Where you can't grow peaches, winter protection is necessary, even with the hardy varieties. They may pass a winter unharmed at 2o° below zero, but when you freeze a plant sixty nights and thaw it sixty days in February and March, it weakens and fails to do its best. Five minutes will cover a bush that will bear a peck, and when thus protected it is the surest of all the small fruits. It blooms after frost in spring, and usually all fruit is ripe before fall frosts injure, and with good cultivation or a generous mulch in June it will withstand any drouth. These plants, after one season's-growth, should all be laid up or down the row, and laid the same way every year. Use a spading or manure fork; take out earth enough each side the plant so that it will bend in the root; put your foot at the base, the fork on the top, and bear it to the ground ; place on it earth enough to hold it down ; lay the next plant on this one, and so proceed till the row is down ; then go over it and cover the main cane with earth. It is not usually necessary to cover all the branches; earth is the safest, handiest and best covering.

If they were bent down and weighted, and no mice in the field, a little marsh hay would be sufficient, but when you can insure a quart to the minute for the labor bestowed in covering, what is the use in making any further objection ? As soon as you plant your early potatoes, take a fork and lift the blackberry bushes up, work out the dirt from under them, press the soil firmly about the root so they will stand erect; they will not start enough to ■ be injured by frost. I have left them so long that they had budded to grow under cover, and when taken out were injured by a frost following; if taken out earlier they would have been tempered to the frosts. - George J. Kellog.

In Sicily lemon culture is 30 per cent. more profitable than orange culture; lemon trees are more prolific than orange trees. Prices for lemons are higher than for oranges.