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hay may be piled against the pit walls, and 

 a covering of hay and mats over the glass. 

 As the plants approach a flowering state 

 they may be removed to the sitting-rooms 

 or greenhouse ; and if the pit is not re- 

 quired very early for cucumbers or melons, 



some of the bedding plants may be intro- 

 duced, to afford cuttings ; or some of the 

 plants from the loft, shed, or outhouse, 

 may be exhumed from their hiding-place, 

 and her 3 receive rather better treatment. 



H. HOWLEIT. 



GTJMMINQ OF rEUIT TREES. 



Many of your readers owe you their gra- 

 titude, I hope not their pence as well,* for 

 your articles on " Profitable Gardening." 

 The pleasure of a hobby is always greater 

 when it pays. The garden is a hobby to 

 many, but when we find, from day 

 to day, it is all going out and nothing 

 coming in, we poor people cannot 

 stand it. This need no longer be the 

 case, for the Floral Wobld shows 

 how to make it pay. 



'> Well," you will say, " what is 

 all this about ?" I will tell you, 

 sir*. You have now began ' Fruit 

 Culture', and I have got a wrinkle 

 quite at your service. I have tried 

 it, sir, for three years and never once 

 failed. I can, if necessary, bring 

 some of the first gardeners in the 

 country to stand godfather to my 

 plan, though it ain't my men child, 

 but one I took to young, that is, 

 when it was joung, not me ; and 

 now witli your help we will set him up in 

 life, and let him try his own fortune, he will 

 soon have a very large connection. This 

 is, if ever he gets into the Floral 

 World, and I hope he will, and then if 

 he behaves well, all will patronize him. 



Great difficulty is found in preventing 

 the stone fruit-trees from "gumming" when 

 cut. They gum and bleed so much, that 

 often a very bad case is lot alone from fear 

 of the remedy being worse than the com- 

 plaint. A gardener cannot always have 



pots and pans containing one solution and 

 another in his hand, even if such would 

 stop the gumming, which many won't do, 

 If when a tree be cut the edge of the cut 

 be bevelled off, or rounded, the tree will 



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not bleed, no matter what time of the year 

 it be cut. Fig, a is the common cut, and 

 it will bleed ; Fig, b is my child, and it 

 won't bleed. The bark is cut off as a shoe- 

 maker makes a thick sole look like a thin 

 one. Now this is simple enough, if not 

 I'll try again, but remember this is the 

 true cut and fit. I have tried on branches 

 two inches thick at the spring, summer, 

 autumn, and winter, and have never had 

 gumming. Peaches, jilums, cherries, etc., 

 etc., are all safe with this plan. A. 



A NOTE ON PLANTING SHEUBBERIES, 



The last two winters having so thoroughly 

 proved what shrubs may be relied on as 

 hardy and fit for permanent effect, it 

 behoves planters to make notes of such, 

 and to use them in future rather than the 



• No, our subscriptions are received in ad- 

 vance , — Ed . 



more doubtful ones. The common laurel, 

 though cheerful-looking, cheap, and very 

 extensively planted, has proved to be much 

 less hardy than others which may be had 

 equally cheap. For instance, the Berberis 

 aquifolium will prove a mucli better thing 

 for covering the ground between the more 



