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leaf mold, one manure, with a sprink- 

 ling of sand, or in any good, rich soil. 

 If lifted carefully, shaded for a few 

 days, and then brought to a sunny 

 window, they will continue to bloom 

 for some time. — American Gardener. 



RASPBERHIES IN NEW JEiiSKY. 



Among these. Early Prolific is the 

 earliest and most productive of the red 

 varieties, and has always given us bet- 

 ter results in every respect than Reli- 

 ance. Highland Hardy is a little earlier, 

 but too small and light a bearer. Tur- 

 ner is a little better, but too small. 

 Cuthbeit is large and productive when 

 well cultivated and thinned. Superb 

 is large, productive and promising, and 

 there is little difference between this 

 and Montclair, the latter being the 

 sweeter. A lady residing about a mile 

 from here, last week requested me to 

 call and see her Montclairs. I did so, 

 and a finer sight in the raspberry line 

 I never beheld. The plants, five feet 

 high, were loaded outside and in with 

 berries. Ripe specimens, three-fourths 

 of an inch in diameter and seven- 

 eighths of an inch long, were abundant. 

 ^ She thinks it "just good enough." 

 [We have fruited this sort several 

 yeans and find it valuable. — Eds.] 

 Brandy wine is of no account save to 

 produce plants The little fruit which 

 it gives is hard, dry, and destitute of 

 good qualities. Clarke produces fine | 

 berries, but they require careful hand- j 

 ling even for home use, and the plants | 

 are not fully hardy. Shaffer is a very ' 

 vigorous grower, the fruit resembling 

 red. black-caps till fully ripe, when it ' 

 assumes a darker color. Some of the 

 berries are monsters in size, [averaging 

 with us about seven-eighths of an inch 

 in diameter. — Eds.] It is about the 

 same in quality as the Rochelle, wliich 

 we have had to discai'd on account of 

 its liability to disease. The Caroline I 



gives us great satisfaction, being hardy, 

 healthy and productive, the berries 

 large, very attractive in colour and 

 admirable in quality. It finds its way 

 to our table oftener than any other. — 

 E Williams, in Couiitry Gentleman. 



ROSE PAQUERE'lTE. 



This Rose has only been brought in- 

 to prominence within the past year or 

 two, yet it is rapidly making its way 

 into popular favor. It is a charming 

 little bush, resembling a dwarf minia- 

 ture form of Aimee Yibert, and, like 

 it, bears comparatively large clusters of 

 small white flowers, but unfortunately 

 almost, if not quite, scentless A very 

 useful ])urpose to which this Rose can 

 be put is to grow it in r-inch or 0-inch 

 pots, and em])loy it for greenhouse de- 

 coration during the sj)ring and early 

 summer months. It is much better 

 fitted for pots than for the open ground, 

 as, being dwarf, the flowers get dis- 

 figured by heavy rains. It can be 

 readily struck from cuttings taken off 

 at any time when the young shoots are 

 in a half-ripened condition ; insert them 

 in pots of sandy soil, and keep them 

 close till rooted ; then pot them oft', and 

 when requijite, shift them into 5-inch 

 pots. If cuttings are taken now and 

 placed in a gentle heat, they will root 

 very quickly, and can be potted ofl' and 

 established in small pots before winter, 

 when the protection of a frame must 

 be accorded them. When growth com- 

 mences in sj)ring the strongest may be 

 potted on, and will form little flower- 

 ing plants tlie next summer ; but the 

 first season, free growth rather than 

 flowers should be encouraged, so as to 

 obtain good plants for the following 

 year. Some of tlie most likely may 

 then be intioduced into a little heat as 

 early as the end of February, and, by 

 starting them in successive batches, a 

 display of flowers may be kept up for a 



