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excellent, tender and sweet. The second one, Scrceder's Muscat Hybrid, (Fig. 

 542), is in size from medium to large, with yellow skin and fine red stripes,closed 

 calyx and yellowish, juicy flesh, sub-acid taste, ripens in January. This apple is 

 destined to have a great future in very cold countries, as in hardiness it is not 

 excelled by the wild Siberians. 



Fig. 542 — Scrceder's Muscat Hybrid. 



I received from south-western Siberia a species of wild apple, of which the 

 leaves only are greenish red, and the rest, as bloom, bark, fruit and flesh, is all 

 red. This native species has no botanical name, and it certainly will become a 

 very ornamental tree in our public parks. It will also have some value as a 

 fruit tree, because it bears a small apple of good quality, which ripens in winter. 

 When my tree has made some growth I will send you some scions. 



Rake the lawn, removing sticks, stones and other rubbish you may find 

 upon it, repair the bare patches, and roll it over to leave all clean and even 

 for the mower. The best tool to use on a fairly good lawn is a close-toothed 

 wooden rake, it takes off all the rubbish without ruffling the earth. But where 

 the grass has been left quite long and it has died and matted on the ground, a 

 large steel-toothed rake removes it best. In the event of bare spots where the 

 lawn grasses had been killed out by last summer's drough, or smothered by crab 

 grass, with the steel-toothed rake scratch off the dead grass, at the same time 

 ruffling the surface of the ground a little, then sow some grass seed on it, and 

 roll it. 



