New England Homestead: The early black cranberry is the popular early
berry on Cape Cod. It escapes the early frosts and so the crop produces
better prices. A larger, lighter and longer berry is the James P.
Howley, which is being introduced in Essex county. The latter variety is
not so early as the former, but bears well, and in the protected bogs
along shore is frequently preferred.

Northwest Farmer: Mr. Edison Gaylord, of Floyd county, Iowa, advocates
setting trees in a leaning posture, to prevent them from being killed by
the combined effects of the wind and sun on their southwest side. Prof.
J.L. Budd, of the Iowa Agricultural College, says, in confirmation of
Mr. Gaylord's view, he saw hundreds of the finer cherry and plum trees
in Russia planted at an angle of forty-five degrees towards the one
o'clock sun. He says that only for a short time will trees thus set have
an awkward appearance.

The most convenient boxes in which to start seeds and cuttings are those
known as "flats" among gardeners. A good size for the kitchen garden in
which to start tomato seeds, etc., or for the ordinary conservatory, is
two feet long, sixteen inches wide, and three inches deep. These shallow
boxes are easy to handle, take up little room, and allow of much better
drainage to the young plants. Salt or soap boxes can be easily cut up
into three or four boxes three inches deep. Neat leather handles on each
end of the box will increase its handiness. The bottom is better if made
of several pieces of board, as the cracks insure good drainage.

James Vick's plan of catching slugs is as follows: "Take some pieces of
slate, or flat stones, or flat pieces of tin, and lay them about in the
garden among the plants, distributing them very liberally; just at