hay preventing any injury to the apples, 
even during sharp weather. They are then 
assorted and packed in barrels, which, after 
heading up, are placed in a cold cellar, which 
is kept at a temperature of about 32’’, and if 
it should happen 10 be a few degrees lower 
for a short time the protection of the barrels 
will prevent any injury. They come out 
sound in the spring. 
Pennsylvania Pears a. Non-Blighter.— J. 
F. Tallant, Burlington, Iowa, says (in 
in regard to the degeneration and running 
out of varieties when they have been in ex¬ 
istence a certain number of years. The said 
Dr. Knight was certainly a very able po- 
mologist, but his “running out ” theory was 
a myth, although he has many disciples even 
at the present day, and among men “ who 
have eyes and see not.” 
We notice that the “tree-poisoning” or 
excrementit.ious theory has broken out 
among the members of the Alton (JO].) Horti- 
THE CRANBERRY MARKET 
RECENT STYLES AND FASHIONS. 
The following interesting report is from 
the anuual circular of French & Co Our 
recent statistical report to the New Jersey 
Cranberry Growers’ Association shows the 
entire acreage in New Jersey under regular 
cultivation to be 4.969 acres. Average cost 
at three years from settling (the fruit bearing 
age), $334.50 per acre, making total invest¬ 
ment of $1,(162,180. C rops in this State have 
been, in 1871, 58,8:10 bushels; 1872, 08,322 
bush. ; IS73, 110,100 bush. The average mar¬ 
ket prices have been, in the years named, 
$3.42, $3.21, $2,93, respectively. Abating $1 
per bushel from market price for cost of 
picking and marketing, would make the crop 
of 1873 worth on the viues $224,S10, or 13)^' 
per cent, on the entire investment. 
The New Jersey fruitage in 1873 was most 
bountiful, but 40 to 50 percent, was destroyed 
by the rot. This season the average fruitage 
upon old plantations is believed to be 30 to 
10 per cent, below last year, but the rot on 
these has not been so severe. New bogs 
have suffered most, as usual, the entire crop 
in many cases being lost,. Allowing for in¬ 
crease of acreage, we think the entire crop 
of the State must be 25 per cent, below that 
of a year ago. 
The crop on the eastern portion of Cape 
Cod is very light, and in many districts 
almost an entire failure. The western por¬ 
tion and the adjoining islands have good 
crops. The other cranberry districts of 
Massachusetts and Rhode Island nearly all 
of them have good crops. The few planta¬ 
tions on Long Island and other portions of 
New York have good crops. 
The fruit not affected by New Jersey rot 
seems sound and solid, promising to keep 
well. 
The Western crop reports have been vary¬ 
ing and conflicting. In early August the 
yield of the section about Berlin, Wis., was 
estimated at 18,000 to 20,000 bushels, against 
87,000 bushels in 1872, in the latter part of 
August estimates increased to 25,000 or 30,000 
bushels. In September, 45,000, and in one 
instance 75,000 bushels, was estimated. But 
a letter just received from H. S. Sackktt, 
Esq., of Berlin, says '“ The entire crop of 
this section is now in barrels, and numbers 
less than 7,000,” or say 21,000 bushels. Our 
comparative crop estimates are now as fol¬ 
lows : 
1872. 1873. 1874. 
_ _ . Bush. Bush. Bush. 
P i8lfnds . , J . aCen ! f 20.000 «0.000 70,000 
Mass, and R. Island- 20,000 25,000 35,000 
New Jersey . 100,000 110,OOo 00,000 
Wisconsin, Minnesota, ( 1 nn nnn 
Indiana and Mich... f *^°’®00 60,000 oO.OOO 
New York. 5,000 
Totals. . 275,000 275,000 250,000 
Cranberries were, early last month, inju¬ 
diciously pushed on the market from New 
Jersey in advance of the seasonable demand. 
Much of the fruit was imperfect, and prices 
were irregular but averaged low. There is 
now a good demand for prime fruit at mod¬ 
erate prices, say $2.75 to $3 for standand 
bushel boxes, and $8.50 to $9 for bbls. of 
prime quality. Fancy fruit, in either style, 
brings more. If the regular alternation 
which has prevailed for five or six years con¬ 
tinues, cranberries will be low next spring. 
