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A Seedling Peach. 



1182. Sir, — I send you two samples of a fine 

 seedling peach which has fruited this year for the 

 first time. The tree is vigorous, hardy, and 

 productive. 



Jarvis, Ont. T. H. L. 



This is a magnificent yellow fleshed 

 peach, equal to the Early Crawford, which 

 it much resembles in appearance and qual- 

 ity, only that it is a clearer red. 



Seedling Plums. 



1 183. Sir, — lam sending you two samples o^ 

 plums grown from some suckers given me by a 

 lady in Ottawa, which have borne heaviiy the 

 last three years. Would you please give me the 

 name of them or name them for me if they are 

 not a known variety, so that I may exhibit them. 



Ottawa. W. H. 



Few people except nurserymen seem to 

 know that named varieties of fruits are pro- 

 pagated by either budding or grafting on 

 some seedling stock, and that suckers from 

 the latter will be of the nature of the stock 

 and not of the graft. 



These Plums are Seedlings, too small to 

 be of commercial value at this season (Sept. 

 1 2th), and not worth adding to the list of 

 named varieties. 



A Cedar Hedge. 



1184. Sir, — What IS the proper time to plant 

 a cedar hedge, and what is the best way of 

 putting it in, and what size plants to use ? The 

 above will much oblige yours truly, 



Seaforth. Beattie Bros. 



Evergreen may be removed at almost any 

 season of the year, providing the removal 

 is not followed by excessive drouth. The 

 sap of these trees is gummy, and if once 

 dried the tree will not recover. May or 

 June is usually counted a good time, be- 

 cause the rains which follow settle the 

 ground, and the trees will become estab- 

 lished before the stmimer drouth. 



We would advise small in preference to 

 large size trees ; for if a cedar or spruce tree 



once becomes stunted, it rarely ever recov- 

 ers itself. We would advise buying cedars 

 (arbor vitae) that were about two feet in 

 height. 



Fig. 1930. 



Pruning Roses. 



1185. Sir,— Kindly tell me how to winter and 

 prune my outdoor roses. They have been set out 

 two years, and I have tried bending the branches 

 to the ground and covering them with straw for 

 protection, but many of the branches are now 

 becoming too large to be bent down, and those 

 which were bent over have never fully recovered 

 their upright form. How can I protect them this 

 winter without making them unsightly ? Should 

 they be pruned, and if so, in what way ? Many 

 of the branches appear to be quite dead. 



Elgin. j. R. Dargavei,. 



H. P. Roses, which we presume are re- 

 erred to by our correspondent, need to be 

 well pruned back every year in order to en- 

 courage the growth of an abundance of 

 young wood, for bloom is produced upon 

 the young growth. They should be nruned 

 first in the spring time when the growth is 

 nicely started. We give an illustration 

 showing about how this work should be 

 done. If two or three good buds are left 

 upon each branch they will be all that are 



