elajmer .in? Votothetpa. now iiKwrAwr AN ANPABADUB BED. 1 have told how my neighbor manages his asparagus bed after it is once started. Think ing that some would like to know how to set out s i n asparagus bed, I inquired how the beds formerly described had been prepared and planted. It seems that before the old man came here he. owned a very fine bed, from wl*.h he had brought seed. Early in the spring he tnsxked as many of his very best shoots as he deemed necessary, and allovvedl them to grow up and ripen their seed. This seed he sowed. in drills, having thoroughly dug and prepared the ground.• Of course the young plants were carefull3^ cultivated and weeded. lie prefers plants one year old, and says that older plants. are notv,worth setting out. I have heard different opinions on this point, but I gave his plan as he stated it to me. 10-the meantime the ground for tue future aspaiagus bed was dug, or rather trenched deeply, and nnderdrained with stone drains (tile would, of course, have beenSbetter). The *soil was made very rich and thoroughly work: ed, so as to be light and porous. The plants were set in rows twelve- inches apart, the plants six inches apart in the rows. The beds aredivided so as to to feet wide, with al leys one. foot wide between. In this way he 'can cultivate his bed and cut the asparagus without walking over the soil—a very com mob, though very objectionable practice.— The planting should be done in the spring, and lithe plants are strong and healthy, the ground in good heart, and the beds properly cared for, a few dishes may be had the second ,year, although the bed does not come well in to bearing until the third year, and not fully until the fourth. At the rate of productive ness exhibited by the beds' described, a bed 3 feet wide and 25 feet long would five three or four good dishes per week during the season. It will thus be seen, that it is by no means a difficult operation to raise this delicious vege table, and yet I know villages in which there is not one asparagus bed to each hundred houses. , If any one after reading what I have written should be smitten with the fever, let them prepare a bed this fall. Next spring one year old plants can be ordered at a low rate from almost any seedsman, and if you follow the directions of our old friend, you will not find it difficult to grow asparagns.—Cor. Country Gentleman. AMERICAN POULTRY EXIIIBITION. — The first fall exhibition of this recently organized so ,clety is now open in New York, by far the largest show of poultry ever held ih thi§conn.: try. There are one thousand chickens,. and two hundred and fifty different varieties of fancy stock on exhibition. A letter from that city says : This show is turned to a good account for exhibition, as it is made a sales-room as well _a4 an exhibition. A large part of the stock lts changed hands within the past few days. very "coop has its price," and some of the fancy. stock is' exceedingly high. Just im agine how pleasant it must be to eat the eggs from`a pair of Houdans that cost $1,000. Several pairs are marked for sale—price, t.:260, $3OO and $4OO a pair. Judging from the prices attached to som4of the coops on ex hibitlap, it would be much less expensive to stock a farm with a throughbred herd of neat cattle than the same number of fancy bred chickens, ducks or, geese. There is a patent hatching machine on exhibition, price $2OO, warranted to bring forth three dozen chickens every three weeks. This 'machine attracts considerable attention from visitors, and all admire the, cunning and vigor of a young brood, only a fear days old. THE GRAPE IN THE UNITED STATES The grape is widhly diffused throughout the temperate climates, and, unlike the peach, the apple and the pear, is often, in its wild state, sweet and delicious. There arc in the tolled Slates, east of the Rocky Mountains, at least three varieties which markedly differ. The frost grape grows in many of the states ; it is of but little value.— The Scuppernong is found by the river sides in the Southern States. Then there, is the wild grape of Pennsylvania, New York—cast of the Hudson—and the New England States. This is not forind in all portions of these gates, but only in some localities. In each state and In many of its localities it shows a plainly per - ceptible difference. The well known Concord , grape is one of the best, if not decidedly the best, of the northern native grapes, unless the Catastba and Isabella are of this class, which. though certified to by some popular botanists, is a matter of grave doubt. The wild grape of eastern Massachusetts differs in some few re , epees from that of Western Massachusetts and Connecticut, iond eastern New York. Found in some woods, or beside some brooks, it is better than that found in other woods or beside some other streams. In some parts of Con necticut it is coarse, pulpy. large and cluster ed, in others small, sweet and juicy. Wher ever found it is generally purple, occasionally it is White or amber. The character of the berry depends, to no small extent, on the character of the soil in which the seed germinates. The seeds of fine foreign, br American. grapes are often planted by persons desirous of producing a berry that shall be large; mild flavored and luscious.— : But not in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases irk one thousand is the product different, in main eharactet-Isties, from those found wild in the neighborhood and very seldom a parti cle better. There seems, however, to be an exception to this, in the hybrid productions of Mr. Rog ers, Salem, Massachusetts. This gentleman has fructified the flowers of native grapes with the pollen from the Black Hamburg and has some fifty seedlings, differing from anything before known. It may be that the seed of the grape thus treated has a powernot posses sed by the seeds, of other grapes, and is not affected as they Are, by the soil, or it is possi ble that the soil in Mr. Rogers' garden natur ally produces a ,grape different from those common in the region around, or in any oth er portion of the_coimtry.- It is understood that those perisobs who have followed the Salem hortreultedst have not been as success ful as he has. With the exception of the Concord grape, and the seedlingS , of Mr. Rogers, and one or two others, the fine varieties cultivated, in the open air, in th*Ountry were chance pro ductions. Thule were found where birds had deposited the reeds, which, falling to the earth on propitiO t e soil, lad sprung up, and become Wiring vines. 11.eir superiority at. tractetlattention , as by children their sweet clusters were carded home. They were trans planted, propagated and became famous. It is doubtful if the grapei of the United States ewer equal those of Bechol. Bat many .varieties, now common, are not to be despis ed. If intriorto some of Europe they are palatable and wholesome. In time there may be new varieties prqdueed by the skill of the horfictthurist, or the kindness of mother earth, Which shall supersede those now cultivated, and give more eitisfirction to those who use aright. A. B. ant is worth while for all farmers every where to remesisber that thatuugh culture is better that three mortgages isa their farm. That bay is a good deal cheaper made in the atusimur *bait purchased in the winter. . . A, grtt tillrliOttlitut GEO. DUREOLTON : 0.. C. 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