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Can any readers reply concerning 

 the tarred paper ? The plan of starting,' 

 bon-fires tliroughout the vineyard on 

 frosty nights has been tried in America 

 as well as in France, and carefully 

 managed, may succeed if the material is 

 at hand and set on fire just at the 

 right time. 



Cutting back Peach Trees. 



95. C.W you give me .some information coii- 

 ceniinij the ])roi)er time for priiniiif,'- or 

 cutting back this year'.s growth of peach 

 trees. Some recommend its being done now, 

 in order to throw them into full bearing the 

 next year. Mine have grown most rami)antly. 

 The trees are some I set out two years old, 

 three years ago, and others the same ages 

 were taken up a year ago last spring. If it be 

 safe and beneficial to cut this year's growth 

 back, how much should be taken off? Any 

 further information or suggestion you will 

 kindly afford me, will greatly oblige. — Wm.liam 



McMlKKAY. 



TiiK shorteniny in system of pruning 

 the peach tree has been long practised 

 by the £nost careful peach growers Ijoth 

 in the United States and in England, 

 with the most evident benefit both in 

 prolonging the life of the tree, and in 

 the increase of the size of the fruit. 

 Everyone knows what an ugly object 

 an un pruned peach tree soon becomes ; 

 its black ugly trunk, and straggling 

 branches bare of foliage, except at the 

 extremity, are an eyesore to its owner : 

 but this mode of pruning will keep the 

 tree in a healthy, vij^orous state, witli 

 abundance of fresh young wood and 

 dense foliage. It consists simply in 

 cutting off one half or more of the last 

 year's growth all over the tree ; or if 

 a tree has been neglected, it may be cut 

 well back into the old wood. This 

 should b(! repeated year after year, and 

 thus the tree kept in a well rounded 

 sh.ape, and a luxuriant growth result 

 each season. 



We have never practised cutting 

 back the peach trees in the fall, be 

 cause too occupied with the fruit 

 harvest and other iniportant fall work 

 at that season. The usual time is in 

 early spring, but we see no reason why 

 it should not be performed in October, 

 as soon as the sunnner's growth is 

 completed. 



Morse's Seedling Harvest Apple. 



Dkah SKci'.CT.MiV. 1 iii.iil you iicn- t.i-(hiya 

 package coiitaiiiiiig .specimens (if my Seedling 

 Harvest Apple, picked on the 8th inst., average 

 size, neither tlie largest nor the smallest, but not 

 eriual in flavour to those grown on original tree 

 which I removed in tiie spring and therefore 

 not in bearing this year. The fiuit sent is from 

 buds inserted in anotlier seedling whicli 1 

 suspect has reduced the flavour. The Seedling 

 Harvest is superior to the old in size. It is a 

 regular good bearer. Has never througii all 

 our "Test Sea.sons " shown the least ^' spot," 

 when the old was regularly and utterly ruined. 

 Never anything like "Leaf Blight." It is a 

 very vigorous grower Time of ripening, same 

 as old variety, earlier if any difference. We are 

 a week or ten days later than generallv. — S. P. 

 MoKSE, Miltim. 



Judging from tlie samples sent us 

 by Mr. Morse, his seedling is all he 

 claims for- it. The fruit is above 

 medium size, and round inform, while 

 the Early Harvest is medium in size, 

 and roundish oblate. The skin is very 

 smooth with obscure white dots of a 

 straw color, Ijut not so bright as the 

 Early Harvest. The Stem is shorter 

 and stouter and set in a deeper and 

 more irregular cavity. Calyx closed, 

 set in a round basin, deeper and more 

 regular than that of the Early 

 Harvest. Flesh white, tender, juicy, 

 sub-acid, but lacking the crispness, and 

 the sprightly flavour of th(; Early 

 Harvest. 



However, its tine size, its earliness 

 and freedom f?"oni spots, commend it to 

 the notice of fruit growers with whom 

 the Early Harvest does not succeed ; 

 coming, as it does, in advance of the 

 latter, it should command a high prict? 

 in our markets. 



Aylesworth's Seedling Apple. 



I send by express to you to-day a small box 

 of my Seedling Apjile. The season is late 

 here and it has been very dry. Yet I liave 

 been eating them— mostly such a.s liad been 

 stung about a,fortnifjht. I send a 8ami)le to you 

 for your opinion. We are all (I suppose) in- 

 clined to a favourable oi)ini<m of our own. 

 Hence the use of the opinion of others after 

 searching us out. Any way I have eaten of 

 them without harm a larger number these two 

 or tiiree years, from tlie hand, than I did of all 

 kinds in twenty years before that.- J. U. 

 Ayi.ksworth, Collin'iiwooil, 16^;/;/., 1888. 



This apple is al.so above mediuni size, 

 and rather larger than the preceding, 



