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planters would observe the following 

 details, 1 think there could be no 

 fault-finding with fall planting. 



1st. Get your trees dii-ect from the 

 nursery, iind don't allow someone else 

 to do it for you, and leave them on the 

 road or railway station for two or three 

 weeks to freeze and thaw. 



2nd. Never " heel in " but plant at 

 once with care and without undue 

 exposure ; stake them. 



3i'd. Plant nothing too tender for 

 the climate of your locality (except for 

 experiment) because if it does not dis- 

 appoint you the first year it is sure to 

 do so some day. J. H. WISMER. 



Port Elgin. 



Pruning the Quince. — Mr. W. W. 

 Meech, who has achieved signal success 

 in quince culture, leports the following 

 system of pruning in the Farm Journal: 



"After the leaves fall in Autum-U 

 and before they start in Spi'ing I go 

 over every trfe and cut back every 

 shoot. If a foot growth was made the 

 year before, cut off half of it; if two 

 feet, a little more than half, and if three 

 feet grew, it will pay to cut off nearly 

 tv/o-tliiids of it. A judicious thinning 

 out of older wood will also l)e found 

 desirable. Then when the new growth 

 starts, rub off the weaker buds so as to 

 let but one shoot remain at each. As 

 generally grown, the quince is too weak 

 to have more than one shoot at a bud, 

 but as I handle my trees, two, three 

 and even four shoots often seek to grow 

 from the same place. This method of 

 severe pruning has been condemned as 

 being unnatural. But experience 

 proves the wisdom of this severe pruning 

 of the wood and of an equally severe 

 pruning of the fruit." 



I think the Horticulturist is gaining 

 in value, giving with each number, a 

 cheap fund of knowleilge for fruit 

 growers. A SUBSCUIBER. 



ASHES AS A FERTILIZER. 



For vineyards, all things considered, 

 I i-egard unleached ashes the best fer- 

 tilizer known. A ton of hardwood 

 ashes contains 320 pounds of potash, 

 worth $1G, 105 pounds of phos[)horic 

 acid (insoluble) worth ^5.25. Omit- 

 ting all the other ash constituents, 

 which have some value of themselves, 

 the potash and phosphoric acid of a ton 

 of such ashes are worth $21.25, or 

 nearly six times the value of a ton of 

 fresh horse dung. — President Fhillips, 

 West Mich Hart. Sac. 



SHIPPING UNRIPE GRAPES. 



I wish to say, and also to impress 

 it upon the mind and memory of 

 every gmpe grower present, that there 

 is nothing so disastrous to the grape ' 

 market as the shipping of green grapes 

 eai-ly in the season. It is suie to bring 

 prices down to a low point, and once 

 down it is hard to bring them up 

 again. The consumer who has been 

 waiting patiently for the gra{)e season 

 to open, buys them with the expecta- 

 tion of finding them I'ipe and delicious ; 

 but instead tinds them sour and unfit 

 to eat. The consequence is it will be 

 some time before he will try his chance 

 again. Thus the market becomes 

 seriously damaged at the outset. — 

 President Phillips. 



Artificial clouds were recently 

 made for the protection of vines from 

 frosts at Pagny, on the Franco- German 

 Frontier. Liquid tar was ignited in 

 tin boxes, and pieces of solid tar on the 

 ground near the vines. Large clouds 

 of smoke arose and protected the vine- 

 yard for two hours. Although vines 

 in the neighborhood were injured by 

 the frost, all that remained under the 

 clouds were left uninjured. Of course 



