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inatis. If he wishes to take up a floral 

 hobby, and make a collection of choice 

 varieties, he can find no class of j^lants 

 that possesses greater interest than 

 these. The varieties are liardy. They 

 climb from four to twelve or more feet. 

 .Some bloom in early spring, some in 

 summer, and others continuously. In 

 siie, the flowers range from two to ten 

 inches in diameter. They are single 

 :ind double, and vary greatly in shape 

 of })arts. The colors are from white, 

 tlirough delicate tints of blue, lavender, 

 and wine coloi-s, up to the most gor- 

 geous of purples, with a great variety 

 of sliadings. The vines, if given a low 

 support of some kind, will soon cover 

 it with a sheet of flowers, or they may 

 be laid flat upon the ground and pegged 

 down to form the most effective of 

 bedding plants. We have not seen 

 them tried in window or balcony gar- 

 dening, but have no doubt that they 

 will be found among the most satis- 

 factory climbing plants for this use. 



TRANSPLANTING. 



There is a principle in transplanting 

 cabbage and other succulent plants 

 which is unknown, or overlooked by 

 many parties. They seem of the opinion 

 that the sooner a plant is reset after 

 being taken from the seedbed, the more 

 sure it is to live. A moment's thought 

 will show the fallacy of this idea, if it 

 does not a little practice will. 



The plant gets its supply of moisture 

 and sustenance from the soil by means 

 of numerous small mouths at the ex- 

 tremities of fine rootlets. When the 

 plant is removed from its seedbed, 

 more or less of these are of necessity 

 broken, and the evaporation is con- 

 tinually going on from its leaves more 

 or less rapidly, according to the degree 

 of heat and sunlight it is made to 

 stand. If transplanted at once, it fol- 

 lows that the plant must of necessity 

 wilt badly, and if the weather is hot 



and soil dry it may never survive. If, 

 however, on being removed it has its 

 roots "puddled" in muddy water, 

 and is then laid in a cool, moist place, 

 in from twelve to forty-eight hours 

 numerous small white rootlets will be 

 formed, the leaves will stiffen up and 

 every energy of the plant is set at re- 

 covery. In other words, the plant is 

 convalescent, and if given half a chance 

 for its life will commence growing with 

 renewed vigor. For these reasons, 

 plants which have been well packed 

 and transported considerable distances 

 by express will often wilt less on set- 

 ting, and start to growing sooner than 

 those which are reset at once when 

 taken from the seedbed. — Raleigh, 

 North Carolina, Farmer. 



BOOK NOTICES. 

 Insects Injurious to Fruits. — 

 This work, by William Saunders, F. R. 

 S. C, illustrated with 440 wood cuts, 

 has long been needed by the fruit- 

 growers of America. As the years 

 pass on the insect enemies that prey 

 upon our trees become more and more 

 serious in their depredations. This 

 book will make our fruit-growers 

 acquainted with those insects which 

 prey u[)on their trees and fruit, and 

 wdth the means of combating them. 

 The first part of the work treats of the 

 insects injurious to the apple ; first, 

 those that make their attacks upon the 

 roots, then those that prey upon the 

 trunk, and those that confine them- 

 sel ves to the branches ; next those that 

 feed upon the leaves, and last, those 

 that destroy the fruit. In the same 

 manner the insects that prey upon the 

 trunk, branches, leaves, and fruit of the 

 pear, the plum, the peach, the apricot, 

 nectarine, cherry, quince, grape, rasp- 

 berry, blackberry, stmwberry, currant, 

 gooseberry, melon, cucumber and 

 orange, are described and treated. Un- 

 der each of these heads is given a de- 



