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injurious results ? Plant your grape vines therefore, if you please, eight 

 feet apart; but if you do so, be sure and follow the example above re- 

 corded, and dig out every other vine as soon as it is perceived that they 

 want more room, and very little summer, or indeed, any other pruning 

 will be required. Are we then to allow our vines to grow just as they 

 please, and permit every poor weakly shoot that starts to grow ? By 

 no means; train your vines to any shape you please, and cut away any 

 shoots you don't want, but permit those arms that are retained to run as 

 far as they will, and cover the trellis as thickly with foliage as tliey are 

 able. It is not the cutting of this shoot, or that arm, that will injure 

 a vine, it is confining it to eight feet of trellis when it is able to cover 

 eighteen. It is the persistent and continual shortening in of the arms 

 or spurs, so that it is never permitted to revel in its wonted luxuriance 

 of foliage. 



APPLES FOR THE AMATEUR 



BY R. BURNET, LONDON. 



A paragraph or two on apples especially adapted to amateur culture 

 may not be out of place in the Horticulturist. The lists presented 

 at the w^inter meeting of the Fruit Growers' Association, at Hamilton, 

 on the most profitable market varieties, have created quite a stir among 

 apple growers. A short list of the finer varieties of apples, more par- 

 ticularly suited for home use, will find an echo in the minds of a great 

 many amateur Canadian cultivators. In such cultivation, the matter 

 of hardiness in bearing carriage, need not be taken into account. 

 Domestic use is the great desideratum, and the highest flavored sorts 

 may therefore be recommended without detriment to the grower. 



First, among many compeers, is the Pomme Royale, a popular 

 dessert apple, sometimes known under the name of Dyer, which name 

 was given to it in mistake by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 the members of which supposed it to be a seedling of Mr. Dyer, of 

 Ehode Island. It is undoubtedly of French origin, and is no unworthy 

 product and representative of La Belle France. Its character is seen 

 in the numerous "spicy" names which it has at various times received 

 and borne. " Golden Spice," " Coe's Spice," " White Spice," " Smith- 



