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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



happy enough to live in their gardens 

 enjoy, miiijht be greatly increased as 

 follows: By a new departure, seeking 

 and growing only things delicate and 

 good in flavour. To grow such and 

 gather them at the right moment, which 

 is never done in the case of market pro- 

 duce, would be to experience a difference 

 not merely in degree, but of kind. 

 Green Peas, for example, grown thus 

 a 'id gathered thus would scarcely be 

 thought of the same species as the com- 

 mon full-grown market "bullet." — The 

 Gardener. 



DRIED FRUITS MARKET. 



Our market abroad for dried fruits is 

 extending every year. We have re- 

 ferred to it frequently, but it can hardly 

 be mentioned too often, and the follow- 

 ing from the Germantown Telegraph 

 is therefore in order. " It is a mistake 

 among farmers and fruit-raisers in 

 the United States to think that the 

 different varieties of fruit, such as 

 apples, pears, peaches, plums, cherries, 

 gooseberries, etc., are grown in Europe 

 in greater perfection than here. It is 

 not the fact. We raise these as abun- 

 dantly here, and in as much perfection, 

 as h -y do in Europe, and with not more 

 than half the labor and expense. We 

 have not a doubt that the United 

 States, ere many years, will become the 

 greatest fruit-raising country in the 

 world. In dried fruits, such as peaches 

 aild apj)les, the exportation has already 

 acquired large proportions, and in ten 

 years more it will go on multiplying in 

 extent until fruit-raising will become a 

 far greater and more profitable branch 

 of industry than at present. With such 

 a market as we find in Europe open to 

 us we can never grow an over-abun- 

 dance of apples and peaches; while these, 

 in addition to cranberries, in their na- 

 tural condition, fresh from the trees and 

 vines, onglit to be, and no doubt will be. 



produced in such quantities as to meet 

 any demand. The very cheapness that 

 we can send them abroad for will open 

 for us an unlimited market for all with 

 which we can supply it." — Press. 



ROSES PEGGED DOWiN^. 



Each succeeding year this method of 

 growing roses has an increased number 

 of adherents. Those who give it a trial 

 soon discover the advantages wliich 

 it possesses. Not only does it produce 

 a larger quantity of well developed 

 flowers than the ordinary bush system, 

 but in the case of perpetual flowering 

 varieties a better succession is kept up. 

 This latter, I find, can be secured by 

 allowing the shooti to remain in an 

 erect position after they have been 

 shortened to the required length until 

 they have broken and theyoung growths 

 have attained a length of 4 inches or 

 5 inches, instead of pegging them down 

 as soon as they have been pruned ; 

 when left for a time erect in this man- 

 ner, they do not at once push growth 

 the whole length of the shoots retained, 

 in the way that occurs when immediate- 

 ly pegged down to a horizontal position, 

 but break some four or half a dozen 

 of the eyes at the points. When these 

 have grown a few inches, as already 

 stated, and the shoots are then pegged 

 horizontally, it has the effect of causing 

 the lower unbroken eyes to move and 

 to come on three or four weeks later 

 than those nearer the extremity, yield- 

 ing quantities of fine flowers during 

 the interval between the first bloom of 

 the leading shoots and their successional 

 flowering. In this way there is so much 

 less gap in the blooming, which, it is 

 needless to say, is a gain with those 

 who grow Roses for ordinary purposes. 

 One great advantage in the case of th(; 

 pegging-down system is that there is no 

 bare ground ; all is covered so thickly 

 that very few weeds appear, and in 



