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my small fruits planted the first year. 

 While you are preparing your ground, 

 make up your mind what you intend 

 to plant and not wait for some tree 

 agent to come along and tell you. There 

 are always lots of these fellows around 

 ready to show you in their catalogues 

 and plate books, any amount of varie- 

 ties which, if taken according to direc- 

 tions, tfec, <fec., will make you rich in 

 about six months. /In experience if 

 nothing else. ) Don't buy all they offer 

 you, if you do you will have too much 

 fruit : besides it will be a fruitful 

 source of annoyance to you to dig 

 them out and plant them over after 

 you have gi*own them a year or two. 

 Find out from your neighbor, or through 

 the reports of the Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation and the Horticulturist what 



VARIETIES 



succeed and pay best in your immediate 

 locality, and plant these varieties. It 

 is not best, as the saying is, to " put all 

 of your eggs in one basket," but if you 

 ai-e near to a good market a general 

 assortment may be gi'own, from berries 

 currants, grapes, »fec., up to the larger 

 fruits. Some seasons one or more kinds 

 may fail and you will want to have 

 others to depend on. If you are far 

 from a market the shipping qiialities of 

 the fruits should be taken into consider- 

 ation in making your selections. After 

 you have made up your mind what you 

 want, send your order direct to some 

 reliable nurseryman — with instructions 

 not to substitute — instead of havinsr it 

 placed on the blank of some traveling 

 agent on which this clause is always 

 printed : " If you cannot su[)ply all the 

 varieties named you can substitute other 

 varieties considered by you equally 

 desirable " — which means you will get 

 whatever he likes to send you. 



Have your grounds properly laid out 

 before planting and plant each variety i 

 separately as much as possible and place 

 those varieties which ripen at the same I 



time near together, for convenience in 

 gathering the fruit. Keep 



A MAP OF YOUR GROUNDS 



SO if you want plants or scions of any 

 particular variety at any time you may 

 know just where to find them. " Be 

 sure you are right and then go ahead " 

 is a good motto for fruit growers. Get 

 the right location, right soil rightly 

 prepared, set the right varieties, and 

 you are on the right I'oad to success ; 

 providing right cidtivation and care is 

 taken, of which I may write in mv 

 next article. 



J^lotDers. 



WINTER FLOWERING BULBS. 



BY HERMAN SIMMERS, TORONTO. 



In our former letters we have drawn 

 the attention of the readers of the 

 Horticulturist to some practical hints 

 about the care of winter flowei'ing bulbs; 

 but we must trespass the least bit from 

 that line and think a little of the future. 

 In the meantime we will allow the 

 various bulbs to finish their growth and 

 in our next issue we will speak of their 

 after care. We purpose in thLs issue 

 then to speak about the 



DOUBLE TUBEROSE. 



This bulb has been tried frequently by 

 the amateur witii almost in every case 

 a failure, mainly due to the subject not 

 being bi-ought before his notice at the 

 proper season of the year for planting. 

 The varieties of the Tuberose that are 

 generally gi-own are the Large Double 

 and the Pearl. The former variety is 

 not so much grown, principally on 

 account of its long stems ; the latter 

 variety is more popular on account of 

 its extremely dwarf habit. Its height 

 is about two feet and therefore it is 

 better adajjted both for the amateur and 

 the professional. The proper time for 

 starting the Tuberose is during this 

 month, when after treating it in a 



