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THK CANADIAN HOETICDLTURIST. 



STRAWBERRY CULTURE. 



A correspondent asks how two crops j 

 of strawberries can be raised from a [ 

 plantation in three years. 



Ans. — Strawberry plants should be 

 set in the Spring, say in the month of 

 A})ril. During this season they will 

 be cultivated and kept clean. Next 

 vear the plants will yield a crop of 

 strawberries, and if well fertilized and 

 kept free from weeds, the same planta- 

 tion will yield another crop the follow- 

 ing year. As soon as this crop is 

 harvested plough under. It is very 

 seldom that the same plantation will 

 yield a profitable crop for more than two 

 years. Another plantation should have 

 been made in the meanwhile, which 

 will be bearing fruit when the old one 

 fails. 



ISIay I ask The HarticuUurist, to j 

 state, if a young grape vine planted j 

 against, and trained up a fruit tree 

 which has a trunk four inches in dia- 

 meter at the base, will injure the tree'] 



R. 

 Toronto, January 28. 

 J^ys. — In process of time the foliage 

 of the grape vine, unless carefully 

 pruned every year, will so cover and 

 keep from the light the leaves of the 

 tree, as to impair its health and destroy 

 its value as a fruit tree. By proper 

 pruning the grape vine may be kept 

 within such bounds as not to injure the 

 tree to any serious extent, and yet in 

 so much as it keeps air and light from 

 the tree, by so much is it injurious. 



REMEDY FOR PEAR-BLIGHT. 



A correspondent of the Fruit Re- 

 corder writing from Kelley's Island, 

 says : " My remedy published in Fruit 



Recorder some years since, still con- 

 tinues a specific with me, and with all 

 who use it as far as I know. I have 

 not had a diseased tree since I have 

 used it. Those here who neglect to use 

 it have blight. . . . Certain it is, 

 if the trees are washed with strong 

 copperas water from about the 20th of 

 May to 1st or later in June, no pear 

 tree will have blight. Costs as near 

 nothing as may be." A. K. 



We presume he means sulphate of 



OUR [''AILURES. 



Mr. Editor, — A little you've sur- 

 prised me by the notice that a new fea- 

 ture in the management of your nice 

 little pei-iodical is, that each director is 

 expected at least annually to add to its 

 contents. 



It appears to me. Sir. that you have 

 a good deal of brass in your constitu- 

 tion. I take it, that as the paid Editor 

 of our journal, it is your duty to sit and 

 write, and write sir, till you take root, 

 and leave us puir bodies alane ; but 

 rather than have words about it, we'll 

 make a virtue out of a .seeming neces- 

 sity, as best we can. 



Not long ago, in mid-ocean, on a 

 beautiful Sabbath morning, a goodly 

 crowd of emigrants had assembled for 

 divine service on the deck of the good 

 steamship Montreal bound for Quebec. 

 Some there were full of glee and youth- 

 ful hope ; some too sad and sorrowful ; 

 and when, as with one voice, they 

 joined in our grand old paraphrase, 

 " God of Betliel,' they wei)t when 

 they remembered Zion. One interest- 

 ing girl I noticed wiping the tear from 

 her old father's face, who was no doubt 

 thinking of loved ones left behind. 

 I didn't hear her words, but I could 

 fancy them, and you also, Mr. Editor, 

 will have but to fancy them too, till 



