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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



[June, 



decent. When the writer of this saw it two years 

 ao-o half the plants at midsummer had not been 

 set out, for lack of hands, and dilapidation pre- 

 vailed among the fountains and statuary. Now 

 we see by the papers that the directors have or- 

 dered the gardener to "sell the extra plants, to 

 aid in paying expenses," and of course the gar- 

 dener resigns. It is a lesson for all of us as 

 well as Englishmen. 



Adaptation to Circumstances.— The great 

 art of gardening is not so much a great stock of 

 experience as in the ability to so profit by expe- 

 rience, as to adapt one's knowledge to varying 

 circumstances. In Great Britain with its moist 

 atmosphere, a gardener may have great success 

 in tree planting, while in the Atlantic United 

 States, he would have to vary his practice very 

 much to have the same success. So the one 

 who may succeed very well in the East would 

 fail utterly in the arid region of Central United 

 States. Each great district requires very dif- 

 ferent treatment in trees and plants. There is 

 Colorado, which on the levels has a much milder 

 winter climate than the East has, and yet trees 

 die very easily in comparison with those 

 which are here. Those who went there with 

 Eastern notions could not understand it, but 

 students of the Gardeners' Monthly have 

 learned that trees die in the Winter because the 

 moisture dries out of them, and not merely by 

 any low thermometrical range. As this knowl- 

 edge spreads in Colorado, planters are achieving 

 success. They protect them from the drying 

 winds and the drying sunlight in the Winter sea- 

 son, and they have all the success they desire. 

 The following extract from ^he Greely Tribune 

 is to the point : 



" Dr. Law thinks he will raise some peaches 



Productive Strawberries. — A paragraph 

 going the rounds of the newspapers says that 

 Mr. P. T. Quinn gathered from one acre of 

 ground on his farm at Newark, 5,487 quarts of 

 strawberries, which netted him in the New York 

 market, $626.60. This is about one quart to 

 every eight square feet, or, as usually one half 

 the ground under fruit culture is "headland," 

 alleys, or spaces on which there are no plants, 

 about a quart to every four square feet, and 

 then we have eleven cents a quart to the grower 

 " net" ; that is after all expenses of freight and 

 the great "middleman" have been deducted. 

 This is a pretty good showing, but it must be so 

 rare and exceptional an instance, that it will be 

 well to tell those who may be inclined to rush 

 into the strawberry growing on the strength of 

 these figures, that they must not expect to have 

 such luck as this very often. In Philadelphia 

 markets it is considered pretty good for even the 

 best strawberry growers to get five cents "net" 

 on the fruit they sell. 



The Glendale Strawberry. — This is a 

 new variety raised at Akron, Ohio, in 1871, and 

 with some reputation in the West. 



A Strawberry Protector. — It is a cheap 

 baked clay saucer, twelve to thirteen inches in di- 

 ameter, with a hole in the center. The advantages 

 claimed by its use are : A much larger crop ; 

 much finer berries ; cleaner, and free from sand 

 and dirt; mulching the ground; the retention 

 of the rains to the roots of the vines; killing the 

 weeds ; earlier ripening ; easier picking. They 

 are turned over as a Winter protection to the 

 vines. Persons who have used it pronounce it 

 the most important invention ever made in con- 

 I nection with strawberry raising. 



i The Jucunda Strawberry. — This variety 



this year, and certainly the present indications | seems to have many ups and downs. When 



are decidely favorable to. that idea. The trees 

 are several years old, and from the first the 

 limbs have been trained near the ground, that 

 they might the more easily be covered with 

 brush, leaves, and loose straw in the Fall. This 

 prevents the alternate freezing and thawing to 

 which they would be subject if unprotected, and 

 the tenderest twigs have passed through the 

 recent severe Winter uninjured, until now the 

 fruit buds are almost ready to burst. The brush 

 of course will not be entirely removed until all 

 danger from frost is over. Some standard apple 



first introduced from Europe, it was soon given 

 up as worthless. Mr. Knox, of Pittsburg, 

 gathered together all the varieties he could find 

 for experiment, and found it the best. With his 

 death, it in a manner disappeared from public 

 attention. Now we find the following report of 

 it in Mr. Roe's catalogue : 



" The more I see of this berry the more I am 

 impressed with its value. I doubt if it has been 

 much surpassed by any of the new and highly 

 praised varieties in localities where it succeeds. 

 As a market berry, where it can be raised, it 



trees have also passed tlirough several Winters has no rival. Its superb beauty and size, and 

 without killing down." rich color, make most berries look common hy 



