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opening of the next, and turn out tbe fruit in condition to market safely 

 in warm weather of the early summer. 



Canadian apples, similarly picked and packed, were consigned to 

 a different cold storage ; their wrappers were removed and holes cut in 

 the barrels for ventilation ; temperature fluctuated from 33° to 43°. 

 Most of the lot was ruined, and but few of the balance would stand up 

 on exhibition more than a week or 10 days. The lesson of this experi- 

 ence is obvious. — E. G. Osman, in "American Agriculturist." 



Pruning Grapes. 



Many experiments have been made under different conditions to 

 show the advantages of pruning the grape, where a proper medium is 

 observed between too light pruning and excessive cutting away. We 

 have seen a vineyard ruined in a single season by cutting away nearly 

 all the bearing shoots, the mistaken notion being held that they would 

 ripen better by letting in the sunlight. The leaves being mostly cut 

 off, the remainder nearly starved the fruit. The Missouri Experiment 

 Station tried pruning different degrees of the vine. The vines were 

 pruned from one bud to six buds, one portion not being pruned at all. 

 Another part of the vineyard was allowed to grow four canes fiom the 

 root, which were pruned to three feet long. The fruit subsequently 

 reached its full size. The grapes which were pruned to one and two 

 eyes had well-filled bunches, the berries being one third larger than on 

 the unpruned vines. The rot was much worse on the unpruned. There 

 is fully four times as much rot in the unsprayed vines as in those that 

 have been sprayed Country Gentleman. 



Luminous Flowers. — It has long been placed on record that the 

 daughter of Linniieus saw flashes of light, supposed to be phospho- 

 rescent, coming from fraxinella flowers. The list has been added to 

 occasionally, but not to a great extent. The nasturtium is said some- 

 times to present this phenomenon. Some sunflowers and the French 

 marigold have been included ; and Mr. Mauriceson, of the Golden Gate 

 park, San Francisco, states that the Australis^i poppy will frequently 

 send out flashes of light. What species of plant is intended by the 

 term Australian poppy ? — Meehan's Monthly. 



