Small Fruits For The Family Garden

Mead, by Louis Ritz, before the Eastern Ohio Horticultural Society.

A Small Garden, But Large Enough

Persons who have but a small garden should remember the reply of Hahnemann, the homoeopathiet: " It is but a narrow patch, but there is no end of its height".

Smith's Bee Hot

In answer to inquiries, we wish to state that Mr. Henry A. Baker, of Dover, N. J., is the agent for the Bee Hive noticed in our last No.

Smith's Bordenave

This va riety was imported from France into Hartford,Ct., many years since, and has been somewhat extensively dis tributed by Alfred Smith, Esq., of that city. The fruit is of medium size, acute pyriform in shape, with a dull greenish russet coat. The flesh is juicy and buttery, and the flavor peculiar, sprightly and spicy. The true or original name, is yet unknown. Ripens about the middle of September. A valuable acquisition.

Smock

This variety of freestone peach is well known for its productiveness and value as a market peach; also a favorite for pickling, preserving, etc. The fruit is oblong, skin light yellow, mottled with red. Flesh yellow, but red at stone. Season, last of September and first of October.

Soap By The Saponifire

Every housekeeper is talking about "the Saponifier," and, as we like to chronicle what is passing about us, we may as well state that the grocers have for sale the "Keystone State Saponifier," in pound canisters, each canister sufficiently strong in caustic soda to make half a barrel of excellent soft soap in a few minutes, and hard soap ad libitum. It is made at Tarentum, Alleghany County, Pa., by the Pennsylvania Salt Company, probably by the following process: Oil of vitriol decomposes the salt, and forms a sulphate of soda, which is decomposed by caustic baryta or strontia, and thus makes a nearly pure caustic soda. It is in general use, and the demand at nineteen cents a canister is equal to the power of making it, so that it is not advertised. Housekeepers are now enabled to use up their own soap-fat economically.

Society Number One

An agricultural club, seventy-five years established, incorporated by charter, meets in the second largest city of the Northern States, has a library and reading room, a president, two vice presidents, recording and corresponding secretaries, a treasurer, and librarian. Annual dues, $3. Holds monthly stated meetings, and occasionally an annual exhibition. The treasury is now without funds, and the society involved in debt, growing out of its recent attempt to get up an exhibition. The deficit is being collected by voluntary contributions, and is almost made up. What has this old society done for the promotion of agriculture, practical and scientific? I shall leave this question to you or your correspondents.

Society Number Three

A horticultural society of the empire city, incorporated some thirty years ago by charter, had a library, holds monthly stated meetings and displays, as well as an annual exhibition. Annual fee, $3. Of this society you know more than I do.