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This, with earliness and productiveness 

 would make it the best in existence, as 

 it opens the door to the alluring picture 

 of 2^^oJit so deftly held out to view. 1 

 think the Superb has other merits quite 

 as valuable. We want fruit to eat as 

 well as to sell, and should the Superb 

 do as well away from home, with other's 

 care, and remain healthy, I think it 

 will prove a valuable acquisition to our 

 list of good and really hardy red rasp- 

 berries. 



But the editor asks, " If it is so near 

 like the Montclair, what is the need of 

 it?" I reply, it is a more acid berry 

 than the Montclair, and some people 

 prefer the pleasant acidity of the one 

 to the rich sweetness of the other. 

 Tastes will differ as we all know, and 

 they must be gratified. 



BEST TREES FOR TRANSPLANTING. 



D. S. Curtis in the National Farmer 

 says : 



' ' Neither with the shade trees or orch- 

 ard trees is it best to select the thriftiest 

 or largest trees of the given age, when 

 taking them from the nursery, except it 

 be a few when the very best care and skill 

 is used in transplanting them, for the 

 rank, thrifty trees in the nursery are apt 

 to get a worse set-back and hindrance in 

 their growth, and are even more liable to 

 die from transplanting than those of the 

 same age which are smaller, with more 

 appearance of being stinted. 



** MULCHING. 



" There is one thing should be particu- 

 larly observed in all transplanting of trees, 

 whether for ornamental purposes or for 

 the orchard, and which is too generally 

 neglected, if not even too little known ; 

 that is, mulching — covering the ground for 

 several feet around the stalk or body of 

 the tree with straw, leaves, or other old 

 litter which may be at hand. The lack of 

 this sinii)le operation is the cause of much 

 loss in young trees. This mulching is 

 necessary both to preserve the moisture 

 below, and to prevent the soil becoming 

 too heated by the sun around the roots of 

 the young trees." 



ABUTILONS. 



These plants must be well known by 

 the majority of our readers who are fond 

 of flowers, and although they have been 

 appreciated by them, they would be still 

 more so if some of the newer sorts lately 

 Introduced had been tried. Some of the 

 older ones make, no doubt, very fine 

 plants, and are rapid growers, but then 

 this is all at the expence of the number 

 of flowers. We have had the pleasure 

 of seeing some of the dwarf growing 

 kinds lately, and I do not hesitate to 

 say that any one will be pleased with 

 them. Their peculiarity consists in 

 branching out close to the base, in bloom- 

 ing when only a few inches hijjh, and 

 in. giving two flowers from the axis of 

 each leaf. The following are splendid 

 varieties : 



Mary Milliar — Fine bold flower, very 

 large: a decidedly rosy pink color, dwarf 

 grower, and very free bloomer, much 

 more so than "Rosaflorm." 



Phillipine Welter — A German seed- 

 ling, not quite as dwarf as the above, 

 but a very good plant ; flowers, parasol 

 shape ; color, salmon buff. 



Purpureimi — The freest bloomer we 

 think ; color, purplish crimson, chang- 

 ing to lighter purple as the flower fades. 

 A very good plant. 



Pauline Braun — A fine, bold, well- 

 shaped flower, of a deep orange col or, with 

 a brilliant tint. 



Golden Gem — Flowers small but of a 

 very pretty lemon yellow color veined 

 rose. 



Abutilan Fraseri — Color, rich orange 

 scarlet, shaded with crimson ; a very 

 fine plant, raised in Baltimore. 



There are several more new varieties 

 imported from England of undoubted 

 merit, but any one will see from the 

 above list what a splendid variety can 

 be had these. 



We must, howevernot forget the now 

 old "Boule de Neige," which, as its name 



