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the buds start. In this respect my words have 

 all the authority belonging to those of a certain 

 temperance lecturer, who, in order to be graphic 

 and forcible, occasionally got drunk, that he 

 might speak from experience. 



Fruit-trees and grape-vines can now again be 

 set out, and the earlier it is done the better. 

 This is specially true in regard to raspberries, or 

 eise the buds or germs that are to make the bear- 

 ing canes for another season will be so far started 

 as to render it impossible to prevent their break- 

 ing off. If a full supply of all kinds of fruit were 

 not put out the preceding fall, we would urge that 

 it be done in spring, and if done early and care- 

 fully, and the ground kept mulched and moist 

 around the plants and trees during the hot dry 

 \\eather, the gardener will have no cause to 

 complain. 



For certainty of success there is no time for 

 putting out strawborry plants like April. If 



