an entire olnwigo in the 
manner of training, and thus gave fruit grow¬ 
ing a start and position in Illinois and other 
Western prairlo lands that otherwise would not. 
to this day have been accomplished. Illinois 
and all our Western free planters will do well to 
heed this advice or the good “old Doctor;'' for 
let what may be said in favor of the goodness 
of their soli, and more than the tenth can 
hardly ho said, they are situated In a zone of 
great extremes, and will always be subject to 
great storms, excessively strong and liurshdry- 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES 
XHJL CXI^JVIPIOTN OW DICEI? FLOWING ATT WORK. 
H. G.—Put on your weight, FATniCK ; put on yeur weight I Tho moisture In there, and I’m going down 
deeper to and it,! 
Patrick 0* Jabor* ! rao weight is all on 1 (So/if.— This Is a quaro counthry!) 
tho country ono million bushclsof corn this sea- resigned this distinction in favor of Hon. Susan 
sonand to tlm statement, of Mr. Fuller, that, U. Anthony. Our sketch shows hitn actively 
a litt le knot of farmers of Salem Co., N. J., were employed in his favor!to recreation. Aud it is 
doing mpro harm by tho advocacy of shallow fitting that, al ter the Commander of the Club, 
plowing than the Club could do In six months; wo should present, the most distinguished mem- 
and yet these same advocates of shallow plow- her of the Club In character. May lie live long 
ing grow one hundred bushels of shelled corn to to preach and practice deep plowing! 
Done Dust Again.—Homo of tho Ax-Grinding 
Professors of Now Jersey used the Club’s Grind¬ 
stone. A rull report-nf the process will bo In¬ 
serted In the Rural at $3.50 per line. 
New Jersey Geology.— GEORQK H. Cook,S tate 
Geologist of Now Jersey, gave, by tho aid of 
maps and Illustrations, an interesting exhibit of 
the geology of New Jersey. In Illustration of 
the chemical difference of soils, and the im¬ 
portance of analyses to determine their relative 
fertility, he said;—“ For Instance, In the north 
Fences for Burial Place*.—A Delaware corves-I 
pondent asks some of our renders to give “a plan 
for fencing family burying grounds, with cost 
per rod—material to be brick, stone or Iron. 
If by “family burying ground" is meant, a lot 
inside a cemetery, none of the material named 
should he used. Only an evergreen screen or 
hedge should bo tolerated. If the family bury¬ 
ing ground is upon the homestead anil is exclu¬ 
sively for tho family, theu wo should prefer a 
hedge—Osage Orange. Barberry or Honey Lo¬ 
cust. If either of tho materials named by tho 
correspondent Is to be used, we should prefer 
moots of field crops, dressed meats, Sc. I here 
were mi exhibition live dressed pigs, ten months 
mid younger, the combined weight of which was 
l.rtll pounds. Thro© belonged to U. MCMURRAY, 
Delhi, ten months old. which weighed, respeo- 
tiv. lv, HI, 851 and 332 pounds; two to S. H. 
WniTic, Delhi, nine months old, which weighed 
371 arid XJH pound* each. 1 believe limy wore of 
the Chester white variety. Wcnhoitld be pleased 
to hear (he weight of pigs in those counties 
where they raise corn.—P orter Fuisbkb. 
Orleans Co., Vt„ Ag. 8oe. at tho annual moot- 
ting oleotod ,>Ulcers for 1870 as follows: Pres.— 
>Lm. Kelsey, Derby. VToarnai’ts.—J.B. tv hue- 
lock, Coventry : Aim* Paine, Lowell. See s.— 
Z. E. Jamison, trashurgh; r. H. Haskins, New- 
port. Ex, Com.—Joiin ioIiwh Aibtiuy * J* 
tie. Burton ; A. O- Joelyn, Drownlngton ; J. C. 
Oliver, Charleston; Salmon Nye, Coventry j E. 
