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GARDENING. 



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regulating of the shoots of the dwarfs is 

 better done now than in winter. 



Apples.— Look out for caterpillars. It 

 is a disgrace to the owner of a garden to 

 have branches of his apple trees here and 

 there brown or defoliated with broods of 

 caterpillars. Brush oft' or burn the webs 

 as soon as noticed, or cut out the branch 

 and tread upon the worms. From this 

 on lots of worm\- and deformed fruit will 

 fall from the trees, and allow the worms 

 to escape into the ground to pvipate, to 

 continue the supply of vermin. Rake up 

 and remove all such fruit to the bum pile. 

 It is too green to tempt the pigs. 



Peaches.— Prop up overladen branches 

 in time, else a wind and rain storm may 

 come along and break them. Regulate 

 the growth of the young trees by a little 

 timely shortening 



PLrMS.--Every few days rake up the 

 rotten and stung ones that fall to the 

 ground, and throw them on the bum pile. 



M.\DEiRA Nuts or English W,\l.nuts 

 (Jiiglans regin) are perfectly hard3' and 

 grow well, and bear abundantly at Do- 

 soris. During the first fortnight or three 

 weeks of July the young nuts, just beforcr 

 the stone sets, are in fine condition for 

 pickling. Walnut pickles, although much 

 used in Europe, are not often "put up" 

 here, more's the pity, for they are a capi- 

 tal relish. At this time of year walnut 

 trees are apt to b come infested with cat- 

 erpillars; look out for them, and strip 

 them off" and destroy them. Aside from 

 their unsightliness, they speak ill for the 

 interest the owner takes in his garden. 



Grape Vines —If you haven't bagged 

 any of your grapes, get a lot of one-pound 

 and two»pound manilla paper bags, such 

 as grocerymen use for sugar, etc., and put 

 a bunch into each bag; fasten the bag 

 with a pin. This is a partial saving of 

 the grapes from mildew and rot, and a 

 complete one from birds and sun-scald. 

 Break oft" at a joint all the shoots that 

 are running beyond bounds. 



Strawberries being past, now is the 

 time to lay the foundation fornext year's 

 crop. Plants set out last spring will bear 

 next summer; those that were set out 

 last fall bore a crop this summer, and if 

 kept over for another year will bear a fine 

 cro]) rext summer, but all other beds 

 should be cleared away, and the ground 

 prepared for other crops. As old planta- 

 tions don't make runners readily, but 

 young ones do, spare not the ol I; the 

 young ones will give you runners enough. 

 We have cleared out the mulching from 

 between the rows and unfastened the 

 ground with a prong hoe so that the 

 runners can root into it readily and make 

 fine well rooted plants. The plants pro- 

 duce strings of runners having two or 

 three plants on each, but it is well not 

 only to cut out the weakest runners alto- 

 gether, but to cut oflf the ends of the run- 

 ners retained, leaving only one sprout to 

 each runner. In this way we get fine 

 plants early in the season. For homeuse 

 there is no need to pot them; just assoon 

 as the plants are well rooted lift th(m 

 with a trowel, preserving a ball to each, 

 and transplant them at once. But as 

 there is no nccil of lettingall the kept-over 

 ]j:it(.li uo Ici iii.ikingnninerstogive plants 

 Icir .1 ticsh |)I.iTil;ition, all rows not re- 

 (|iiirc(l Uiv (liis ])iirp )se should bekept rig- 

 idly tree from runners. Strawberry plants 

 love good, rich ground inclined to being 

 moist, and if set out early, in August or 

 September, they will become well rooted 

 lufore winter sets in, hence not be likely 

 to he heaved l.y frost. 



L ri;i( \N i s— We like to make our red 

 curr.iiit icily ;is soon as the currants are 

 ripe (the end of June or first f)r |uly here); 



the jelly is clearer and firmer, and needs 

 less cooking. For jam, however, we have 

 to wait a week longer till the raspberries 

 get more plentiful, as we use both kinds 

 together. But this doesn't take all of the 

 currants; they last for a month, being 

 used for dessert, stewing, etc. V\ e also 

 use white currants for jelly, and get aless 

 acidulous preserve from them than from 

 red currants, and the jelly is of a fine 

 bright color too. In red currants, both 

 with pickers and cooks, large size is a lead- 

 ing consideration, and it is the .same for 

 market. The local demand for fine cur- 

 rants, even in this country village, is so 

 good that next to strawberries they are 

 regarded as the most profitable garden 

 crop our gardeners grow. We also grow 

 and use a good many blackcurrants; they 

 are ripe about the middle of July. The 

 berries are picked all of a size and singly, 

 and the old calyx husk on the end and the 

 stalk are removed. In making jam of 

 them we use them alone. This dissolved 

 in water makes a fine drink for sore 

 throat or a cold. Mixed with raspber- 

 ries they make a nice table preserve for 

 those who like black currants. We also 

 can them. These are used in winter for 

 dessert, also for pies. In growing cur- 

 rants of all kinds we are very particular 

 to mulch the ground under the bushes 

 very well to save the fruit from the grit 

 thrown up by rain. 



GoosEnERRiES.— With the same treat- 

 ment as currants get the commoner vari- 

 eties bear well here, but the finer Euro- 

 pean sorts refuse to be comforted with us. 

