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shade of large trees and dense forests, where the atmosphere 
is continually moist, and no dry currents of air jessing over 
them. For this purpose, and at the same time making cheap¬ 
ness the rule, there is nothing better than cheap factory cloth, 
purchased one yard wide; the frame being one and a half 
yards wide, it is easily used. Make a frame from strips of 
bo$id, two inches wide and twelve feet long; nail a piece across 
each end, with one in the middle, using wrought nails, and 
clinching firmly. Let the width be the same as that of the 
seed bed; upon this tack the cloth, first sewing it together the 
correct width to cover the frame; draw it tight as possible, as 
it will naturally stretch with time; now with hinges attached 
(leather ends will answer) to the back of the frame, your bed 
is well prepared, and your seeds in a fair way to vegetate. 
On keeping up the moist, humid atmosphere the success of the 
growth of the evergreens will greatly depend. It will usually 
be found necessary to give them watering once or twice a, week. 
This is easily regulated by the surface appearance of the soil; 
and much will also depend upon the necessity and frequency 
of the application, in preparing the compost to withstand the 
drouth. 
During the entire season the covering may be removed en¬ 
tirely at evening; thus giving the young plants the benefit of 
dews, &c., to be again covered before the sun strikes them in 
the morning. If the heat is too great the cloth may be white¬ 
washed, which will remain good for six or eight weeks, when it 
is easily coated again. Winter by keeping dry, sprinkling 
them over with leaves from the forest to protect them from 
cold, and also from heaving out by frost. 
PURPLE CANE RASPBERRY. 
BY C. II. ROSENTIEL, FREEPORT, ILLINOIS. 
0. S. Willey. —In answer to yours of a late date, containing 
inquiries about this fruit, I can only speak so far as my expe¬ 
rience goes, in testing it. I think more of it than any other 
