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POPULAR GARDENING. 



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both from the same land. In the fall the Rasp- 

 bei'ries must come out, leaving the ground to 

 be occupied by the Blackberries. 



Walks and Jottings. 



Layering Raspberri/ tips pretty early this year, 

 art'ii'^t you? 



Well, that depends. We usually nip them about 

 this time in August to cause a break-out of new and 

 more tips. But then these are Davison's Thorn- 

 less, being very slender growers, and we have found 

 that if nipped late such sorts make weakly plants. 

 Stronger growing kinds may be nipped and layered 

 later than this. 



How (Id yon keep the bark so well from " setting^^ 

 on your budding Pear seedlings, to ivoi-k in dry 

 iceather? 



By running through the rows often with the cul- 

 tivator, eXc, to help the 

 roots to grow thrifty 

 and long, I have little 

 trouble in this respect. 

 Yb itr P I n m n and 

 Pears are hardly af- 

 fected at all by wormn, 

 I .see; hoii^ can it be 

 accounted for? 



We sprinkled the 

 trees last spring twice 

 after the blossoms had 

 fallen with poisoned 

 water made by putting 

 a teaspoonful of Lon- 

 don Purple into a quart 

 of milk, and this then 

 into a pail of water. 

 With Page's force 

 1) u ni p we d id the 

 spraying of the trees. 

 On that one Cherry-tree 

 there, with part of its 

 leaves dead, we over- 

 did the matter. It was 

 found that a slight 

 spraying is all that is 

 needed. We had a 

 spendid Cherry crop 

 this year, the fruit be- 

 ing free from worms, 

 by using as stated. 



IVliaf do you advise 

 d o i n g ir i t h an old- 

 weedy Straicberry bed 

 that Imust rely on next 

 sea^'ion for fruit? 



Scatter sufficient 

 straw over the bed to 

 just hide the ground 



and burn it. Such a course will destroy weeds, w<>rms, 

 seed and most every other obnoxious thing without 

 doing harm to Strawberries, but be of great benefit. 



/ see those heaps of siramp muck. Do you find 

 this artich' of any value on your place? 



Yes; when it is properly composted, drawn out and 

 mixed in layers with one-fourth part of barn-yard 

 manure I consider it makes a most valuable fer- 

 tilizer for all fruit crops. 



What is the man at among the Peach trees? 



Around every tree he is applying a spoonful of 

 salt close to the head. This is done both to keep 

 the grubs away and also as a fertilizer. We find 

 the best plan is to mix salt and unleached wood 

 ashes together, say a quart of salt to a peck of 

 ashes, and put a pint of the mixture around each 

 tree. We also whitewash the tree as you see with 

 lime whitewash made thin, putting a spoonful of 

 carbolic acid and a handful of salt into each pailful. 

 This keeps grubs and vermin away and gives us 

 healthy trunks and trees. 



Hoic about Evergreens, is it safe to transplant 

 and trim them at this season? 



Yes; August to September are good months for 

 botli, only be careful to umlch heavily with coarse 

 litter and water well in dry weather. In trimming 

 we cut back the top and never the bottom, and 

 when we get a go<td bottom for the tree we then let 

 it grow, occasionally cutting back the top or side 

 branches if growing too spindling. 



give Americans a chance to grow this fruit 

 well and in abundance. 



In a good sized patch of the Industry in this 

 nursery we saw only vigorous, clean handsome 

 plants, heavily loaded with fruit. The accom- 

 panying cut is a good representation of the 

 fruit, save in color, which is tliat of a dark 

 cherry -color. The crop was very fine for young 

 plaiits and the fruit uniformly large. It is a 

 vai'iety that we shall watch with much inter- 

 est. We expect to be able to report from a 

 trial plantation of our own by next year. 



Good Things Gathered Up. 



I have learned that it is not safe to reconnnend 

 any fruit on short trial.— £". Satterwait. 



temperature that will not vary nuich from 'A)", 

 they will keep i)erfectly sound. In the (Julf Stat<?s 

 they are ke]>t hy placing them in oblong or 

 small conical piles, on a bottom of corn-stalks cov- 

 ered with long str-aw. iiiling thereon sunieient earth 

 to keep out water, giving ventilation by means of a 

 straw chimney. In a small way they must be kejtt 

 in barrels, with dry leaves between the layers of 

 potatoes in a room where the temperature will be 

 as stated. If large quantities are to be kept, a frost- 

 proof building should be erected, with projjcr ven- 

 tilation. Bins are built regularly in the building, 

 and the Potatoes placed therein mixed with air- 

 dried sand, tlie temperature and ventilation regu- 

 lated by fire or steam heat. The Potatoes should 

 not be placed in the bins until first seasoned, V>y 

 which the superabundant moisture of the Potatoes 

 is carried off, but this nuist not take place in the 

 sun. At 60^ the Potatoes will sprout, while 40° will 

 certainly chill and rot 



them.— Far »t, 

 and StocJanan. 



Field 



A Promising Gooseberry— The In- 

 dustry. 



