The Canadian Horticultur.'St. 433 



business and had -to buy their apples, it is not, taking one year with another,'a 

 very profitable investment, for I know personally of four firms that have, after a 

 few years' evaporating, lost their whole capital. 



There is an erroneous idea that running an evaporator requires a good deal 

 of skill. This is not so. Any farmer who has two or three girls can dry his 

 crop without any other help. 



The whole secret of evaporating fruit can be summed up in a few words : 

 A continuous current of rapidly-moving hot air carried through the fruit. This 

 is the whole secret, no matter what form of dryer you use. And any form of 

 dryer that will not allow of the air being kept in motion is not, properly speaking, 

 an evaporator. — New York Examiner. 



UTILIZING A CELLAR'S WARMTH. 



The illustration shows a convenient way of starting plants in the early 

 spring, upon the sunny side of one's house. A frame is built against the under- 

 pinning of the house and over one of the cellar windows, which is hinged so as 

 to be raised and hooked to the floor timbers of the house. The warm air of 

 the cellar, beins; allowed to enter the enclosed frame outside, tempers any sud. 



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den chill in the atmosphere, either at night on on cloudy days, particularly 

 where the cellar contains a furnace, or other heating apparatus. Of course, 

 such an arrangement does not in any way take the place of a hot bed, but will 

 serve the purposes of a large class of persons whose early plants are usually 

 started in boxes in the kitchen window. — American Garden. 



Thinning' Plantations. — It is a good time, too, for a walk of inspection 

 through young plantations to mark the trees which have been overshadowed and 

 stunted by their stronger neighbors or crowded out of shape. Such trees should 

 be removed to give the other ones free chance of expansion, for whenever trees 

 begin to interfere and struggle with each other for the mastery, it is best to stop 

 the battle at once. — Garden and Forest. 



