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number of years. It should be renewed every three or foar 

 years. Cutting off a portion of the roots has also been tried 

 on some of my trees, and apparently with benefit. 



The raspberry chiefly cultivated is the red Antwerp; but 

 it requires to be laid down every autumn, and covered with 

 earth or straw to protect it from the freezing and thawing of 

 our variable winters. Plants which stand under the north 

 side of a fence or a building bear the winter in a manner un- 

 harmed. This is also the case with the Madeira grape vine 

 and Greville rose, both of which are killed if exposed to the 

 mid-day sun of winter, but live uninjured if grown in a north- 

 em shaded exposure. The gooseberry and some of the for- 

 eign grapes, especially the white Chasselas and black Ham- 

 burgh, are very liable to be injured by mould or rust. For 

 this lime and sulphur water is a pretty certain remedy, if ap- 

 pHed in season; but we hope to remove this, as well as many 

 other troublesome pesis, as soon as Mr. Ha^erston's remedy 

 can be procured, a solution of fish-oil soap. The rose slug, 

 for which this remedy was discovered, has latterly been very 

 destructive to the foliage of my strawberry plants, especially 

 Keen's seedling and the pine-apple, but a thorough wetting 

 with the new remedy, I hope, will hereafter remove the evil. 

 The " upholster bee"' has latterly been nearly as troublesome 

 as the slug to our smooth leaved roses and some other plants, 

 such as Champney's multiflora, and the Otaheite and Wistaria 

 frutescens, cutting two or three large elliptical pieces firom 

 nearly every leaf. 



Early CrcuMBERs. 



For out of door cidture, and to those who do not vrish to be 

 at the trouble of a frame, my manner of raising this desirable 

 vegetable may perhaps be useful to some of your readers. 

 Early in April, or generally when the peach is in blossom, 

 take the dish of a flower pot, or bason, and fill it half full of 

 loose rich earth or chip manure. On this scatter a quantity 

 of the seeds of the early Russian cucumber, and cover them 

 with a folded flannel cloth of two or more thicknesses. On 

 this pour scalding hot water, suficient to wet the whole thor- 

 oughly, set it in a warm place near the stove or fire-place, and 

 keep the whole moist by occasional sprinklings with warm 

 water. In two or three days they will germinate, and when 

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