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more or less throughout the season, but Mad. Plantier will not extend its season 

 beyond the second week in July. To complete the collection I would take the 

 common English Moss and the Glory of the Mosses. Either one or both will 

 add greatly to any collection. 



My method of cultivation is to cut out all two-years' wood at the end of 

 the blooming season (about the middle of July), and manure heavily by remov- 

 ing the earth from the roots of the plants, and covering in as much well-rolled 

 manure as I can. With this treatment, together with occasional showering in 

 dry weather, the Jack and the Luizet will continue to bloom more or less all 

 the season through ; and even the Magna Charta will not refuse to respond, as 

 I have at this date one or two bushes bearing a second load of handsome b'os- 

 soms. For winter protection there is nothing like the snow ; but I always bend 

 over and protect with a light covering of leaves or clean straw. In spring, as 

 soon as the leaves are out I spray with Paris green, about the same strength as I 

 use for fruit trees and currant bushes. I repeat this treatment a few weeks 

 afterwards, and find no other treatment necessary. My assortment this year 

 comprises about seventy varieties, some of which, besides those mentioned, I 

 will refer to again. 



T. H. Race. 



Mitchell. 



Peddling Fruit. — The young man who peddles a good article of fruit 

 and vegetables of his own growing from door to door will grow faster in all 

 legitimate knowledge in the line of his business than if he deals entirely with 

 middlemen. He learns and operates two kindred trades and gets most of the 

 profits of both. 



He learns to grade his products, and put them in the most attractive form, 

 and after a while gets his eggs into a number of baskets, and thus in spite of 

 adverse seasons of storms manages to have considerable to sell all the while. 

 This idea that it is degrading to offer an article for sale from house to house 

 interferes greatly with the profitable sale of odds and ends of fruit and garden 

 stuff on many small farms or village lots. For example, during the last two 

 weeks Astrachan apples and Early Harvest pears have sold as low as 35c. per 

 bushel, but consumers have readily paid from 15 to 25 cents per peck for the 

 same, for the dealers asked even more than that. I sold 35 quart boxes of the 

 Mary pear from a small pear tree for a nickel a box, and as they were sold in 

 connection with a load of apples, sweet corn, tomatoes (also in boxes), black- 

 berries and cabbages, the selling took scarcely any extra time. Perhaps I could 

 have found a dealer who would have given me a half-dollar for the lot in bulk, 

 but I might have had to offer them to a dozen or fifteen grocers before selling. 

 They were small but bright yellow with a red cheek, and very attractive in the 

 way I offered them. I have sold early peaches and plums in the same way at 

 double what dealers would pay in bulk. — Green's Fruit Grower. 



