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Z. — Can you tell me where the Italian dwarf peach-trees can be obtained, 

 und the price? — We believe Hoopes Eros., West Chester, Penn., have the 

 trees for sale. We do not know the price. 



Should I be likely to be successful in raising some of the smaller growing 

 t::rapes, like the Delaware, lona, Allen's Hybrid, and Rebecca, in pots, so that 

 1 could carry them into the cellar or move them ? — Yes : put them in pots and 

 treat just as you would peach-trees in pots. 



If such a plan would promise success, what kinds would you recommend to 

 plant ? how large a pot ? what method of training? when best to transfer to the 

 cellar, and when to bring them out ? would they do better to be put into cellar ? 

 and what is the best kind of soil ? — Plant any variety you please, avoiding, pos- 

 sibly, the most rampant growers. Pots twelve orfout'een inches in diameter 

 answer very well : some use a larger size. Train spirally, or :3 a I'ght vvire or 

 other trellis, such as is used on which to train climbing greenhouse p'.ints. 

 Transfer to the cellar after the leaves have fallen, and before severe freezing 

 weather. Bring them out after all danger is over of late frosts in the spring. 

 We think there might be an advantage in putting them in the cellar as a protec- 

 tion. We hardly know what would be the best soil ; but we should advise a mix- 

 ture such as is used to form a grape-border, using leaf-mould to considerable 

 extent, with some sand. 



E. B. A., Ohio, says, " My Logan, Delaware, Isabella, and Catawba grapes 

 have done very well the past year. My lona vines do not bear; and I fear they 

 never will, as they grow more slowly than any vine I have ever attempted to 

 raise. For this latitude, we have no grape for table-use superior to the old 

 Catawba : thoroughly ripened, it is a very delieious grape." 



Orch.\rdist, Illinois. — Will it be better for me to allow my apple-trees to 

 form low, compact, and bushy heads ? or to trim them up so that I can easily 

 plough and drive among them ? — Adopt the former mode, for several reasons. 

 The trees and fruit suffer less from the sweeping winds when kept low, the fruit 

 can be more easily picked, and the trees are generally more thrifty and healthy. 



S. J. C, Washington, D.C. — Do you consider the Doyenne de Comice a 

 desirable variety ? — Yes : it has proved so wherever we have heard from it. 

 The only objection that we have ever heard against it is, that the new wood is 

 sometimes rather tender, and is killed by the winter. 



A. C, North Adams, Mass. — Can I find a better tree to plant by the road- 

 side than the sugar-maple ? — There is no better or cleaner tree foi that purpose. 

 The Norway maple is also an admirable tree. 



T. G., Boston. — As I intend to plant more pear-trees in the spring, please 

 inform me if the quince stock can safely be used on soil not very heavy. — It 

 Will be better to plant standards if your soil is light. Dwarfs prefer a moist, 

 rich soil : with extra care, they will do tolerably well on a rather light soi . 



