The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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Setting" Onion Plants. — Few things in market-gardening have pleased 

 me as much as this onion plant business. We have pushed the plants pretty 

 freely with guano ; and if the tops get so tall as to begin to lop over, we shear 

 them off. The onions are so tenacious of life that I have seen every one grow 

 in a long row through a large field, when the planting was done by school boys 

 so small that I feared they would not be able to do it successfully. The ground 

 was fine and mellow, and as it was just after a rain, all that the boys did was to 

 push the onions down into the ground with their forefingers, and then press a 

 little earth on top of them. No matter how crookediy they stuck them into the 

 ground, they all stood up straight in a few days. The ground was marked out 

 for onion plants with a wheat-drill, running a good dressing of fertilizer into the 

 ground at the same time that it was marked. We plant the onions in every 

 other drill-mark. — Root's Gleanings. 



BaPPOW-Marker. — A good marker to mark out small pieces of ground 

 without a horse is made by securing a simple attach- 

 ^fi ment to a wheelbarrow. Take a 2x2 inch stick, A, 



1 :..\\ 4 feet long, or longer if desired, whittled down per- 



fectly round to within one foot of the end to be 

 attached to the barrow. Take a piece of strong 

 hoop-iron and shape it as shown at B, making a ring 

 to slip on the stick. Take two pieces of the hoop- 

 iron, C, for holding the marker-stick in position in 

 front of the first brace. Slip the iron on the mark- 

 ing-stick to the width desired for the row, and to 

 keep it there bore a hole with a gimlet close to it on 

 either side, in which insert an eight or ten-penny 

 nail. The wheel will make a better mark than one 

 would suppose, while the iron marks for the next row. — Farm and Home. 



Barrow-Marker. — Fig. 522. 



Evergreen Seeds. — Seeds of Norway spruce may be gathered just as 

 soon as the cones mature. The seeds may be sown in a cold frame in the fall 

 and protected during the winter. They will germinate in the spring. They may 

 also be sown in fiats and kept under cover, being careful [to avoid extremes of 

 dryness or moisture. 



The Mulberry, according to Bulletin 46, from Cornell, is quite under- 

 valued. Though there is no demand for the fruit in the markets, it is well worth 

 growing for home use, being valuable for dessert. 



