368 THE GARDENER. [Aug. 



juveniles need have no fear of growing Clirysantliemiinis as good as 

 any they read of, if they are not pushed for time nor particular to 

 quantity of flowers. Wm. Hinds, 



Child EVALE Lodge, Liverpool. 



[We think our correspondents have now sufficiently disclosed their views of 

 then- respective practices as to plunging. — Ed.] 



GRAPES SETTING. 



Ix your valuable paper for July, your correspondent " Subscriber " 

 attributes his Grapes not setting to their hanging over water ; here 

 there is an instance to the contrary. 



We have a good many of that shy-setting Vine, the Cannon Hall 

 Muscat ; and on one Vine carrying a good crop there is a bunch hang- 

 ing directly over an evaporating trough fixed on the pipes, the end of 

 the bunch being about 3 inches from the water when the trough is 

 full ! I was surprised to find every berry had set on that bunch, while 

 the others on the same Vine had set much more thinly — in fact, so thin 

 that they required very few berries cutting out. The trough was full 

 of water while the Vines were blooming. I may further say that I tried 

 one of the same variety with the syringe when in bloom, giving it a 

 slight dewing twice a-day. The result is, small berries without seeds, 

 not above a dozen swelling on a bunch, while the others in the same 

 house are all doing well. 



I do not adopt the " dry- atmosphere system." The only difference 

 I make is withholding the syringe, damping the floors, and keeping 

 the evaporators full as usual, thereby getting a good set. A. W. 



THE CULTIVATION OF HARDY FRUITS. 



{Continued from page 320.) 

 CURRANTS. 

 It may appear to some almost superfluous to enter upon a subject which, as 

 many suppose, is so well understood as the cultivation of Currants. Like the 

 Gooseberry, treated of in our last paper, Currants are very extensively cultivated, 

 being found growing in almost every garden from the largest to the smallest. 

 Their cultivation is very simple ; indeed few people who know anything of garden- 

 ing would be willing to confess that there is anything of mystery in their manage- 

 ment. That there is any mystery connected therewith we will not argue, but we 

 think few will deny but that one man or other excels in their cultivation all 

 others of his acquaintance. This may in some instances be attributed to better 

 soils and finer positions, but in many cases it is the result of better management 

 upon the part of the cultivator. Seeing this to be the case, we purpose giving a detail 



