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1,113. Killing Locust Trees. Peel the trunks 

 from the ground ui> live or six feet as early in 

 the season as the luirk will come off easy, make 

 a clean job of it to the sap wood, then let them 

 remain until they die root and braneh.— N. E. 



1,113. Bowing Sweet Peas. Sweet Peas should 

 be sown quite as carlyin thesiirin;;as the ground 

 can be woikcil; if the srcd can In- plantt-d early 

 in April a^'ood su|iply of Howits is almost cer- 

 tain. We try \\A\- (Host on) to plant liclore April 

 15, but it is not alwa.Ns p(.ssil)lc. of course Sweet 

 Peas are planted all tliioutrh the sea.son but the 

 earlier planteil the better.— M. U. Faxon. 



1,130. Focklington Qrape Grafting. Any good 

 varieties of Grapes can be grafted on your 

 Pocklington. You can- 

 not get damages if you 

 have the true Pockling 

 tons as It is all that was 

 claimed for it in many 

 places. No one fruit 

 succeeds everywhere.— 

 Chas. Black. 



1,126. Propagating 

 Grapes by Grafting or 

 Cuttings. Cuttings will 

 atford you the easiest 

 way of increasing your 

 stock. They may be 

 made from prunings 

 at any time during the 

 winter, and kept in a 

 damp cellar, or else 

 buried outside until 

 spring when they can 

 be planted out in a deep 

 well enriched border, 

 in a sunny situation, 

 and placed in rows one 

 foot apart, the cuttings 

 three inches apart in the 

 row, set so that the top 

 eye or bud is above the 

 ground — care must be 

 taken to firm them well 

 in the soil. The cuttings 

 should be made from 

 the young well ripened 

 shoots of the pre\nous 

 year's growth and can 

 be made with two or 

 three buds or eyes. 

 Grafting can only be 

 employed to advantage 

 in working over inferior 

 varieties.— C. E. P. 



1,12.-). About the Non- 

 kinking Garden Hose. 

 We think you refer 

 probably to hose wound 

 with spiral wire, as was 

 done by some parties 

 last year ; it costs about 

 three cents per foot ti > 

 wind hose with wire and 

 most of the hose used 

 was of the cheapest 

 grade; to a certain ex- 

 tent it prevents it from 

 kinking but the wire 

 soon gets rusty from 

 the water and not only 

 loses its elasticity but it 

 also, if stepped upon, 

 gets bent and makes 

 dents in the hose that 

 do not easily come out. 

 It is to our notion a 

 humbug, yet any hose 

 can be wrapped if de- 

 sired in quantities; b\it 

 a good hose well taken 

 care of will last three 

 times as long as an.v 

 hose we have ever seen 

 wrapped with wire. — 

 Goodyear Rubber Co. 



1,1U. Onion Seed. 

 Onion seed is generally 



Charles Ijefebvre, Duke of Edinburgh, Fisher 

 Holmes, General Jaccineminot, ,lohn Hopper, 

 Madam Gabriel Luizet, (to my mind the most 

 beautiful rose that exists) Marc|uisedi'i asti-llane 

 and Jules Margottin. It is very hard lor lue to 

 stop at twelve as I have in my mind tweh c more 

 beauties, but, as stated, the above are very choice 

 and, if every reader of Popular Gaiidenino 

 would buy this eolleetion and set them out this 

 spring they ma,\' expect some Hoses that are 

 Roses in the years to come. — M. B. F. 



1,115. Peas for Market. We have so many, 

 excellent Peas it is difficult to pick out any par- 

 ticular sorts and say they are the best, the follow- 

 ing varieties I know are good and anyone plant- 



1,092. Dahlias Turning Yellow. You must 

 have, in some way, mixed the roots referred to. 

 If the collection of tubers was from choice kinds 

 when stored in the fall ami the same roots were 

 planted in the spring, the flowers could not 

 possibly have been yellow. There is a mistake 

 somewhere.— M. B. Faxon. 



G-rapc 'rrniniii'j '" 



considered to be good only one season and seeds- 

 men try to always sell new seed. I have kno^vn 

 cases where Onion seed three years old germin- 

 ated perfectly well, but as a rule buy only new 

 seed.— M. B. Fa.xon. 



1,093. Building a Rockery ; Suitable Plants. 

 Taste is necessary in building a Rockery ; after 

 the stones have been piled as desired fill all the 

 cre\ices with good loam which should be 

 thoroughly mixed with plenty of good manure. 

