WATERING SEEDS IN BOXES. 



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liable agents in carrying pollen than the 

 prevailing winds. Waugh (Vermont Sta., 

 Rept. 1900) covered with muslin sacks 

 2.500 Baldwin blossoms, from 10 to 30 

 being covered by each sack. These blos- 

 soms were therefore safely protected from 

 the visits of insects and from all foreign pol- 

 len. The result was that only three apples 

 set out of all these blossoms. 



The practical conclusion is that large 

 blocks of a single variety should never be 

 planted, but always two or more varieties in 

 alternating rows. In case of established or- 

 chards, the mistake can easily be remedied 

 by top grafting another good variety here 

 and there upon the trees. 



FANCY FRUIT NEVER A GLUP. 



SOME people always see gloomy pros- 

 pects and glutted markets; they al- 

 ways look on the dark side of everything and 

 seem never to catch even a glimpse to the 

 silver edging of a cloud. We do, indeed, 

 find our markets at times over supplied with 

 certain fruits, but if we look into the condi- 



tions we find either that the fruit was poor 

 or that it was badly distributed. Perhaps 

 one market was receiving three-fourths of 

 the shipments from our Canadian growers, 

 and hundreds of smaller markets through- 

 out Ontario were almost bare of supply. 



We do not believe that too much really 

 kigh grade fruit, of good shipping quality, 

 can be grown. There is an axiom about 

 this which we believe will hold good, viz,, 

 that " the more good fruit put into a market 

 the greater will be the consumption and the 

 better the prices in the end," while no doubt 

 the reverse of this statement is equally true. 

 The fact is that when people cannot get good 

 apples, for example, they will look out for 

 choice fruits of other kinds, whether fresh 

 or preserved, to take their place, and so on 

 throughout the chapter. 



The moral then is plain — grow only fancy 

 high grade fruit, and place such goods only 

 on the markets, and the chances are that we 

 shall seldom see a glut, unless it be of over- 

 ripe fruit that must be hurriedly disposed of. 



WATERING SEEDS IN BOXES. 



WHEN seeds are planted in boxes in 

 the house there is great danger 

 that in watering the earth the seeds will be 

 washed out. This is particularly the case 

 if the seeds are small and but lightly cov- 



FiG. 2576. Watering Seeps in Boxes. 



ered, as is the case with pansy seeds, and 

 many others, A good plan for watering 

 such seed boxes is shown in the cut. A 

 piece of cotton cloth is laid smoothly over 

 the soil and the water poured upon that, 

 when it spreads out all over the surface of 

 the cloth and gently soaks into the soil. As 

 much or as little water can in this way be 

 added to the soil as may be desired, and the 

 earth will not be disturbed in the least. — 

 American Agriculturist. 



