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business is to lay eggs and die. The 

 poison can be made too strong, and had 

 better be too weak than of strength to 

 kill the plants. A pound of Paris 

 green should be dissolved in 200 gal- 

 lons of water. — Ohio Farmer. 



Question gratDtr. 



This department is intended as an open one to every 

 reader of the '■'Horticulturist" to send in either 

 questions or answers. Often a reader will be able to 

 answer a question which has been left unanswered, 

 or only partially answered by us. For convenience 

 of reference the questions will henceforth be num- 

 bered, and any one replying or referring to any 

 question will please msntion the number of it. 



1. Huckleberries. — Can they he 

 profitably cultivated ? If so, where can 

 a supply of hushes be obtained, and 

 which varieties would you recommend ? 



D. C. L. 



See article by A. S. Fuller, on p. 

 230 of this vol. Mr. T. C. Robertson, 

 Owen Sound, says : "I do not know 

 where they can be had. My conviction, 

 from experience of reliable parties pub- 

 lished in the Rural New Yorker, and 

 elsewhere, is that they will not grow 

 in ordinary garden soil so as to be pro- 

 ductive." It is said that Prof. Bailey, 

 of the Michigan Agricultural College, 

 has devoted an acre to the experiment 

 of improving the wild species of huckle- 

 berries, and we may hope for some 

 useful information from him in course 

 of time. 



Mr. John Little, Gran ton, writes 

 that Mr. J. T. Lovett, Little Silver, 

 N. J., offers two varieties, the Bell and 

 the Cherry, at 50 cents per hundred. 



2. Grafting Grapes. — What is the 

 best time and mode 1 D. C. L. 



Propagators differ as to the best time 

 for cleft grafting the grape vine, but 

 probably it may be done with best 

 success in spring, just before the buds 

 begin to swell. Any one familiar with 

 the ordinary method of top grafting 



the apple tree, will have little trouble. 

 The vine is cut off three or four inches 

 below the surface of the ground, split 

 with a grafting chisel, and held open 

 with a wedge until the scion is fitted 

 to its place. The scion need not be 

 over six inches long, and should have a 

 wedge shaped end, smoothly cut, to fit 

 the cleft in such a manner that when it 

 is allowed to close, the bark of the old 

 and new wood will be in close union. 

 Use no grafting wax ; but, if necessary, 

 tie the cleft with a string, and then 

 heap the earth carefully about the graft, 

 leaving but one bud of the scion above 

 the surface (see cut). 



CLEFT GRAFT OF GRAPE. 



Or, if the stump is old and knotty, 

 you may splice graft a smaller branch. 

 Do this at a distance of two or three 



GRAFTED CANE OF GRAPE. 



feet from the stump, and then lay the 

 grafted branch down carefully, fasten it 

 in place with a peg, and cover the graft 



