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(white) may be chosen, both being extremely attractive ; and to afford a succes- 

 sion until Jackmani flowers, select Viticella Major (purplish-red) and Henderson, 

 (purple). 



Clematises are grown on a large scale in many nurseries, and they are kept 

 in pots so that intending planters can to a large extent suit their own convenience 

 as to purchasing. Either autumn or spring may be chosen, the chief considera- 

 tion being the state of the soil. When it is in a friable condition, and the 

 weather is open, the plants may be put in. They should have a good depth of 

 porous, fertile, well-worked soil, with ample drainage ; this provided, a great 

 step towards success will have been achieved, and annual top-dressings of rich 

 soil will maintain the plants in vigor after they have become established. The 

 plants must be pruned after planting, cutting in the stems to the best and 

 boldest buds, even if the plants are thereby cut half away. Those of the 

 Jackmani type flower on the summer shoots, and to encourage the production 

 of these the previous year's shoots should be cut in to about two eyes from firm 

 ripe wood in early spring, when the allotted wall space has been filled. With 

 plenty of vigorous young shoots trained in, abundance of large and richly-colored 

 flowers will be produced. — Garden-Work. 



The Harris Apricot.— Mr. S. D. Willard, of Geneva, New York, stated 

 at the late meeting of the Ohio Horticultural Society that the Harris is the earliest 

 variety of apricot grown in Western New York, and it ripens fruit about the 

 1 5 th of July. The tree is of dwarf habit ; the fruit is large and of good flavor. Harris 

 and Mont Gammet are good varieties for home use, and St. Ambrosia is good 

 for market purposes. Some trees near Geneva have borne five or six bushels in 

 a single season, which have sold for ten dollars a bushel. The market, however, 

 is limited, although the canneries would probably use all the surplus. New York 

 State apricots, when canned and sold on their merits in the Boston market, 

 brought fifty per cent, more than the same fruit from California. The curculio on 

 the apricot is fought in the same way that it is on the plum, but it can be con- 

 quered more easily. When plums are grown near apricots the curculio seems 

 to give its principal attention to the plums. 



Yield of Grapes in New York. — A writer in the Grape Belt says : " In 

 the Chautauqua district the average of bearing Concord vineyards is, by the sub- 

 stantial agreement of competent observers, not to exceed 500 9-pound baskets, 

 or two and one-fourth tons per acre. In contrast with this we have the fact that 

 in each town there are growers who produce 1,000 baskets, and in the case of 

 some exceptionally skilled vineyardists a yield has been attained of 1,500 

 9-pound baskets per acre. Where we seek for the causes of this low average 

 we find them in the poverty of soil of worn out lands, in the imperfect stand 

 of some vineyards, many vines being missing, in the inevitable breakdown of 

 trying to grow weeds and fruit at the same time, and in faulty methods of prun^ 

 ing and the construction of the trellis," 



