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and species and varieties are, as well, valuable for our gardening operations. The 

 Prunus triloba, from Japan, makes a grand show with its large double peach-colored 

 bloom, and the large double-flowering almond is exceedingly attractive. The dwarf 

 almonds, both white and rose, are too well known for a lengthy description, but a 

 place should always be assigned them in every collection. We reserve " the best 

 wine to the last." " Raid's weeping peach " is indeed a perfect beauty, needing no 

 artificial training, but in a natural manner, with a graceful curve, each branch repre- 

 sents an attraction which amply repays its owner a hundred fold for his care in its 

 behalf. We know of no " weeper," not even the much-extolled Kilmarnock willow, 

 that can surpass it." 



JIoiv to Train Toinntoes. 



Mr. Meehan thinks the easiest way to take care of Tomatoes is to train them to 

 stakes like bean poles, instead of having arbor, or tressel, or wires, or hoops. He 

 says : 



" These stakes need noj be over six feet high, and may be set about four feet 

 apart each way. As the plants grow, tie them up to the stakes ; but that will not 

 be required over half a dozen times during the season. Twenty plants thus treated 

 will, he thinks, yield as much fruit as double the quantity on any other plan, and in 

 quality, he declares, there is no comparison. The common field plan of leaving 

 Tomatoes to grow up as they list, spreading everywhere over the ground, may be, as 

 truck-growers say it is, the way in which the heaviest weight of fruit can be had in 

 proportion to the labor spent ; but in this way the fruit is more acid." 



Verfeci Roses. 



Peter Henderson (in the AgriculHirist), in allusion to the fact that all the good 

 qualities of fragrance, beauty, hardiness, and constant blooming, are not to be found 

 in one rose, quotes the words of a German neighbor, who came to him in great 

 irritation, and said, " I have so much drouble wid de ladies when dey comes to buy 

 mine rose; dey wants him hardy, dey wants him doubles, dey wants him mondly, 

 dey wants him fragrand, dey wants him nice gouler, dey wants him eberydings in one 

 rose. I have sometimes say to dat ladies : Madan, I never often sees dat ladies dat 

 was beautiful, dat was rich, dat was good tember, dat was youngst, dat was clever, 

 dat was berfection in one ladies. I sees her much not." 



To yet Tender Horse- Radish, 



An English gardener says : " It may not be generally known that if leaves or litter 

 be placed on the tops of horse-radish crowns, two feet or so thick, the plants grow 

 through them in the course of the summer, making small white roots the thickness of 

 one's finger, which are as tender as spring radishes, and much to be preferred to the 

 tough, stringy stuff usually supplied with our roast beef." 



Varieties of Currants, ' 



Andrew S. Fuller thus writes, in one of his numerous papers, about currants : 

 " Persons unacquainted with the different varieties are frequently puzzled to 



determine which to purchase. The Cherry is the largest red variety in cultivation ; 



it is a rank, vigorous grower, and requires extra care in order to secure a crop every 



