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rants, and raspberries to offer them, at a season 

 when they are great rarities in the market, and 

 to be had there only at prices which the Croesuses 

 of the stock exchange can alone afford to pay ? 

 Will not your guests be delighted to assist you 

 in gathering these nice fruits from the tree with 

 their own hands r And, when placed upon your 

 table, as its central ornament, will they not look 

 far more beautiful than if they had been bought 

 with money ? 



Pruning Fruit Trees on the Terrace. 



Don't trouble yourselves about pruning your 

 dwarf cherries and plums. The gardeners have 

 a saying, that these trees whose wood always 

 contains a great deal of gum do not "love the 

 knife ; " they ought, therefore, to have it applied 

 to them as seldom as possible. As seldom as 

 possible is still too often ; in a word, so far as 

 they are concerned, keep your pruning-knife in 

 your little gardener's tool-chest ; they will thrive 

 all the better for its being left there be all the 

 more productive. 



The raspberries, which are simple shrubs, have 