S. Hustings, Ct'.'iftsnury; J. F. Mon III, Dei by, 
Emory Cook, Glover; Samuel Ingalls, Greens¬ 
boro;' Hiirv.-v Marsh, Holland; John t, Dodge, 
lrasburgh; M. >S. Chimilierialn. Jay; B. F. I nine, 
Lowell; Clms. Leavens. Morgan; G- J- Kendall, 
Newport; Lewis Shetld,Salem; M. Kennedy, Jr., 
Troy; Alonzo Beckman, W©itmora; A. S. Mil¬ 
ler,'Westfield. 
l empkiiiH Co., N. V„ Ag. Hoc. elected as offi¬ 
cers tor the current year: Pirn. U. CuuMSnd, 
Caroline, Vice Pecs'Is.- U. A. B. Ridgeway, ( aro- 
uby; Peter V. Snyder, 
nev, Biitield; John P. 
Willots, Ithaca: David 
. C. Douglas. New field; 
es. Direr tor a ■ Levi G. 
I bright* Drydon, I'l'can. 
i. See. Edgar Brewer, 
tho acre. Mr. Fuller said he would take his 
statement all back. He did not believe the ad¬ 
vocates of shallow plowing had done much dam¬ 
age ; for ho did not bellovo tho fanners of the 
oount.ry were such fools ns to bolieve all that is 
said In its favor by the Salem Co. advocates of 
it. Mr. Fuller road u statement coueorniug 
the results of a different management of the soil 
by Geo. M. Davis*, a progressive farmer resid¬ 
ing in tho neighborhood of the shallow-plowing 
fanners. The statement says Mr. Davis 1ms 
boon located there about throe years, but ap¬ 
pears to be making rapid strides In the direction 
of an Improved system Of agriculture and heavy 
crops. Though only twenty-two years of age, 
last season he received rrom tho county fair 
nine premiums, anil this year eighteen, Includ¬ 
ing those on wheat, coni and potatoes. lie has 
been practicing, since he started, deep plowing, 
and a friend knowing his operations sent Ut tho 
office of tho paper from which I quote some 
] samples of Ills vegetables. One was a parsnip 
! twenty-five inches long, and which the editor 
j justly recorded as a positive argument in favor 
Davis uses the double 
Growth of Twenty-Eight Year*' Old Norwny 
Spruce. -I'. Barry, Rochester, N. Y., writes to 
the Horticulturist: — “ I cot down to-day, No¬ 
vember filth, on my lawn, two Norway spruce 
trees, that were planted in 1841, when between 
two aud three l'oet In height. Tho measure¬ 
ment, when cut down, was, height, sixtv- 
four feet; diameter of trunk near the 
surface of ground, twenty Inches. They 
wore both perfect pyramids, tho lowest ^§£2 
tier of branches resting on Dio ground 
covered a circle about ono hundred feet <§» 
in circumference. The annual growth in 
height averages a little over two feet. 
Yon may be sure I cut such trees down 
with some reluctance. I planted them 
myself." A Western mftn would say to Mr. 
Barry's expression of reluctance, “You betl” 
from the soil, lime, sixteen pounds; potash, 
forty pounds; phoe. ac., tidily pounds." This 
land is absolutely Inexhaustible. Crop after 
crop Is produced upon it without manure, and 
with no depreciation in quantity and quality. 
The following was given u i the average compo¬ 
sition of seven samples of Capo May soil: 
Per rent. Lbs. per acre. 
