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ferous. In many instances it is allowed 

 to injure itself through bearing too 

 many flowers ; if left to itself there 

 will be a bloom from every eye, and 

 there is hai'dly any way of preventing 

 this, except cutting off the bloom. The 

 shoots should be cut well into the main 

 stems, and this will induce fresh shoots 

 to push forth, and it is these which, 

 befoie long, bloom again. At the same 

 time, next year's crops must be seen to, 

 and we find that the best way to provide 

 for these is not to depend wholly on 

 spur pruning, but to lay in a number 

 of young shoots, which always spring 

 from the base of healthy plants, and in 

 the winter time some of the oldest of 

 the branches may be cut away to make 

 room for these. Sometimes these young 

 shoots may be 10 feet or 12 feet in 

 length, but this is none too long, as in 

 spring they will break regularly, and 

 prodtice a host of massive gorgeous 

 blooms. Out of doors the only profit- 

 able way of growing this rose is against 

 a wall where it will have plenty of head 

 room. In dwarf or standard form in a 

 bed it is lost. As a natural rambling 

 bush it would be better, but against the 

 walls of mansions, villas, cottages, 

 churches, it is at home. A well-drained 

 bed, with ple)ity of rich soil and a never- 

 failing supjily of moisture, are its only 

 wants tliroughout the season ; and 

 should green fly appear at any time, 

 liberal syringing will at all times dispel 

 it. — J. Mum, in The Garden. 



Note by the Editor. — Our readers 

 must not forget that the climate of 

 England is much milder than that of 

 Canada. This beautiful rose will not 

 endure our winters without protection, 

 or it may be carefully taken up and 

 heeled in where it will not be exposed 

 to much frost, and planted out again in 

 the spring. 



FRUIT GROWERS' REPORT FOR 1883. 



The Rural New Yorker in noticing 

 this rejjort of our association speaks in 

 very commendatory terms of the course 

 pui'sued by the Directors in having a 

 full report of the discussions taken 

 down by a short-hand writer. The 

 Rural New Yorker says : — 



It is a well-pi'inted book of 415 

 pages, containing the pi'oceedings of the 

 annual, winter, and the summer meet- 

 ings of the Fruit Growers' Society, giv- 

 ing, in full, not only the papers read 

 at those meetings, but what, to us, is 

 of a great deal more practical value, a 

 full verbatim report of the discussions. 

 Many a man attending those meetings, 

 who could not under any circumstances 

 be induced to write an essay, has some 

 little bit of practical experience, which 

 can be caught by a reporter, that is 

 worth more to persons who wish to 

 learn than some long-winded essays, 

 and we think our Canadian friends very 

 wise in having these discu.?sions so 

 carefully reported. No more earnest 

 or wide-awake body of fruit-growers 

 can be found than those in Ontario, 

 and no country does more for its agri- 

 cultui'al class than that Province, as it 

 prints these "volumes, and gives the 

 society a large sum with which to pay 

 its expenses. This volume also con- 

 tains a full report of the ^•isit of Mr. 

 Chas. Gibb to Russia, and of his re- 

 searches among the Russian apples, 

 together with illustrations and descrip- 

 tions of the most pi-omising for intro- 

 duction into the colder portions of 

 Canada. Eighty-three pages are de- 

 voted to the entomological report, con- 

 taining illustrations and descriptions of 

 insects injurious to the various economic 

 crops of the country, and the best 

 known methods of controlling them. 

 This complete work is among the 

 things furnished to every member of 

 the association, whether he be a resident 

 of Canada or not. 



