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FRUIT put away for winter use should 

 be kept cool or it will soon decay. 

 If in the cellar, the doors and win- 

 dows should be opened enough to keep the 

 temperature down as near the freezing point 

 as can be with safety. 



Scions may be cut and packed away in 

 sand or fresh saw dust until needed. There 

 are many apple and pear trees of unprofit- 

 able varieties ; these should be marked and 

 top grafted in early spring. 



Tools, ladders, baskets, etc., should all be 

 carefully gathered and stored. These may 

 be repaired or painted as may be desired 

 during the winter season. For this purpose 

 a tool room heated with a stove is a great 

 convenience. 



Prune grapes, currants and gooseberries 

 and pack away the cuttings in fresh saw 

 dust, or in earth not too dry, for spring set- 

 ting. One may just as well enlarge his 

 plantation in this way as to pay the nursery- 

 man to grow the young plants. 



A Winter Mulch of strawy manure, or 

 of leaves and evergreen boughs over the 

 earth about the strawberry vines, will pre- 

 vent the alternate freezing and thawing 

 which is so injurious to the plants. 



The Lawn should receive a top dressing 

 of fine manure and ashes to keep it in a 

 thrifty condition. Parts on which the 

 growth is weakly should be marked for a 

 fresh sowing of seed in the early spring. 



Irrigation does not seem to be always 

 advantageous. Jordan, of the New Jersey 

 Station (Rept. 1902) got a better yield of 

 asparagus from plots not irrigated than from 

 those irrigated : and the ripening of Lom- 

 bard plums was delayed six days by irriga- 



tion. Of small fruits the yield was con- 

 siderably increased, raspberries 5 per cent., 

 currants 10 per cent. 



The gardener should remember at this 

 season to lay aside in a cellar a good supply 

 of fine rich earth for use in spring in his hot 

 beds and cold frames. 



A Dominion Exhibition is proposed for 

 Winnipeg in 1905. and the project is being 

 heartily supported by the public organiza- 

 tions of that city. 



XuT Growing would no doubt be a pro- 

 fitable industry in some parts. J. T. Lovett, 

 of Emile, Pa., has about twenty-two acres 

 of chestnuts, containing about 12,000 trees 

 from 4 to 13 years old. They are set in 

 rows 30 feet apart each way, and the ground 

 cultivated. The thirteen year old trees are 

 in bearing and yield about a bushel of nuts 

 each year. The Paragon is the favorite, 

 because of its productiveness. Chestnuts 

 appear to be in great demand, and the whole 

 crop of this orchard last year sold for $10 

 a bushel. 



The Hyslop Crab has brought the high- 

 est price of any at the South Haven fruit 

 station, Michigan, during the past season. 



The Herbert and the Sarah raspber- 

 ries are two of the hardiest varieties so far 

 tested at the Central Experimental Farm, 

 Ottawa. The former was originated by 

 our director, Mr. R. B. Whyte, and the lat- 

 ter by Dr. William Saunders, both of Ot- 

 tawa. 



The Soda Mixture for spraying has 

 been used in Europe for three years past, in- 

 stead of the Bordeaux. It is more easily 

 applied, is cleaner to handle, and adheres 

 better to the foliage than when lime is used. 



