Barbed Wire Fences

These are known in England as "steel wire hedges."

Fruits And Vegetables At Charleston

Charleston has engaged profitably in truck farming, a pursuit which was virtually unknown in this district before the war. The value of the Charleston fruits and vegetables, shipped last year to Northern markets, was over a million dollars. Charleston, moreover, has created a vast business in the manufacture of commercial fertilizers.

Highland Beauty Apple

We have some specimens before us, on the 9th of April, in good preservation. They confirm the opinion we have given of it heretofore - that it is a pretty looking apple, an excellent keeper, though by no means a first class eating variety.

Responsibility Of Railroad Companies For Burning Forests

At Philadelphia, in the United States Circuit Court, in the case of Robert D. Coxe and wife against the West Jersey Railroad Company, to recover the value of trees burned on the lines of the road, caused by sparks from locomotives, the jury, on April 13, rendered a verdict for the plaintiff for $586.71.

Growth Of Catalpa Speciosa

Mr. Suel Foster gives the following figures of a tree planted by Mr. A. Bryant, at Princeton, 111., in 1840: " Girth two feet from the ground, nine and a half feet; girth five feet from the ground, eight feet; height of tree, sixty-five feet; spread of branches, eighteen to twenty-one feet from the trunk on all sides." This is adding nearly half an inch of growth a year, and is a good record.

Kansas Forests

It is said by newspaper reports, which, however, are not always accurate, that over 90,000 acres of forest has been planted in Kansas. Whether strictly correct or not, there has been a large extent planted.

Poisoned By Lima Bean Roots

The family of F. L. Kellogg, at Goleta, Santa Clara county, were dangerously poisoned a short time since by eating the roots of Lima beans, which they happened to discover were very palatable. - Pacific Rural Press.

Annual Report Of The N. J. State Geologist, 1882

From Prof. Cook, State Geologist, New Brunswick, N. J. This volume is profusely illustrated by sketches of some of the most striking features in the geology of New Jersey - chiefly in connection with the sandstone formations.

Worcester County (Mass.) Horticultural Society - Transactions For 1883

From Ed. W. Lincoln, Secretary. It is always a pleasure to receive this annual volume. Like that of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, it represents the doings of a class of intelligent horticulturists, who do much to maintain the dignity of gardening in our country.