The abundance and cheapness of apples also 
favors that result. But with the exception 
of last season after the panic, cranberries 
have not, since 1860, been so low in October. 
The prices of the past will not of necessity 
be repeated, and unless consumption is 
checked by an injudicious advance we may 
fairly hope that thedemand will be sufficient 
to insure prices relatively fair to the end of 
the season. 
The soundness of the fruit and present low 
prices make this a veiy favorable time for 
pushing its introduction and sale in foreign 
markets; but the Cranberry Growers’ at¬ 
tempted organization for that purpose seems 
to make slow progress, and is in danger of 
missing this opportunity. 
3’ he newest dress goods for walking cos¬ 
tumes is matelassi cloth, or basket cloth 
serge, a wove goods in raised line flgures 
imitating the materials from which the 
names are taken. The colors are brown, 
plum, dark and (invisible blue, and black! 
These goods are a yard and a half wide, and 
ten yards are sold for a complete costume. 
The price ranges from $1.40 to $2 a yard. 
It will be sufficient to signify one stylo of 
making, which will give an idea of what 
degree of trimming should be used. In real¬ 
ity, this cloth is not as heavy as it appears, 
but it will be evident that it should not ap¬ 
pear overloaded. The skirt should be of 
walking length, clearing the ground com¬ 
pletely. A deep kilt plait, reaching to the 
knees in wide kilts, is placed around the front 
and side widths. To prevent extra weight 
the breadths need reach only to the plaiting. 
The back breadth is joined to the waist in 
full triple box plaits, caught at different 
points down the skirt just lightly enough to 
hold them in place. The overskirt consists 
of a deep apron front fastening underneath 
the basque, but not over the box plait of the 
back breadth. The apron can bo simply hem¬ 
med or trimmed with a row of Titan braid. 
The basque has the middle forms extending 
but a half finger’s length below the waist; 
the side forms are lengthened, cutoff square 
and on these square pockets are set. The 
back is trimmed with rows of Titan braid 
in a triangular shape, tile outer lines curved 
inward, or the same shape may be described 
in black silk or silk the shade of the goods. 
The front of the basque is plain, rounding in 
front ; the sleeves a snugly-fitting coat, with 
little or no cuff. This dress, as almost all 
dresses arc, is worn with belts. Leather 
belts and belts of oxydized silver are in vogue. 
I n other woolen goods plaids are more fash¬ 
ionable than plain cold's. By plaids is not to 
be understood Tartan or Scotch plaids, but 
indistinct plaids in shades of brown, blue and 
gray. For young ladies a scarlet or yellow 
line is seen threading the plaids. 
The fronts of block silk dresses are almost 
all entirely plain, with the exception of the 
single gathered flounce on the bottom, which 
lias a French hem, or perhaps, if more trim 
ming is desired, a knife plaiting Is placed on 
the edge ; otherwise, the front is trimmed 
with lengthwise puffs, strips of velvet or of 
jet trimmings. The hack widths are in box 
plaits, caught up in puffs, or left full and 
flowing from underneath the basque. 
To the above costumes wo will add an even¬ 
ing dress which, though pretty, is so simple 
in construction any skillful lady can copy it. 
A pink silk with a derai-train around the 
skirt is a pinked-out box plaiting, three- 
eighths of a yard wide. This plaiting should 
be as full and fluffy as possible. The over¬ 
dress consists of a triple tunic of gauze, 
each edge trimmed with white silk fringe, 
in the back the apron is hid in wide sash 
ends ; in the back the waist is of pink silk, 
with Grecian folds of gauze, short pink 
sleeves and longer sleeves, reaching below 
the elbow, of gauze. 
Gauze and crepe lisse are very much used 
for trimming party dresses, as flounces, 
plaitings, draperies and gauze sleeves. Very 
lovely accessories to dresses are gauze polo¬ 
naises striped with satin or watered ribbon. 
Sleeveless jackets made of muslin puffs and 
inserting can be easily made at home by fit¬ 
ting the jacket first of muslin, then basting 
on the puffs, which should be graduated to¬ 
ward the waist and the inserting. When the 
different pieces are completed they should 
be sewed on the machine with very fine 
thread and carefully catching the edge of 
the lace. Afterward the foundation can be 
cut out and the edges trimmed. Nice home 
work will bo to braid a blue or white merino, 
satin or silk dolman for party wear with 
silver braid, which is one of Worth's fancies. 
