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a peculiar dull reddish-brown color. 

 We suspect that the fruit could not 

 have been quite ripe, for in flavor they 

 were more acid and less mild than Lee's 

 Black gathered for comparison. 



CRANBERRY CULTURE. 

 Can you give me the system of Cran- 

 berry culture and the conditions neces- 

 sary to success? Can they be raised 

 from the seed, or would it be better to 

 set out the plants 1 Do you know any 

 place where cultivated plants can be 

 obtained at a reasonable figure ] 

 Yours trulj'', 



S. Cornell. 

 Thedford, August 4th, 1886. 



Reply. — The paper on Cranberries, 

 by Vice-President Allan, which will be 

 found in this number, will answer your 

 inquiries as to cultivation. It would 

 probably be a slow process to raise them 

 from seed, cuttings are usually em- 

 ployed. We do not know who has 

 them for sale. 



PRUNING GRAPE VINES. 



Dear Sir, — I read with much plea- 

 sure your very minute and interesting 

 instructions relative to the growing of 

 grape vines by amateurs in the April 

 Number of the Canadian Horticulturist, 

 and am, I trust, profiting by them. 



I would like you to give me your 

 advice on this matter. Some of my 

 v'ines are making excellent growth — 

 an improvement on my previous ex- 

 perience — and, besides making long 

 shoots, are throwing out vigorous 

 laterals. Now, I wish you to tell me 

 how I am to treat these. Let them 

 grow, or cut them off? If this latter, 

 how will the bearing bud for the fol- 

 lowing year be affected ? 



Kindly say in your next Number, 

 and oblige, Yours truly, 



I J. L. Thompson. 



Toronto, 29th July, 1886. 



Reply. — You might pinch off the 

 ends of the laterals with advantage. 

 This will tend to strengthen the buds 

 at the base. All severe summer prun- 

 insf is to be avoided. 



DANDELIONS IN THE LAWN. 



Sir, — Can you inform me through 

 your journal how I can improve ray 

 lawn, it has become full of dandelion. 

 Your attention will oblige much. 

 Yours respectfully, 



S. Begg. 

 Innerkip, Ont., 4th August, 1886. 



Reply. — The only way known to us 

 to get rid of them is that of cutting 

 them so far below the crown that the 

 roots will not sprout again, and ra- 

 moving the portion thus cut off. We 

 remember to have seen some laborers 

 doing this on the lawn of an eminent 

 horticulturist in Rochester, N.Y., some 

 years ago, and feel sure that if there 

 had been any better method known to 

 him, he would have employed that 

 method. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



HARDINESS OF WEIGELA ROSEA. 



In the February Number of your 

 valuable journal you ask for more in- 

 formation regarding the hardiness of 

 the " Weigelas." I have a " Weigela " 

 which has for eight years occupied a 

 north-western exposure (perhaps as cold 

 a situation as is to be found in the 

 County of Huron), and it thrives ad- 

 mirably without any protection what- 

 ever, has never been damaged by frost, 

 and is each year the admiration of all 

 who see it, on account of the density 

 and beauty of both foliage and bloom. 

 It is the " Rosea " variety. 

 Yours respectfully, 



Robert Harrison. 



Ashfield, Co. Huron, July 22, 1886. 