Lime. ...0.37 111.117 
Potash. 0.43 18,395 
Phosphoric Acid............ 0.11 4,791 
Lime. 0.97 43,353 
Potash. 0.74 33,331 
Phosphoric Acid .. 0.15 6,534 
And tills of a yellow sub-soil, from near Shi¬ 
loh, called yellow marl, and sold for a manure, 
which Is used as a fertilizer at Shiloh, Cumber¬ 
land county, aud sells for forty cents per ton: 
Mine. 0.38 
Potash. 0.46 
Phosphoric Add. 0.45 
Of tho famous Green Sand Marl of Now Jersey 
Prof. Cook said: 
This remarkable fertilizer occurs in regular 
and extensive bode. Three of these are well 
characterized and defined. They are each about 
twenty feet thick, aud extend entirely across tho 
State, from Uarltnu Bay to the head of Delaware 
Bay, a distance of ninety miles. They slope off 
towards til© southeast, with a descent of thirty 
feet to the mile, «o that any one Of them has a 
breadth of ten miles within throe hundredfold, 
or file surface. The amount, of the material is 
practically inexhaustible. It has he n the means 
of enriching a large dial riot nl’ country. Land 
[ that was entirely worn out and abandoned has 
been restored to more than its original fertility 
by the use of marl alone. Its excellence!* at¬ 
tested by the ox pi rienei.; of thousands wno have 
eoinved its benefits. I ion confirmed in my 
opinion of it.s value by the testimony <<r success¬ 
ful fanners, who have used It for twenty years 
or more, and who assure metheyenn better uf- 
ford to incur nil expense from tlvo to ten dollars 
a too than lo farm without it or to use any other 
purchased fertilizers: and also confirmed by my 
own observation m nil parlsof Now Jersey whero 
marl has lieon used. Ii gives lasting fertility to 
the soil. While all other fertilizers are exhaust¬ 
ed and the soils become poor, I have to sec iho 
first field that has ever been well marled that, is 
now poor. One instance was found whore poor 
and sandy laud was marled mure than thirty 
of deep culture. 
Michigan plow, and follows with the subsoil, I 
loosening and disturbing tho soil to the depth of 
twenty Inches. 
At this point the Champion of Deep Plowing, 
Mr. Greeley, opport unely entered the hull. He 
was greeted with much applause. He said ha 
had traveled considerably over New Jersey tho 
post season, and In hla Judgment the corn crop 
of that State was considerably shortened by 
drouth. Crops require moisture during tho dry 
term, and he knows no better way. io most eases, 
to secure it for them than b.y golnQ down deeper 
to lhu.1 it. If t.Uo facilities are at hand for irrigat¬ 
ing tho land, deep plowing may not be so essen¬ 
tial ; but even then he would not Ray that shallow 
plowing Is better than deep plowing with irriga¬ 
tion. But without Irrigation the deplorable re¬ 
sults of shallow plowing, in cither dry or wet 
seasons, are sure to be seen, all oases to the con¬ 
trary being exceptional. 
This la Illustrated by the com crop of Virginia 
the past season, which is the largest grain crop 
the State produces. There were more acres In 
Virginia that had fewer t han ton bushels of corn 
per acre than there were that had more than 
that amount; and yet on the bottom lands of 
the Kanawha, on shallow plowed lands, crops of 
fifty to seventy-five bushels per aero were pro¬ 
duced with no more nor better culture tlum 
lands received elsewhere upon whicli the corn 
did not evou ear. On suoli slit bottom lands 
com will grow and produce if tho seed Is plant¬ 
ed. It was on these lands that the mju aw? have 
grown corn for five thousand yours, perhaps, by 
simply pawing out a hole in thosoil deep enough 
to cover the seed. Such soil does not need plow- 
! lug at all in order to produce; but. such soils are 
exceptional, and the practice that would suc¬ 
ceed on them would fail iu ninety-nine coses out 
of one hundred. 
These Jersey soils where shallow plowing suc¬ 
ceeds are like the silt bottoms of tho Kanawha, 
Douglas <’o., Kun., A«. N*>e. The following 
Officers were recently elected: Pres. — O. E. 
J.EARNAUP. Vice.-Pres.— Geo. Gutter. Nec.—Geo. 
8. Hampton. Treos.—Wm. Crutchfield. Board 
nr Directors— \v. H. IL Whitney,.!. L. Jones, Jim. 
Frazier, Jonathan Weaver, Joel Grover, Adam 
Rottman. A resolution was adopted asking tho 
Logisla* tire to pass an net. authorizing the boards 
of county commissioners throughout the State 
to extend county aid to local agricultural so¬ 
cieties. _ 
The Lancaster Go., Pn„ Ag. and ilort. Hoc. 
has an organ called the Lancaster Farmer, pub¬ 
lished by tho Society ut $1.26 per year, and edited 
by 8 S. Hath VON and A t .ex. Harris. Lust year 
it was edited by a publishing committee. Ah© 
Lancaster Society deserves much credit tor its 
character, and il Is an Index of the advanced 
condition of agriculture iu that county. 
