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lender sorts, as the bark around the 

 wound will be killed for some distance, 

 and there is little hope that it will ever 

 afterwards heal. But any of the varie- 

 ties that never become black-hearted 

 may be i)runed " whenever your knife 

 is sharp," remembering this, that June 

 pruning is a shock more or less severe, 

 according to the amount of wood re- 

 moved. " Prune in summer for fruit," 

 is an old and correct rule, for the very 

 reason that the sliock of summer prun- 

 ing (like anything that weakens the 

 tree) tends to cause the formation of 

 fruit buds. The effect is much like 

 that of root pruning, and both must be 

 practised with moderation and judg- 

 ment. — The Examiner. 



THE ANIS APPLE. 



In the summer of 18^2 after wander- 

 ing for days through the old orchards 

 of the Province of Kazan, Kussia — over 

 one thousand miles inland and on the 

 ;")7th parallel of north latitude — we ex- 

 j)ressed the opinion in home letters ! 

 that the Anis family of the apple could 

 endure lower temperature in a snowless 

 region than any other really good j 

 variety of apples in the world. 



The report then made, and the com- 

 ments of Mr. Gibb and myself in more i 

 recent bulletins on northern fruits, 

 iiave created an urgent demand for 

 trees, both north and south. 



As some of the varieties have now 

 fruited on the College Farm and at 

 other points in the state, and the com- 

 ])arative hardiness of the trees has been 

 tested as far north and west as Bismarck, 

 Dakota, and Western Manitoba, we can 

 now determine very nearly the correct- 

 ness of our conclusions, when studying 

 the family in its natal home. 



1. The habit of the pink Anis, blue 

 Anis, and mottled Anis — the three best 

 varieties — will not please our nursery- 

 men, as root grafts three years old are 

 low, bushy shrubs, rather than trees 



such as purchasers like best. Although 

 it comes into bearing when very small 

 it finally becomes in orchard a neat 

 round- topped tree of the size of a full 

 grown Tetofsky. 



2. The fruit is oblate, basin very full 

 and wrinkled, with considerable color 

 and bloom. In size it comes nearly or 

 quite up to the Fameuse. In texture 

 it is firmer than the latter, but the flesh 

 is equally white. Mr. Gibb, who is 

 very critical as to quality of fruits, 

 says, "It is really a dessert apple of 

 fine quality." 



3. The season varies with latitude 

 and amount of summer heat. At Ames 

 it is not later than Fameuse, but if 

 picked early it will keep better on 

 account of its thicker skin and firmer 

 flesh. In North Iowa it should keep 

 until mid-winter with good treatment, 

 and in North Dakota it should keep 

 until May. 



In like manner in Russia it is a fall 

 apple in the black soil sections where 

 dent corn ripens, and a prime winter 

 apple four hundred miles further north. 



4. While the tree succeeds well 

 wherever tried as yet, it is quite evident 

 that it will prove most valuable at the 

 far north, where the fruit will keep 

 through winter. — J. L. Budd, in Stu- 

 dents^ Farm Journal. 



THE GLADIOLUS. 

 There are few flowers more conspicu- 

 ous than a well grouped bed of the 

 gladiolus. Stately in growth, free of 

 flowering, distinct in color, with a great 

 variety of shades, no flower garden of 

 any pretentions can be said to be com- 

 plete without them. It belongs to a 

 class of flowers that have changed 

 greatly in the hands of the hybridizer 

 and careful cultivator, and to the 

 French, it may be said, we are the most 

 indebted for the great advnnce made in 

 this flower. In the olden time but few 

 kinds were known, gandavensis being 



