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3. Be careful not to give too much 

 -water. Your glass covering prevents 

 rapid evaporation. Use your own good 

 common sense, and water when the soil 

 seems to be getting dry. Let it be moist 

 only, not wet or sodden. No set time 

 for watering can be given. 



WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY. 



We have just closed the Annual 

 Meeting of our Fruit Grrowers' Asso- 

 ciation. Had a very successful fruit 

 convention in connection with it. I 

 am much pleased with the Canadian 

 Horticulturist. It certainly meets a 

 pressing want as fruit growers need 

 definite information, not hap-hazard 

 conjecture. . Your fellow worker, 



J. R. Hart. 



Bridgetown, Nova Scotia. 



We take eleven papers and there is 

 not one that I welcome with so much 

 pleasure as the Canadian Horticul- 

 turist. Valentine Dynes. 



Relessy, Ont. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



TOMATOES. 



Dear Sir, — For the last two years 

 I have tried the experiment of training 

 Tomatoes on the trellis system, and 

 have found it to answer admirably, at 

 least on a small scale. I have a wood- 

 shed which faces south-east, and has 

 just frontage enough to allow me to 

 plant five good strong plants two feet 

 apart. These cover the unsightliness 

 of the shed, and give my family as 

 many Tomatoes as they can eat in the 

 ripe, uncooked state, and as many as 

 they require for sweet pickles, &c. I 

 planted the " General Grant," which 

 bore and ripened, from the bottom to 

 the top, and which grew to the height 



of eleven feet six inches. I set the 

 plants fifteen inches from the bottom of 

 the shed, which gave them a good slope. 

 I use good strong uprights, and put the 

 cross-pieces a foot above each other. 

 Trim out weak shoots and tie up strong 

 ones. R. C. 



GROWING STRAWBERRIES FOR 

 PROFIT. 



To make strawberries give the great- 

 est net returns, there are many things 

 to be taken into consideration. You 

 must get the greatest number of quarts 

 of good fruit, with the least possible 

 outlay in labor, manure, etc. 



The plan I have adopted, and which 

 I believe to be the best for those who 

 have land enough to do so, is to plant 

 out a new plantation every spring, as 

 it takes much less labor to plant out 

 and care for a new plantation than to 

 clean out the old one ; and you always 

 get the best fruit from a new plan- 

 tation. 



The soil should be prepared the sea- 

 son before you want to plant, either 

 by summer-fallowing or ploughing un- 

 der a good crop of clover and thorough- 

 ly working ; and for a clay loam, which 

 is best, if not already under-drained, 

 by all means have it under-ckained be- 

 fore planting ; plough up the last time 

 in fall, before the land gets very wet. 

 If your soil is a dry, sandy loam, it 

 may be ploughed in spring ; but if clay 

 ■loam, it should not, as it will dry out 

 more easily, and will not work up so 

 fine and mellow. In early spring, soon 

 as the land will work up fine and mel- 

 low, cultivate deep with a two-horse 

 cultivator, harrow down level and fine, 

 then mark off with corn marker in rows 

 four feet apart, and plant from one to 

 one and one-half feet apart in the row. 

 The greatest care should be taken not 

 to let the plants dry any while plant- 

 ing ; do not take too many at once in 

 your pail ; sprinkle a little tine earth 



