A writer in the Cottage Gardener describes a method by which he obtains early results from planting strawberries. He first allowed the runners to form a mass of rooted plants; these he took up with a spade, three inches deep, and in blocks nine inches square, the work being neatly done by cutting them by lines. In a well prepared bed, these blocks were set eighteen inches apart, in trenches dug two feet apart. The roots not being injured in the least, the crop was excellent. We have adopted a similar plan, cutting smaller blocks, with single strong plants to each. They were set out in spring, and the plants being checked none, the bed bore a fair crop of ripe berries, six weeks after setting. If the operation is well performed, beds might be set in autumn without danger of the plants suffering by the freezing of winter, a slight covering of evergreens being given - Country Gentleman.

Fuchsia Seed - A party visiting a fuchsia house, on one of the seed farms of Europe, was asked to guess the weight of seed procured from that one house - about ten by thirty feet in size. Twenty, ten, and even as little as one pound were suggested, but the fact proved that the entire product was only one quarter of an ounce.

A Beach orchard in Maryland contains 1,013 acres. At the height of the past season 600 hands were employed in picking, paring and canning the fruit, and the daily work was about 4,000 baskets, or 30,000 cans.