 They begin to ripen after tbe middle of 

 July, but we begin to use them in June 

 from the time thej' are little more than 

 half grown no matter how green and 

 acidulous they may be. They are cooked 

 enough to soften them, then pressed 

 through a sieve to remove the seeds and 

 skins; and the pulp thus secured is sweet- 

 ened with sugar and firmed with gelatine, 

 and shaped in a mould. It is served with 

 soft custard or whipped cream. For jam 

 ripe berrits onlj' are used, and the red ones 

 are preferred. And we can them for pies 

 in winter. 



Raspberries.— No sooner are the straw- 

 berries over than these becomeabundant. 

 Caroline, yellow, and Cuthbert, red, are 

 our stand-bys. Aside from using them as 

 dessert we make jelly of them, also jam, 

 and mix them with red currants for jam, 

 and also can them. We had a wire-net- 

 ting fence around our strawberry jjatch, 

 with a gate and lock on it; as soon as the 

 strawberries were done we removed the 

 fence to the raspberry plantation, where 

 it does duty in the same way, and when 

 the raspberries are over we will remove 

 it to the blackberry patch. It's wonder- 

 ful what a protection that temporary 

 wire-netting fence is. If the young canes 

 are hanging down tack them up loosely 

 to save them from getting trampled on or 

 broken; if there are too many ot them to 

 a stool cut out the weake^t ones, but 

 don't cut those you intend to keep over. 

 Andassoonasthecrop of fruit is all gath- 

 ered cut out the old canes to give the young 

 ones more air and room to ripen up in. 



Blackberries ripen after raspberries, 

 and are one of the richest and most desir- 

 able of berries. Look out forthcir young 

 canes— they are so brittle at the neck. 

 Stick them up or tie them up out of your 

 way. Where they are over-numerous 

 thin them out, and dig them out of the 

 pathways or neighboring beds, for they 

 have a tendency to wander considerably 

 away from home. 



Show of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society at Boston, headed the list in all 

 the classes. It was a clear case of being 

 ahead of all the others in size, beauty, 

 flavor, and finish. David Allan. 



The Marshall Strawberry as e: 

 ibile.l at the recent Rose. -md St rawbcri 



CflESTNUT TREES. 



H. F., Foxburg, Pa., writes: "Please 

 inform me of the best way to procure 

 chestnut trees. If by graft state best root 

 stock and age. I have a satisfaetorv old 

 tree." 



Chestnut trees are very easily raised 

 from seed. The nuts should be sown in 

 fall, or kept in moist sand or earth over 

 winter and sown in spring. But if you 

 wish to raise the finer varieties, do so by 

 grafting cions of them on to two year 

 old seedling plants of the American chest- 

 nut. If you want, however, only a few 

 plants you can buy them so cheaply from 

 the nurserymen advertisingin Gardening 

 and have a three or four years' start in 

 the growth of the trees that it will hardly 

 pay you to graft them for yourse f. 



The Vegetable Garden. 



THE VEOETflBLE GARDEN. 



For a week or more we have had 

 abundant r ins and everything looks 

 fresh and vigorous, and vegetables are 

 of fine quality and in great abundance 



Globe artichokes are in season. As 

 soon as you cut oft" the best heads cut the 

 stem back to the ground to induce the 

 plant to throw up more. 



Jerusalem Artichokes. — Wherever 

 they are too thick pull up plants enough 

 to make the patch thin enough. If very 

 thick they don't tuber well. 



Asparagus.— Let it grow and keep it 

 clean. Hand-pick the beetles, or spray 

 them with kerosene emulsion or weak 

 Paris green water, or when the plants 

 are wet with dew dust them with Slug 

 Shot or fresh air slacked lime 



Broad Beans are in season. Now for 

 beans and bacon. In cooking be sure you 

 peel the beans. As it isn't a hot weather 

 plant we needn't bother about succes- 



Snap Beans. — If sown a little and often 

 an iminterrupted succession is had from 

 June till late October. At this time of 

 year they are a seven weeks' cro|), that is 

 Irom date of sowing till time of picking; 

 when the nights get cooler they may take 

 eight weeks. We sow weekly till the end 

 of August. 



Lima Beans.— If they haven't caught 

 hold tie them up to the poles. Stopping 

 the vines doesn't make them bear any 

 earlier. 



Beets. — About the end of this month 

 put in a large sowing. If the weather is 

 moist early in August we also sow some 

 more lest the July sowing may get too 

 large before November. 



Brussels Sprouts should all be planted 

 by this time. But south of New York 

 don't hesitate to plant yet. 



CAHBAGE.—The wet weather has rushed 

 j'oung cabbage plants so fast that even 

 our early Jime sowings are in danger of 

 being too early for winter heads. Finish 

 planting as soon as possible, and firm the 

 ground well about the roots. Remember 

 that Savoy cabbage is better than Flat 

 Dutch or Drumhead for table use. 



Cailh-lower.- Plant out for fall use. 

 And sow seed of Snowball or Erfurt for 

 late fall or to lift and heel into frames for 

 heading in winter. 



Carrots.— Get in your main sowingfor 