A new fashion is to trim felt hats with two 
ostrich tips at the back—one standing up, the 
other facing on the back of the hair. 
Hair will be worn lower. The front hair 
is parted and brought down on the forehead 
in waves and fastened low behind the ears. 
FOOT REST FOR INVALID. 
The engraving represents a foot rest, made 
rather more ornamental than usual, and suit¬ 
able for either an old or young person. The 
frame is made of wood, covered with green 
p’oiv nsrvLvYirtiJs. 
cultural Society, end In a report of a discus¬ 
sion upon the subject of re-sotting old or¬ 
chards, or planting young apple trees in the 
same place where old ones have died, the 
old hydra-headed monster has appeared, as 
may bo seen by the following : 
O. L. Baruch.— Do you find any difficulty 
in getting young apple trees to live set in the 
place where one has died { 
Snepeker.—T here is a serious difficulty in 
getting a tree to live set in the place where 
one has died, r know gentlemen of large 
experience in sotting orchards who hav-Mlis- 
carded the practice of renewing an orchard 
in this way, or if he did set in the same nlace 
he would dig out a great hole and draw a 
wagon load of new soil to the place and in 
this way re-setting might be successful. 
lhe better practice is to set six foot away 
leavmg the rows straight in one direction 
but all disorder in the other. The very best 
practice, however, when the orchard needs 
re-setting is to cut. the old trees eutirelv 
away and select a now site for the future 
orchard. 
.iam.es Star.—You would not hesitate to 
set where a young tree, say four to six 
years, had died ? 
Snfoeeer.—Y es ; 1 would not, if I could 
help it, set a tree where one four years old 
had died. I do not say an old tree might .lie 
and a young tree live, but the chances are 
against it. 1 here seems to be some poison- 
rma unit 1 or in f ho oa>I . a i. ■ 
REPLANTING ORCHARDS 
We would certainly not recommend the 
planting of an apple orchard on the same 
land where one had grown, reached ma¬ 
turity and died of old age, if another equally 
as good location could readily be obtained. 
But if the location and exposure were more 
favorable than any other we would not hesi¬ 
tate one moment through fear of any exere- 
mentitioua materials which are by some 
supposed to be left in the soil by trees while 
growing therein. Of course, if the soil has 
become poor and its fertility exhausted, it 
should be again made rich before replanting ; 
but an old apple tree returned to its original 
elements would furnish pabulum to sustain 
growth to a Jyoung tree of the same kind, 
just as good as that from an oak or elm. 
Strange theories, however, do sometimes 
find their way among horticulturists as well 
as other people, and perhaps none has held 
on longer than this one of plants poisoning 
the soil with excrementitiou6 matter thrown 
off from the roots. The nature of this pe¬ 
culiar material remains a mystery, and this 
fact is probably one of the principal reasons 
why 60 many arc inclined to believe in its 
existence. 
This “exerementitious” theory belongs to 
the melancholy side of fruit culture, and has 
as much foundation in fact as Dr. Knight’s, 
Pear Seedlings.—A Western paper says ; 
“ It is of little use to experiment with pear 
seedlings, as they are liable to leaf blight the 
first summer, which will destroy most if not 
all of them, unless they are treated by an 
experienced hand in the business.” This in 
answer to a Nebraskan’s inquiry. How it 
may be in Nebraska we cannot say from 
either observation or experience; but we 
know Eastern fanners who every year or 
two sow a quantity of pear seed, raise seed¬ 
lings from them as easily and cheaply as 
from apple seed, top-graft them and All up 
their orchards with them ; and they are uo 
more likely to blight than pear trues from 
the most accomplished nursery men. 
POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP 
Keeping Winter Apples.—A member of 
the Michigan Pomological Society stated at 
a late Adrian meeting that he was very suc¬ 
cessful in keeping winter apples, and had se¬ 
cured sound, fresh fruit in May by the fol¬ 
lowing treatment:—He picks the fruit in 
October and places it in heaps in the orchard 
and covers the heaps with hay. These heaps 
remain untouched till December, the slight 
moisture of the earth and the few inches of 
