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best way I can manage to dispose of my apple crop at a profit. 

 Without an evaporator I should think I was losing a considerable of 

 the benefit of my orchard, and in hard years for selling green fruit 

 it is quite a relief to have such a resource for disposing of surplus 

 and unmarketable fruit and putting it in good shape to keep for a 

 better sale. — Phineas Whittier, before State Fair Fruit Growers' 

 Conventioyi. 



EXHIBITING PLANTS. 



This matter of exhibiting plants is a very important one, and it is 

 our intention to try and explain how window plants should be pre- 

 pared for exhibition. In the first place, the pot in which the plant 

 is growing must be clean. Not only the sides but the inside of the 

 top rim and the bottom. This applies to the saucer as well. The 

 earth in the pot should be entirely free from weeds, and all stones 

 and other matter should be carefully removed. The pot should be 

 filled to within one-half to three-quarters of an inch of the brim, 

 according to the size of the pot, as it looks badly to have the pot 

 heaping full, or on the other hand, not over half filled with earth. 

 The plant itself should be erect and symmetrical, with all the broken 

 branches and dead leaves carefully removed. If the plant be a 

 climber, it should be trained either on a plant stake or trellis. 



To make a plant s\'mmetrical it is necessary to turn the pots often 

 as they grow in the window, as, if the pot is left for any length of 

 time in one position and not moved, the plant will become one-sided, 

 that is, it will grow toward the light. Of course, where plants like 

 ivies are trained cspeciallj' for a window, to be seen from the out- 

 side, the case is different, but this is one of the exceptions. 



It was only the other day that the writer saw a window of plants 

 which on all accounts was probably as fine a collection as one often 

 sees, withUhe exception that the pots were covered with a thick 

 green mould which destroyed what would otherwise have been the 

 perfection of window gardening. It is these little points which 

 make up the perfect window, and whether one intends to exhibit or 

 simply to grow flowers for home decoration, these little essentials 

 should be attended to. Have the pots clean, turn the plants often, 

 take ofl^ all dead leaves, and by observing all the other little matters 

 mentioned, although they may seem insignificant details, the desired 

 effect will be obtained, namely, a beautiful window of plants. 



