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are quite green. I sent to St. C;ith:i- 

 rines' cork-factory for a barrel of dust, 

 but they sent cork-shavings. If they 

 would grind it up to dust, it would pay 

 grape-growers to buy it, as tough-skin 

 grapes will keep till after this, and our 

 best grapes are better quality than the 

 tough white Spanish grape. We brush 

 the bunches with a downy feather, and 

 it takes the dust off the grapes. I 

 syringe soap-water over my vines to 

 protect the leaves from the insects. 1 

 think it stops them some. Do you 

 know any remedy? I consider the 

 Champion grape not much account 

 here, only being early. The Council 

 give me power to get all the shade 

 trees on the street that are dead or ob- 

 jectionable. I have been going for 

 Lombardy poplar, abele, willow and 

 the locust The last is like a honey- 

 comb, eat out with borers. We have 

 had a planting-day in the spring. We 

 have set out over a thousand maples a 

 season. I have cut down poplars 

 eighteen inches through, making sev- 

 eral cords of wood, since I fii-st saw 

 them planted. It is not every town 

 that heats its town hall with trees 

 planted by its citizens. 



W. C. Searle. 



EARLY RIPENING GRAPES. 

 I would like to see the names of 

 about twelve of the best early grape 

 vines in the Candian Horticulturist. 

 jNIy Concord gra])es did not ripen last 

 year. I think that if they would ripen 

 before the Concord they would answer 

 here. I bad ripe grapes on one vine, 

 and fruit on three that did not get ripe. 



H. P. 



Moore's Early, Early Victor, Jessica, 

 Hei-bert, Lady, Massa.soit, Worden, 

 Delaware, Champion (but of poor 

 ({uality); Janesville (also poor quality), 

 h^arlv Dawn (very subject to mildew), 

 Hal ford Prolific.— Ed. Can. Hort. 



PROPAGATION OF THE WEIGELA. 



To THK EDITOK OF THK CANADIAN HORl ICULl UUIST. 



Would you kindly give in the next 

 issue the plan pursued in ]n*opagating 

 the Weigela Rosea, and oblige, 



Yours truly, R. M. 



You will probably succeed best by 

 largering the young shoots of last sea- 

 son's growth. Peg them down in the 

 spring, burying the bent portion deep 

 enough in the soil to keep it moist, and 

 remove from the parent plant in the 

 fall or spring following. It can be 

 propagated from cuttings of the young 

 wood under a hand-glass, or better from 

 cuttings of the half ripened wood taken 

 off in summer and rooted in a frame. 



PACKING CELERY. 



Can the Editor, or any reader of the 

 Horticulturist ^ give a recipe for pack- 

 ing celery for winter use ] 1 had about 

 sixty heads taken up and buried in 

 sand, in the cellar, to about the same 

 depth as they stood in the ground. 

 They took root and did finely for about 

 two months ; then they wilted at the 

 top and began to decay. The decay 

 ran all the w^ay to the root, following 

 the two centre leaves. This was my 

 first experience, and not very success- 

 ful at that. G. H. F. 



English Sparrows. — At the Michigan 

 horticultural meeting several fruit growers 

 told us that the English sparrows were 

 rapidly bringing grief to the farmers and 

 fruit growers. It was the old story of de- 

 structiveness and fighting proijensities. And 

 now we notice in an excnance that at Mt. 

 Vernon, 111., a gentleman had twenty acres 

 in wheat, from which he expected a fourth 

 of a crop, the heads having every appear- 

 ance of promising such a yield. He resolved 

 to cut it for seed, and sent some persons to 

 gather it. They returned soon after and 

 re|M)rted that there was not a grain of wheat 

 in the field, the sparrows having eaten the 

 entire crop. — Prairie Farmer. 



