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when the buds are breaking, be sure to soak the border thoroughly ; water afterwards as 

 needed. If the rafters are placed three feet apart from centre to centre, which they should 

 be, then a vine can be planted under each of the rafters, and trained under the rafters, thus 

 giving to the laterals the full benefit of the glass, that is, of the light. If the house is 46 

 feet long, inside measurement, it will hold eleven vines. Train up only one stem under 

 each rafter. 



Vines for Gold Vinery. 



Black Hamburg, Muscat Hamburgh, Royal Muscadine, Chasselas Musqne, Grizzly 

 Frontignan, Golden Champion. 



I note that Mr. Collins proposes to plant some of our hardy or native grapes in the vinery, 

 such as the Catawba, Salem and Mills. I am under the impression that those who have 

 tried growing native grapes under glass have not been satisfied with the results, but on this 

 point cannot speak from either experience or observation. It seems to me that he could 

 buy them at Pelee Island and pay the freight to Listowel at a much less cost than growing 

 them under glass. 



Permit me to add that it is always desirable to have some means of heating even a cold 

 grapery, for it often happens that the warm days of sprinsr are followed by a period of 

 chilly weather accompanied by frosty nights, and unless the temperature of the house 

 ■can be kept up, the vines become severely chilled, and sometimes in a single night they 

 will receive a shock from which they will not recover for some time. 



A NOVEL MODE OF SELLING APPLES. 



[R. GEO. W. SHAW, of Garden Grove, Iowa, gave his mode of selling 

 apples before the State Horticultural Society. He hires a car, and 

 •divides it into bins of about five feet wide, leaving a passage-way along one side. 

 He places about six inches of clean prairie hay in bottom, and then fills in his 

 apples, keeping the kind separate by means of these bins. He finds that he can 

 in this way put about one thousand bushels in a car, which is more than can be 

 put in a car in barrels, and saves their expense besides, for at the end of the 

 journey he sells the lumber for about first cost. 



He says there is no other way in which apples can be shipped and bruised as 

 little as in this. The freight only amounts to about ten cents a bushel for a 

 ■distance of five or six hundred miles. He arranges the apples tastefully, by 

 contrasting colors in different bins ; thus, Grimes' Golden and Yellow Belleflower 

 contrast well with Jonathan and Fameuse. 



When he arrives at a town, for of course he markets his own fruit and thus 

 saves all commission, he first buys a few apples to get the market price, hires 

 an intelligent, honest man to assist in measuring, and then advertises freely. 



In canvassing for orders he addresses himself to customers somewhat as 

 follows : — 



We have at the depot, in our own car, 1,000 bushels of apples of our own growing ; 

 Fameuse for present use ; Jonathan, Grimes' Golden, Northern Spy, and Wagner for early 

 winter. Ben Davis, Willow Twig and Rawle's Genet to do until strawberry time next 

 spring. Remember that the apples you buy at the stores pay nearly or quite a half dozen 

 profits ; the banker has his for the money which he loans the shipper, the wholesale and 

 retail men have theirs ; now we can afford to divide the profits with you. 



