Bradford Watermelon

The Bradford is a highly prized South Carolina Watermelon.

Size, large. Form, oblong. Skin, dark green, with gray, longitudinal stripes mottled and reticulated with green. Find, not exceeding half an inch in thickness. Seed, yellowish white, slightly mottled, and with a yellowish-brown stripe around-the edge, Flesh, fine red to the centre. Flavor, fine and sugary. Quality, "best".

Brahmas

An English gentleman recently wrote to the editor of the Cottage Gardener to inquire what specific kind of chickens he would advise him to keep, as being least troublesome and most apt to yield a fair return for the care extended to them. The editor in his reply says: "If you wish to have the best possible return with the least trouble, we advise you to keep Brahma Pootras. They are very hardy, good layers, good sitters, and good mothers. They are also very useful table fowls; and will do well in such a space as you name".

This brief but just tribute to the merits of Brahmas will meet the sanction of almost every breeder who has given them a fair and intelligent trial. E.

Branch-Trimmer

In this we have a good idea very imperfectly developed, as Touchstone might have said. In respect to its being a pruning-shecars,! like it very well; but in respect that it is a pruning-knife, it is a very vile one. The blade is not only of a form entirely unsuited to its proposed object, but the handle is so disproportionately small as to afford a very insufficient grasp to the operator; a very important point in removing a large branch, or operating for any length of time. I think that an American man-ufacturer might contrive a much better combination of the two implements; but by wearing at the waist a sheath into which either the shears or the open knife can be thrust, they may be used separately with far more efficiency and scarcely less convenience than the hybrid nnder consideration.

Branded St. Germain

Mr. Cabot: grew it fifteen years ago; has cut it out and rejected it.

Branded St. Germain Was Proposed

J. C. Cabot said it was a fine pear, but is not worthy of general cultivation - it is small, a poor grower, and liable to crack. It remains on the trial list.

The Pratt was similarly disposed of.

The Ott was taken up. Dr. Brinckle considered it the best summer pear known, having the flavor of the Seckel, and a month earlier. F. R. Elliott found it excellent in Ohio, but doubted if experience was sufficient to place it on the general list. There were 17 votes in favor of placing it there, and 15 opposed. So it remained in its former position.

Ananas d'Ete, Font en ay Jalousie, and Van Assene, were taken up, but did not pass beyond the list of those that promise well. F. L. Olmsted, T. Hancock, and others, stated that the Fontenay Jalousie cracks with them; C M. Hovey and A. H. Ernst, said that Van Assene proves very fine with them, while J. S. Cabot and others found otherwise; and with T. Hancock it cracked very badly.