 Running plants of all kinds can be used; an es- 

 pecially good one is Running Nasturtium iTro- 

 pirnhnn L"ltln'(nnnnJ the flowers are smaller than 

 those ot the Tall .\asturtium but the colors are 

 more brilliant. This is a su]ierb plant and every- 

 one should plant some.— M. B. Faxon. 



1,116. The Best Hardy Boses. A more diffi- 

 cult question it would be impossible to ask as no 

 two Rose growers absolutely agree as to what 

 sorts make up the best twelve ; but no mistake 

 will be made if the following varieties are set 

 out, they are all iierfectly hardy and adapted to 

 general cultivation :— Alfred Colomb, Anna do 

 Diesbach, Annie Wood, Baroness Rothschilds, 



I'lle Stake. A Four Year Delaware Tine occupying sain 

 hy fiiur hille of Corn. 



ing them will have delicious Peas. For early, 

 plant Earliest of All, F^rst and Best, Kentish 

 Invicta or Daniel O'Rourke; for medium— Mc- 

 Leans Advancer, Bliss' American Wonder, and 

 Strategem ; and for late crop use — Yorkshire 

 Hero, Champion of England; and if you wish 

 Black Eye Marrowfat. 1 might have classed 

 Bliss' American Wonder among the early sorts 

 but as this Pea is a green wrinkled variety and 

 cannot be planted as early as the hard white Peas 

 I classed it as medium.— M. B. Faxon. 



1,101. Japan Chestnut Grafting. No, not to 

 grow; use the native Chestnut for stocks.— N. E. 



1,109. Beefsteak Geranium, Saxifrage Sar- 

 mentosa is sometimes called Beefsteak Geranium, 

 also Strawberry Geranium.— N. E. 



1,097. Kieffer Pear Hardy. The best Pear 

 growers do not recommend this Pear for general 

 cultivation in Ohio.-M. B. Faxon. 



1,137. Onion Sets Growing. E. C. C. probably 

 does not plant the proper seed to raise good Onion 

 sets; seed for Onion sets is entirely different 

 from the seed large Onions are raised from.— 

 M. B. Faxon. 



Grape Culture Simplified. The Single 

 Post System of Training. 

 " While you will find many amateur and 

 professional Grape growers pitching into 

 my single stake system of raising Grapes," 

 Director W.A.Henry, 

 of the Wisconsin Ex- 

 periment Station, 

 writes to us, "yet I 

 cannot help saying 

 that we raise Grapes 

 abundantly, cheaply, 

 anil in a manner 

 practical for farmers 

 and others who may 

 be somewhat horti- 

 culturally inclined. I 

 think there is a world 

 of nonsense in Grape 

 growing, as there is 

 in bee raising; each 

 enthusiast claims 

 iliat his is the only 

 way. The result of 

 in immense amount 

 if talk about training 

 .ind pruning with the 

 elaborate illustra- 

 tions and directions 

 for management, 

 tends to discourage 

 many from planting 

 (irape vines, so that 

 I lie business falls to 

 a few specialists 

 w hile the multitude 

 no without Grapes. 



Our; system, if it 

 deserves to be called 

 a system, is not ad- 

 vanced in competi- 

 tion with the work of 

 specialists and ama- 

 teurs but to get 

 plainer minds at 

 work in a new direc- 

 tion where there 

 seems to be possibili- 

 ties of fair success." 

 In a recent report 

 from the Wisconsin 

 Station, Professor 

 Henry makes quite 

 a detailed reference 

 to his simplified 

 method of Grape 

 Lcrowing, the sub- 

 stance of which infor- 

 mation we give as 

 follows: 



Prepare the soil as 

 for Corn, and plant 

 the vines eight feet 

 apart each way. Never allow the roots to 

 become dry by exposure to the air; dig 

 large holes and spread the roots with the 

 hands when filling in over them with earth. 

 Training and Pruning. Set a seven 

 foot post two feet in the ground at planting 

 time. Train the vine to this, cutting back 

 at the end of the season to two buds. For 

 the first couple of years do not expect fruit, 

 but aim to get not less than four canes to 

 start close to the ground. Train these to 

 the post, cutting bsick each fall. Canes thus 

 pruned after a year or two will bear some 

 fruit, but later, the fruit will come from 

 buds borne on spurs, (side shoots) on these. 

 Aim to never have less than four canes on 

 each vine, each of which has from three to 

 five spurs which carry about three buds 

 each when pruned. When the canes attain 

 considerable size cut one out each season. 



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