THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



more certainly and quickly if it be first soaked for a few hours in warm 

 >/ater, just before planting. AVlien the young plants have grown to a 

 .eight af about three inches they will require to be thinned out so as 

 I ( ) stand from four to five inches apart. The young Beets that are pulled 

 u p in thinning out make most excellent greens, cooked tops and all. By 

 aking out only a part at a time, the tal)le can be supplied with these 

 rreens for some days. 



In growing beets for table use it is not wise to endeavor to have 

 hem as large as it is possible to grow them. Overgrown beets are 

 usually coarse, and lacking in flavor. A good beet is close and com- 

 ])act, fine grained, free from fibre, and smooth. For winter use the 

 writer is in the habit of making a second sowing of the Early Blood 

 Turnip-Beet about the end of June ; these will keep sweet and good 

 ^nitil June, if stored in a cold cellar — if kept in a warm cellar they 

 -•se their £i"eshness and flavor. 



SHxVLL WE GKAFT OYEPt OLlJ OlICHAKDS. 



i3Y 11. IVES, BATAVIA, N. Y. 



Aiier considi'iable experience in grafting old orchards on different 

 arms, I have come to the decided conviction that it is better to plant 

 lut young, grafted trees of the sorts desired, than to graft over an 

 ■rchard of old trees. I wished to change an orchard of Northern Spy, 

 A'hich liad just begun to bear, into Baldwins ; and thinking that the 

 -rafting of these thrifty young trees could be done to as good advantage 

 iS it ever could in any case. I put in from four to six gTafts into 

 ■ach tree, which cost me about the same as new trees. Now I am 

 iiot at all pleased with my work. The symmetry and beauty of the 

 iree-top is destroyed, and after the best has been done that can be done 

 10 develop well-balanced tops from these grafts, they will have the 

 ppearance of having been bungled. In the case of old trees it is worse 

 \et; it is more expensive, because more grafts must be set, more 

 Lrimming done, and the work performed at great disadvantage. It is 

 not, in my opinion, profitable to make such an orchard as satisfactory 

 in appearance or as profitable in the end, as an orchard newly planted 

 with young trees. The old trees will pay for the new trees if dug up 



