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ing the bushes with suds of carbolic-acid soap. 

 In the open garden the bushes may be set in 

 lows five feet apart, and four feet distant in the 

 row. In obtaining gooseberries, ask for those 

 varieties that do not mildew, such as Hough - 

 ton's Seedling. 



All kinds of fruit-trees and grape-vines may 

 now be set out, even to better advantage than 

 in the spring ; and there is now no such pressure 

 for time as will prevent its being done carefully. 

 It may be safer farther north to put out stone 

 fruits in spring, but that is a question for 

 local authorities to decide. We are sufficiently 

 utilitarian to advise the owners of small places 

 to put out fruit-trees in the main, rather 

 than those which are merely ornamental. If 

 properly pruned and trained, fruit-trees are 

 ornamental as well as useful. They are great 

 fragrant bouquets in spring, and their laden 

 boughs throughout the season suggest moral 



