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THE CANADIAN HUKTICULTURIST. 



PRESERVING TIME. 



Said Mr. Baldwin Apple 



To Mrs. Bartlett Pear : 

 " you're growing very plump, madame. 



And also very fair. 



" And there is Mrs. Clingstoue Peach, 



So uiell'iwed by the heat, 

 Upon my word she really looks 



Quite good enough to eat. 



" And all the Misses Crab-apple 



Have bluslied so rosy red, 

 That very soou the fanner's wife 



'Jo pluck thein will be led. 



" Just see the Isabellas, 



They're growing so apace 

 That they really are beginning 



To get purple iu the face. 



"Our happy time is over. 



For Mrs. Green Gage Plum 

 Says she knows unto her sorrow 



Preserving time has come. 



" Yes," Slid Mrs. Bartlett Pear, 



" Our day is almost o'er, 

 And soon shall we be smothering 



In syrup by the score." 



And before the month was ended, 

 The fruits that looked so fair 



Had vanished from among the leaves. 

 And the trees were stripped and bare. 



They were all of them in pickle, 

 Or in some dreadful scrape ; 



" I'm cider," siglied the Apple ; 

 " I'm jelly," cried the Grape. 



Tliey were all in jars and bottles, 



Upon the shelf arrayed ; 

 And in their midst poor .Mrs. Quince 



Was turned to marmalade. 

 Nicholax. 



Rose Cheshunt Hybrid. — We have 

 here a specimen of this Rose, now in full 

 bloom, on the roof of a house from which 

 frost is excluded. I counted on it the 

 other day between 80 and 90 fully ex- 

 panded roses and about 200 buds, and we 

 have cut about four or five dozen blooms 

 off it already. The plant covers about 9 

 feet of roof, and is planted in a border, 9 

 inches wide and 3 feet long. — J. W. Long- 

 foot, Fidl Coxtrt, Tewkesbury, Eng. 



Moore's Early Grape has given bet- 

 ter satisfaction this season than heretofore. 

 The clusters and berries have been larger, 

 which would seem to indicate that it 

 improves with age. It is one of the few 

 that have been able to hold their foliage 

 throughout this very trying season. In 

 quality it is much like its parent, the 

 Concord. It is hardly equal to the Wor- 



den or Cottage, but it is one of the few 

 kinds that may be confidently relied on 

 for fruit, no matter how precarious the 

 season. Its earliness adds much to its 

 value. Champion is earlier, but much 

 inferior in quality.— E. Williams, Mont- 

 clair, N. J., in Rural New Yorker, 



Strawberries. — I tested the following 

 varieties of strawberries this season : Bid- 

 well, Sharpless, Downing, Crescent, War- 

 ren, Norman, Manchester, Big Bob and 

 Cumberland. As to productiveness, they 

 ranked thus : Crescent, Bidwell, Man- 

 chester, Downing, Cumberland, with not 

 much diff"erence between the others. I 

 think the Warren was the best flavored 

 berry. I was disappointed in the yield 

 of the Manchester. Ripe berries were 

 picked on the Bidwell, August 22nd, and 

 there were then some green ones. I 

 consider the Bidwell the best one in the 

 bed. The new black grape August Giant 

 mildews very badly with me. The vine is 

 five years old, and I don't believe there is 

 a bunch on it but what is mildewed.— O. 

 F. Fuller, Worcester Co., Mass., in 

 N. E. Homestead. 



Ammonia for Flowering Plant.s and 

 Strawberry Plants. — A \vriter in Lon- 

 don Gardener s Chronicle says : Last year 

 I was induced to try an experiment in 

 Chrysanthemum growing, and for this 

 purpose purchased one pound of sulphate 

 of ammonia, which I bottled and corked, 

 as the ammonia evaporates very rapidly. 

 I then selected four plants from my col- 

 lection, putting them by themselves, gave 

 them a teaspoonful of ammonia in a gallon 

 of water twice a week. In a fortnight's 

 time the result was most striking, for 

 though I watered the others with liquid 

 cow manure they looked lean when com- 

 pared with the ammonia watered plants, 

 whose leaves turned to a very dark green, 

 which they carried to the edge of the pots 

 iintil the flowers were cut. As a matter 

 of course the flowers were splendid. The 

 ammonia used is rather expensive, as I 

 bought it from a chemist's shop ; this year 

 I intend getting agricultural ammonia, 

 which is much cheaper. I have also tried 

 it on strawberries, with the same satisfac- 

 tory result, the crop being nearly double 

 that of the others ; it is very powerful, 

 and requires to be used with caution. 



