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failed in our own experience, with cut- 

 tings five or six inches in length. We 

 usually cut them at the time of our 

 spring pruning in March and bury them 

 in sand for a few weeks. Very few fail 

 to grow, and any novice should succeed. 



16. Grape cuttings. — Should grape cut- 

 tings from fall pruning be planted now, 

 and packed in sand until spring ? 



J. P. W. 

 It will be safer to pack them in sand 

 in the celler, or bury them in dry sandy 

 loam out doors, and plant them in 

 spring. 



17. Manure for Currant and Gooseberry 

 bushes. — Would sulphate of iron or hone 

 dust mixed with ashes he the most econ- 

 omic manure for currants and goose- 

 berry bushes in bearing, inoney value 

 being equal. 



J. P. W., Homings Mills, Ont. 



18. Ardisia Crenulata. — In the November 

 Number you rejer to A. Crenulata as a 

 desirable house plant. Local florists do 

 not know it, will you kindly inform me 

 where it can be got. 



C. H. Dunning, Toronto, Ont, 

 We think it cannot be purchased 

 nearer than New York City at present. 

 We asked Mr. Jas. Vick about it and 

 he says " We do not grow it, and do 

 not think is can be purchased in Roch- 

 ester." Mr. E. S. Carman of Jiural 

 New- Yorker, writes " You can get the 

 Ardisia of Peter Henderson (k Co., New 

 York, or of John Saul, Washington." 



REPLIES TO PREVIOUS QUESTIONS. 



1. Huckleberries. — Mr. Lovett, Little 

 Silver, N. J., writes : " Please cor- 

 rect the error on page 248. I have 

 the Bell and Cherry Cranberries, but 



no Huckleberries. My many attempts 

 to grow this fruit have in all cases re- 

 sulted, the same as with your corres- 

 pondent from Owen Sound, in failure." 



Mr. W. A. Dempsey, son of Mr. P. 

 C. Dempsey, of Trenton, Ont., says : 

 " Wild Huckleberry plants can be got 

 in quantity here at cost of labour dig- 

 ging them, say 50c. per 100 or |4 per 

 1,000, There are a great many pails 

 picked off my place each season. I 

 like what is called the Bill-berry better, 

 only that it mildews. The bushes are 

 much larger ; I have seen them about 

 8 feet high." 



7. Fruit Dryer. — In order to answer 

 this question, we wi-ote to the Ameri- 



V. 3. COOK STOVE DBIKR. 



can Manufacturing Co., Waynesboro, 

 Penn., asking for a cut of their U 



