Reeve's Favorite

An excellent variety, the fruit being large, the skin yellow, with red cheek. The flesh is a deep yellow, and red at the stone. The flavor is rich.

References To Numbers On Plan

1. Ventilators in front wall. - 2. Pit with movable top. During the winter months the top is closed, and the pit kept filled with Rhubarb which forces admirably; during the summer, the top is removed and the pit filled with some fermenting material for plunging young grape vines in. - 3. Two 2-inch pipes passing through the tank. - 4. Return pipe passing round the outside of the tank. - 5. Tank. - 6. Potting Bench. - 7. Smoke flues which pass directly under the tank around the house. - 8. Boiler House.

Refrigerators

The warm season brings with it a desire for the means of preserving meat, vegetables, fruits, etc., from rapid deterioration. Numerous refrigerators have been manufactured and offered to the public, and many of them have partially answered the purpose intended, but at a large expenditure of ice. Lately, A. M. Lesley, of 605 Sixth Avenue, New York, has devised one, which, after a careful trial, we pronounce to be the best contrivance we have seen for the purpose intended. It is neat in appearance, substantial in construction, economical in the consumption of ice, and what is so necessary to the proper preservation of articles of food - keeps the interior atmosphere dry.

Regonias

This class of plants is better suited for house culture than those more commonly selected. Succulent plants delight in a hot, dry atmosphere. The bloom of the Begonia Magnifies is most beautiful and constant - the petals resemble frosted glass; it has a very delicate, spicy perfume. I have had a specimen in bloom since the first of October. The flower closes at sunset. It requires plenty of water while blooming. - Am. Farmer.

Regular Meeting, July 5th

This being the day for the award of prizes on forced grapes and cherries, a flue exhibition of these two fruits was made. Over forty varieties of cherries , were however on hand, together with several fine collections of currants, and many fine proses, Ac. John B. Eaton, Recording Secretory. '

Remarkable Growth Of Plants In California

Think of a fig tree set out when 6 inches high, and two years afterwards measuring 12 feet high, with a head 7 feet across, and trunk 91/2 inches in circumference. Yet this is vouched for by a correspondent of the Rural Home.

And now comes another bigger story: A California gardener has in his garden two plants of the Ricinus, planted 13th of May, and grown in one season to 17 feet. One of them had six stalks, each 11 feet high, and all 12 feet across, the trunk measuring 13 1/2 inches in circumference, and bearing 16 spikes of seeds, each 12 to 28 inches in length. The whole appearance of the plant is described as very showy and highly ornamental. The stalks and stems are a blood-red, the spikes a most brilliant scarlet, and the broad magnificent foliage, a beautiful metallic green, made altogether a very attractive appearance.