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{July, 



licdu'i' tlmt will boar valimhii' fniil. Il will 

 iindoubt«'(lly mako a irood, thick IumIi,'!' ; hut the 

 slow growth, I thniiLrht, mi^ht ho a uroat objec- 

 tion. I (lid not know that tlic oxporiinont had , 

 •ever been iriod, till last week, I found in this! 

 town a row of tho liushos, a liundrod or more, 

 that woro takon up fiftoon yoars ajjro and sot out 

 on the hanks of tho old ranal. Thoso bushes 

 wore very small when transplantod, hut are now 

 ten or twelve foot hiijh, with trunks, some of 

 them, I think, more than two inches in diameter. | 

 They stand in the track of the New Mystic ! 

 Valley Railroad, and are all to he cut down im- 

 Tuodiately. I have spoken for some of the wood, 

 and if you would like, will send you some of 

 the larirest samples, showinj; the rate of growth. ! 

 Tliey were set out by Mr. Josiah Curtis, of Xorth | 

 "Woburn, who still owns the land where they, 

 stand. I should like to see the experiment tried i 

 of raising from the seeds of the largest and best 

 herries. a lot of these shrubs, to he used for a j 

 hedge in cold, moist lands. Why may not a i 

 larger and better berr}' than any of the wild i 



varieties now produced be obtained in this w'ay? 

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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The First Georgia Peach.— They have a 

 rivalry down South, as to who should have the i 

 first ripe peach. Samuel Rumph, of Marshall- 1 

 Tille, one of the Vice Presidents of the Georgia | 

 State Hortiicultural Society, secured the honor 

 .this year wjth the Early Amsden, on the 18th of 

 ■ May. That part of Georgia grows Peaches for 

 Northern mai'kets, enjoying a monopoly till the 

 Maryland and Delaware orchards wake up to ' 

 their work, which is about the end of July, so ' 

 that the Georgia fruit-growers have a full six 

 weeks to work. i 



Growing <trape.s in Vineries.— Some years ' 

 ago, some attention was given to growing ' 

 Grapes on what is known as the extension sys- 1 

 tern ; that is, training a Grape vine so that in [ 

 time one plant filled a whole house. In the 

 hands of a good grower, we believe it is a 

 much better plan than the single rod sj-stem. 

 In hopes to recall attention to this good plan, 

 we give the following from an Irish paper on 

 the single vine in one large house at the Vice- 

 Regal Lodge, Dublin : 



"Taking it all in all, we are strongly of 

 opinion that the great vine at the Vice-Regal 

 Lodge, Phoenix Park, may fairly claim to be the 

 iinest example of a single vine grown on what is 



callod the oxionsion system to he found in those 

 i-lands, or, ])orhaps, outside of them. It is quite 

 possible, and very jirolialile, loo, that there are 

 other monster vines monopolizing entire houses, 

 and covering a larger space ; hut we doubt if the 

 Finchley or any other celebrity in its way i)re- 

 sents such a picture of sucees.->ful gra|)e culture 

 as does at this jiresent moment th«' large vine at 

 the Vice-Regal Lodge. The crop this year is, 

 perhaps, the heaviest it has yet matured, cer- 

 tainly the size and weight of the bunches is 

 beyond the average. Not a few of these would 

 turn the scale between three and four pounds, 

 and the weight of the general run of bunches 

 will he fully two pounds each. The number of 

 bunches which are strung along the lines of rod 

 with almost mathematical precision is some- 

 where about five hundred, and everyone of them 

 fit for the exhibition table. The heaviest 

 bunches are, as a matter of course, to be found 

 at the extreme end of the house, opposite to that 

 at which the vine is introduced, and from which 

 rods are conducted horizontalh^ the entire length 

 of over seventy feet. The large-sized bunches 

 illustrate the fact in grape-growing that size and 

 sable are not at the same time attainable ; to 

 have the former you must forego the latter to 

 some extent. Notably, too, the bunclfes which 

 crowd the hip or back portion of the roof, which 

 is less exposed to light and sunshine, have the 

 color laid on more decidedly than those which 

 are more fully exposed to these elements. 

 Nothing can be more robust, clean, and healthy 

 than the foliage. Altogether it is a triumph of 

 cultural skill and good management, and the 

 worthy and skilful chef who holds the horticul- 

 tural helm at the Lodge may well be congratu- 

 lated on the present aspect of his noble Black 



Hamburgh. '■ 



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NEW OR RARE FRUITS 

 AND VEGETABLES. 



SwAYZiE Pomme Grise Ai'ple.— Of this ex- 

 cellent Apple Dr. Burnett says in a recent 

 number of The. Canadian Hnriiculinrist : 



"We are led in the same connection to speak 

 of the Swayzie Pomme Grise, so named, we have 

 been told, from Col. Swayzie, an inhabitant of 

 the Niagara District. Beadle's Canadian Gar- 

 dener expresses the opinion that the apple 

 originated on this farm. The original tree was 

 blown down, the author says, during the Summer 

 of 1870, and was standing in an irregular clump 