We met this Goosebei'rv for the first time in 

 fruit on a recent visit to the grounds of Ell- 

 waiiger & Barry, Rochester, N.Y. Fora foreij^n 

 variety it certainly was a revelation to our 

 eyes, and at once lead to the question, whether 

 we have not at last found the sort that would 



A PROMISING GOOSEBERRY.— THE INDUSTRY. 



Wise Generation ! To buy foreign manures by 

 thousands of tons, and permit your home resources 

 to go to waste in river and sea. — Our Country Home. 



To prevent the splitting or bursting of Cabbages, 

 go frequently over the ground and start every Cab- 

 bage that appears to be about to mature, by push- 

 ing them over sideways. Heads thus started are 

 said to grow to double the size they had attained 

 when about to burst.—./. ./. H. Gregory. 



Sulphide of Potassium. This remedy for mildew 

 luKs now lieen extensively used by our leading gar- 

 deners. As it is a remedy at once cheap and eflfect- 

 ual, I am anxious to make its merits as widely 

 known as possible among mj"^ fellow amateurs and 

 gardeners generally. As mildew is common this year 

 [in England I. I hope every one who is troubled with 

 this pest will test the sulphide and report whether 

 it proves successful or not.— Gardening World. 



Raspberry Clearing. I have discovered an easy 

 way of clearing a field of old Raspberry bushes. 

 Fii-st i-eap them with self-raking reaper, one row at 

 a time, depositing the cut bushes in piles with the 

 self -rake. After a few days pitch three rows of 

 gavels into one and burn the brush. Then spread 

 the ashes and plough deeply under the soil the stubs 

 and all with three horses, making very narrow 

 lands. Then harrow and cross-harrow several times 

 until the roots and stubs of the Riispberiies are 

 mostly drawn and deposited by the harrows in the 

 dead-furrows between the lands. Then hitch four 

 horses to the forty-tooth harrow and run it length- 

 wise of the furrows, one man riding the harrow. 

 This drags the stubs and roots into piles Two men 

 lift the drag over these and .so on until all the roots 

 and stubs ai'e thus piled. When they have become 

 well di'ied these are burned in the field and the land 

 is ready for another crop. — Nfuj York Tribune. 



Keeping Sweet Potatoes. If dug, dried and 

 haiidle<l without braising, and kept dry, with some 

 ventilation, so that they will not sweat, and at a 



Poultry Manure. If 



the droppings of (he 

 fowls were saved thou- 

 sands of dollars" worth 

 of the very richest 

 manure might be re- 

 turned to the soil. It 

 is essential in saving 

 them up that they be 

 kept dry. To stand ex- 

 posed to rains and the 

 sun they lose their 

 valuable elements. 

 Whether one cleans the 

 dropping board once 

 each day or once each 

 week, it is much better 

 and pleasant^r to have 

 it sprinkled every 

 morning with a few 

 handfuls of dry earth 

 —a loam of sand and 

 clay mixed is best. 

 This absorbs the vola- 

 tile qualities of the 

 manure and holds them 

 until ready to be ap- 

 plied to the soil. We 

 have found poultry 

 manure, if properly 

 cared for under cover, 

 worth as much as Pa- 

 cific guano, which is 

 usuallj- worth $35 to 

 $45 per ton; mix it 

 with about the same 

 quantity of soil in boxes, barrels or bins; keep 

 it dry till you need. For vegetables it is especially 

 good, except Sweet or Irish Potatoes. It grows 

 them too much to vine. For Melons it has no su- 

 I>erior; for fruit trees it is invaluable. Poultry ma- 

 nure is far more valuable than stable manure, and 

 it is less trouble to save; if kept dry one hundred 

 fowls will give you from twelve to fifteen pounds 

 daily. — Nattiynal Stockman. 



Planting New Orchards. Of late years in the 

 older States the tendency has been to decrease the 

 amount of orcharding rather than to increase it. 

 That this policy is generally unwise is tolerably 

 certain. To those well located and on not too ex- 

 jiensive land the result of such planting will prove 

 profitable. It needs good land for orchards. While 

 the trees are growing rich soil insures thrift and 

 rapid growth. While trees that are stinted by pov- 

 erty will hear earlier, it is at the cost of vigor and 

 usefulness later on. Those planting now will not 

 make the mistake so common formerly of planting 

 a great variety only moderately productive and 

 therefore not profitable. The mistake now will be 

 the other way, in restricting varieties to one or two. 

 It is often said that there is no Apple so pn ifitable as 

 the Baldwin. This is true of many but not all 

 localities, but it will soon cease to be true anywhere 

 if all new plantings are of the Baldwin variety. 

 It is not likely that ihe world will be always or long 

 satisfied with only one kind of ai>ples, and that not 

 the best. As far as possible the same varieties of 

 apples should be planted in solid blocks It often 

 happens that apjtle ti-ees have less than a full barrel 

 in a season, and in full crops there are parts of bar- 

 I'els left over fmrii single trees. Having varieties 

 by themselves enables the Api>le pickers to finish 

 one variety before beginning another. The summer 

 and early fall Apples, as well as varieties kept 

 nuiinly for home use. should be near the house and 

 like the winter varieties in all cases as nuich in a 

 bvmch as possible.— .-ImcricrtH Cultivator. 



