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oughly around the crown of the roots, it is also a great preventive of the 



louse. We have never been troubled with this pest of apple-trees, when 



they have been thoroughly soaped. Keep the trees vigorous, and the 



insects will be much less likely to attack them. Strong soap-suds act botli 



as a preventive and a remedy. While they are death to the insect, they 



give life to the tree. They are, therefore, the ounce of prevention and the 



pound of cure. 



Alexander Hyde. 



CULTURE OF THE GRAPE IN CITIES. 



When they whose lives are pent up within city-homes escape at rare 

 intervals to the country, and find their friends luxuriating in domains 

 whose area is told off by the acre, not the running foot, and amidst whose 

 almost unbounded amplitude 



" Blossoms and fruits and flowers promiscuous rise," 



the unconscious sigh escapes from their laboring breast ; and " Oh that ! " 

 ushers in some specific desire expressive of their sad condition. 



City-yards, no doubt, are small. One or two peach or half a dozen 

 dwarf-pear trees would exhaust their capacity. One of those straggling 

 vines in which the country rejoices would almost remand them to their 

 pristine wilderness-state. Nevertheless, experience has fully shown that 

 cities are the true place for the perfect development of the grape, and 

 that yards of very moderate size are amply large for the rearing of a goodly 

 assortment of the choicest kinds. 



It has been demonstrated by actual culture during many years, both in 

 Europe and America, not only that a space, or section of trellis, ten feet 

 long and one and a half or two feet in height, is sufficient for the demands 

 of one vine, but that vines thus confined produce grapes of a finer flavor 

 than can be obtained by the old system. 



Having tested the matter to his satisfaction, let the writer present the 

 subject in some detail, — not for the instruction of the experienced horti- 