New York Hmle Grape Grower*’ \*B(*elnllon.— 
At. tho annual meeting at Rochester, Jun. 18, th© 
following officer;* were elected: I ben. h. B. 
Pottle, Naples. Vie< -I > ren'ts. I*’. A. Hickson, 
Vine Valiev; G. L. Hoag, l.ockport; Stephen 
Underhill, Croton Point ; Dr. Merri ll. Genova; 
J. Lurrowc, ILiuimmiilspoi't. See, At. 1-. W ilcox, 
Kuirport. i?or. *SVt%- W. r. noiiiiysiit’Cy liroctou* 
Treas— M. D. Manger, Oiliianduiguu. 
TESTUDINARIA ELEPIIANTIPES. 
same sort, and the maiden's halv cluster around 
the base. Various mouses flourish here, and out.of 
their cool depth arise iurpulieus, polyanthus vio¬ 
lets, mitewort, stone-crop. Rich velvety fungi 
hide in th© shade, with resetto-1 Ike growths Of a 
creamy hoe. A few stones mid shells Ho upon the 
moseand there is ulsou com ling toad-stool. We all 
enjoy this, from grandmother downwards. Even 
little Jack studies the curious web of a spider 
therein contained, and likes to track my snail. I 
think Ik Marvel would marvel at my treasures. 
Uncle P. says “Pshaw!" or “Trash! ’ yet oven 
he has been'detected In u. smile over it. Perhaps 
he'll surrender.’' 
To whom Pen Dennis thus: 
“ Shouldn’t wonder if he did, my dear. Molli¬ 
fy him by Condensing your “ treasure,” and al¬ 
lowing Inin a window. Bv all means keep your 
plums, if they don't interfere too much with the 
happiness of other people. Hueooss to your 
Wai'diim. “ Long may ft wave ! ” p. n. 
Young Trees for Planting.—F. K. Elliott 
writes;—'“Aye, urge It, Larger trees can be 
equally successfully moved as small ones, but 
all things must be equal. There must be a cor- 
x-espondiugaddltlonal expenditure of labor and 
care in digging,same in packing, smuciu trans¬ 
planting, same iu unpacking, and again repeated 
In digging holes, preparing ground uud planting. 
If all this is equal, then all right; but except to 
him who has only a small place, wants to get a 
half dozen or so of trees, uud lias plenty of 
money, will it pay V The young tree is the one 
for the orchardist aud a new beginner of small 
means." 
itnrntigllHGo., W. V., An. Hoc. The following 
I,.ini-n comprise tho hoard of management 
Lh“0: Pres. John Manley, Little Valley. 
Pres,- John Gardiner. Oiuncwaiigo. Nec.— 
. Whitnov. Utile Valley, liras.-h. C. 
Us, Little Valley. DUcHor* Joseph 8milh, 
; David Whipple, Mmi-n-Id; 11. 1 iithill, 
011.0; E. Purdy, Little Valley ; /mu Dudley, 
Black Locust from Seed.—We find Die follow¬ 
ing in an exchange, uncredited; but we know it 
practical, and give it:—“ Gather the seed at any 
time after ripening, (even through the winter.) 
About April or May, or rather so soon as vegeta¬ 
tion is springing up, take your seed and put it in 
a common curthcn crock; fill tho crock nearly 
full of boiling water, set it aside and lot It cool. 
Pour off t he water and repeat the process again. 
When cool, plant the seed in a light bod, and 
they will come up as soon as common garden 
products. Try part of them (if you choose) In 
water not quite ut tho boiling point. 
Tcstudlnuria Elephnntipc*. — Wo find this 
c-limber (Elephant’s foot plant) figured in that 
admirable work, Hobtnbon'h “ Parks, Prome¬ 
nades and Gardens of Paris," (Published by 
ScitiUNKR, Welford & Co., (i>4 Broadway, New 
York,) and described as a singular and curi¬ 
ous plant. Wo have never seen it in this coun¬ 
try. Do any of our readers know anything 
about It? 
i jh 
K'Y 
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