" Fruits of all kinds may be grown without seed by reversing the cion - rooting the top end of the cion. To do this, you can bend the cion to sprout down, and cover it with dirt, and after rooting cut loose, and let the root end be up. Apples are grown without cores, peaches without seed, and grapes, plums, cherries, blackberries, and every kind of fruit may be grown without seed by simply reversing the cion. Persimmons without seed are not to be excelled by any other fruit in this country when dried. Apples cooked without cores are delightful. Grapes • have been raised for five thousand years without seed. Peaches dried whole without seed would be a hundred times better than those shaved up and dried. The seeding of cherries has been a great trouble to cooks".

As the above appears in a religious paper, the Christian Advocate, we should say there is, after all, a decided conflict between religion and science. Any one who has ever had a raspberry or gooseberry root from the tips, will know whether rooting at the top end of a " scion " produced seedless fruits.