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ing dew. Your correspondent deserves praise for his excellent hints; 

 yet there are some who have no room for " tree roses," and who have 

 to contiiie the leiijrth and breadth of their flower garden to the parlor : 

 now I have had very ill success in raising the tea roses on their own 

 bottoms, so much so, that I have nearly, if not (piite, lost that most valua- 

 ble of all, the yellow variety. Would Mr. Russell, or some one of your 

 many valuable writers, inform me of the cause, and also of some method 

 by which 1 may have this desirable species in bloom in the parlor the 

 season through? — Yotirs, H. S., July 10^ 1835. 



Select List of Jlpples for a Kitchen Garden. — Can any of your numer- 

 ous and intelligent correspondents, through your pages, inform me of 

 the most suitable apples for planting a kitchen garden .'' I am about 

 setting out several kinds this fall, and am unable, from a want ofpo- 

 mological knowledge myself, to select such as will come into bearing in 

 succession, and combine the qualities of fine flavor and beauty for the 

 early kinds, those qualities with good size for autumn sorts, and those 

 same qualities, with late keeping, that retain their iirmness, and not be- 

 coming insipid before spring. I shall feel much gratified if some one will 

 give me the requisite information. New kinds are continually creeping 

 into our collections, and the varieties are so numerous, that it is difficult 

 to select such sorts as are truly desirable. I am happy to see your Mag- 

 azine retain its character ; the last number is full equal, if not more in- 

 teresting, than the first. I hope to send you, before long, a communica- 

 tion on some subject, with which I am more acquainted than pomology. — 

 Yours, An Amateur., Cambridge, July Gth, 1835. 



Grape Vines. — We received a letter, a few days since, from one of 

 our subscribers, requesting us to answer a few queries therein mentioned, 

 relative to the vine ; from the pressure of engagements, we did not an- 

 swer so fully as we could have wished ; we consequently insert those 

 queries here, that some of our correspondents, who are acquainted 

 with the subject, will favor him with their opinions. As the queries are 

 numbered, reference need only be made to the numbers. — Conds. 



" 1. Is there much danger of rendering the soil too rich, thereby caus- 

 ing the vine to grow too luxuriantly, and thus retard its ripening ? 



2. Do you, from time to time, during the summer, remove all the new 

 shoots which proceed from the laterals, and do not bear fruit .'' 



3. When the clusters are very abundant, do you remove the more 

 feeble .'' 



4. Do you nip off the extremities of the fruit bearing branches, and, 

 if so, at what period of the growth of the grape ? 



5. Do you cut off the tendrils as they appear .'' 



6. What is your practice about watering your vines .-' 



7. Does it promote the ripening of the grape to remove the leaves, so 

 as to expose the cluster to the direct rays of the sun .' My own experi- 

 ments on a vine the last year, were unsuccessful." — Yours, P. C, Me. 



Dahlias. — Will any of our readers who are cultivating the dahlia, 

 inform us whether they are troubled with any insects which destroy 

 the leading shoots, and thus cause the plants to branch out aiul make 

 numerous laterals ? If so, and they know of any sure preventive, will 

 they have the kindness to inform us of the method. We are, in this vi- 

 cinity, troubled with insects, which are very injurious to the dahlia. — 

 Conds. 



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