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flowers are red and yellow, and con- 

 tinue all Summer. It is also very 

 fragrant. Lo nicer a sempervircns 

 (Scarlet Honeysuckle) ; the flowers 

 of which are of a beautiful scar- 

 let, but inodorous. This is a strong 

 rapid grower, and very handsome. 



In some future number we hope to 

 give a plate of Lonicera Halleana 

 Hall's Honeysuckle), which is one of 



the best bloomers of all, continuing 

 from July to December ; its flowers 

 are a pure white, changing to yellow, 

 and very fragrant. It is a strong 

 grower, and holds its leaves until 

 January, so that it may almost be 

 called evergreen. Perhaps of the 

 whole list, no variety can be more 

 confidently recommended for general 

 cultivation than this one. 



SEASONABLE HINTS FOR FRUIT GROWERS. 



'T'~^HE fruit season of i88g is close 

 J. upon us, a time of hurr}' and 

 of hard work for fruit growers, and, 

 of late years, a time of small returns 

 for labor and money invested. Many 

 a man who has taken up fruit culture 

 for profit, without capital and with- 

 out a knowledge of the business, has 

 utterly failed ; and even some more 

 experienced fruit growers, owning 

 large orchards of apple trees, have 

 found them so unproductive, or else 

 have met with such misfortunes in 

 the disposal of the crops, that they 

 have become discouraged, and openly 

 declare that apple culture is no 

 longer profitable. Some have even 

 gone so far as to dig out their orch- 

 ards, although they consisted of 

 choice varieties of fruit trees in the 

 prime of life. 



Now, we claim that this is a seri- 

 ous blunder, and that, properly 

 treated and economically managed, 

 the apple orchard will average a far 

 better return for the money invested 

 than any other farming crop which 

 could possibly be grown upon the 

 same quantity of land. 



One great obstacle in the way of 

 successful orcharding is the gather- 

 ing of the crop. Handling every 

 apple, one by one, twice over, first 

 in gathering from the tree, and then 

 in assorting, is very expensive work 

 in a large orchard, as the writer 

 knows to his cost, and usually a large 

 quantity is ruined by falling, before 

 the work is completed. Now, if we 

 can find some more rapid way of 

 gathering our crop in the busy- 

 months of September and October, 

 an important step toward turning the 

 scale in the way of profit would be 

 taken. 



On page 197 of vol. xi. allusion 

 was made to a Yankee invention for 

 gathering apples, and, since the ap- 

 paratus received favorable notice at 

 the last meeting of the Western 

 New York Horticultural Society, we 

 have thought best to draw attention 

 to it in these columns. At that 

 meetmg it was stated that from six 

 to eight acres of orchard could be 

 gathered with it in a week, and that 

 five men would gather 200 barrels 

 per day. The great fear we had was 



