142 THE CAIsA-DIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



P. E. Buc'ke, Ottawa, said some prune their grape vines so as to 

 make them leggy ; they should be shortened back sufficiently to keep 

 the whole trellis well covered with fruit and foliage, and not at the 

 ^extremities only. The Houghton Gooseberry if not pruned will yield 

 only small berries, and the tips of the branches that touch the ground 

 will root. The bushes should be kept well pruned up and free from 

 suckers, this will enable one t© combat the Saw Fly to better advan- 

 tage. Finds that if the bushes are thoroughly sprinkled wdth water 

 in which a little pads green has been stirred, say a teaspoonful to a 

 pail of water, at the time when they are in blossom, the Saw Flies will 

 not make their appearance again during the season. When the currants 

 -are nearly grown he prunes out the suckers and cuts back the young 

 wood. His grape vines he prunes in the fall, so as to lay them down 

 and cover them with earth ; prefers earth to Cedar boughs. In summer 

 he pinches in the growing shoots. He grows some of the Eogei'S 

 A^arieties, the Oreveling does well, the Clinton is the most hardy sort. 



A. M. Smith, Drummondville, prunes raspberry plants by removing 

 the old canes and pinching back the young canes when they are about 

 two and a half feet high. The Clarke Easpberry is too soft a berry to 

 ship any distance, but it bears well, and sells well in a near market. 



Thos. Beall, Lindsay, thinks that June and -July are the best months 

 in which to prune apple trees, just after they have made their spring 

 growth. He prunes his grape vines in the fall, to two eyes, and covers 

 them with corn stalks, after washing them with tobacco water in which 

 he has mixed some lime and a little nux vomica to keep the mice from 

 knawing them. Last fall he left his Clinton vine, wJiich had never 

 borne any fruit, uj)on the trellis without pruning, this spring he pruned 

 it, and now it is loaded with fruit. He finds that the Delaware does 

 not bear severe pruning. In the summer he pinches back the shoots, 

 leaving two leaves beyond the fruit cluster, and when they again start 

 to grow he pinches th* new shoots back to one leaf beyond the previous 

 j)inching. 



W. Saunders, London, prunes his apple and pear trees in the month 

 of March, before the spring work begins. He washes the trunks af 

 .his trees with soft soap, or with a solution of washing soda, about the 

 oniddle of June. He prunes his grape vines on the renewal system. 



S. T. Carver, Peterboro', prunes his apple trees early in the spring, 

 -also scrapes the bodies and washes with soap suds. 



