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roots, one at the bottom in a natural way, and 

 one at the top. The result was extremely favor- 

 able to vigor and health, and the fruit was extra 

 fine. 



Forced fruits and vegetables. — It is said the 

 taste for varieties is increasing, and prices rather 

 on the advance for them in England. 



The early Olive Radish is the most popular 

 early kind now in England, having completely 

 displaced all others where a first-rate kind is de- 

 sired. 



The profits of Or.'^nge growing. — There has 

 been some discussion as to the relative profits of 

 fruit growing north, and orange growing in the 

 far south — the advantage being thought to be 

 with the southern oranges. We are inclined to 

 doubt this. The Semi-Tropical, of a recent date, 

 says : — 



" Mr. F. Hudnall has sold for shipment 35,000 

 oranges from his grove on the river opposite 

 Jacksonville, which averaged but one hundred 

 and thirty-eight to a barrel. Mr. Tuttle, owning 

 a grove of eleven-year-old trees near Mandarin, 

 has marketed seven hundred oranges, which for 

 quality cannot be excelled. One hundred select- 

 ed from the lot weighed over one hundred 

 pounds." 



V/hen the writer of this was in New Orleans, 

 last December, Florida oranges were being brought 

 in by the boat load, and were selling on the levee 

 for $1.50 per hundred, — and these were thought 

 to be good prices. The "grove" of Mr. Tuttle 

 is not given as to its size, — but if these seven 

 hundred are the first products of " eleven years," 

 a northern apple orchard will go a long way 

 ahead of this. If we have to wait so long, and 

 we think we have, what signifies $400, and from 

 this are to be deducted shipment to New Or- 

 leans. 



Here is another paragraph : — 



" Mrs. Bryan, an old resident on Lake Santa- 

 fee, Alachua county, Florida, has an orange tree, 

 planted by herself sixteen or seventeen years 

 ago, which produced last year five thousand 

 oranges." 



At a cent and a quarter a piece, it is not much 

 to wait sixteen years for. Better set out oak 

 timber. 



The Big Rambo Apple. — In regard to the note 

 of our Ohio correspondent, Ave find the following 

 in the Galena Press : — 



"J. H. Creighton, of Pataskala, Ohio, gives the 



supposed origin of the Big Rambo Apple which, 

 with many aliases, has grown to be a very popu- 

 lar fruit. He says that nearly sixty years ago 

 Wm. Cummins, of Pickaway county, Ohio, pur- 

 chased half a dozen of the trees from a sale, at 

 the residence of Mr. Bogart, in Fairfield county, 

 Ohio, and that these trees are still alive, and in 

 full bearing. His son recently informed the 

 writer that one of his neighbors took sprouts 

 from the roots of these trees which produced the 

 same kind of fruit, hence he concludes the 

 Bogart farm must have produced the original 

 seedling. 



" Now it seems to us there are just two serious 

 objections to this theory. First, if it proves any- 

 thing it would prove too much, namely : that all 

 the half dozen trees were seedlings, else why 

 should sprouts from these produce the same 

 fruit? Yet again if they were all seedlings, it 

 would also go far to prove that an apple was at 

 last found which perpetuates itself from the 

 seeds. We have grown more than a dozen 

 varieties of plums in our garden from root 

 sprouts which were true to the variety of the 

 grafted stock, including e\'cry one of the Gage 

 varieties, yet we know the trees from whose 

 roots the sprouts were taken were grafted stock, 

 some of them being grafted by us. How then 

 were the sprouts the same as the grafted stock? 

 Simply by deep planting, and striking roots 

 from the grafted stock so that the tree gets to 

 stand upon its own roots. All the sprouts from 

 these roots will be the same in kind as the grafts 

 ed stock. We never thought of mentioning this 

 before, because we supposed the process familiar 

 to all whether nurserymen or amateurs. It is 

 quite common in such cases to have two kinds 

 of sprouts from the roots of the same tree ; one 

 set with the same leaf as the tree, the other, that 

 of the seedling on which it was originally grafted." 



Large English Pears. — A correspondent of 

 the London Journal of Horticulture, thus braves 

 American pear growers as to the size of their 

 fruit : — 



"We have from time to time read in the news- 

 papers surprising accounts of the enormous size 

 pears and apples have reached in California and 

 other favored places in the United States, but I 

 had no idea that we possessed in England either 

 a climate or a soil sufficiently fertile to produce 

 pears rivalling the fruits of our brother Jonathan. 

 A few days ago I received from Carmarthenshire 

 a box of specimen pears of such unusual size 



