126 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



SPREADING MANURE. 



Sir,— Will you please tell me if it is a good plan to spread well rotted manure in the 

 trenches that are prepared for grape vines and raspberry plants ? W. M. M. 



Fertilizers of all kinds will have much better effect upon the vines and plants 

 if they are thoroughly incorporated with the soil in which the roots are to grow, 

 than if placed along in the trenches themselves, in direct contact with the 

 plants. 



PRUNING EVERGREENS. 



Sir, — When is the proper time for pruning evergreens ? 



John A. Tidet, Norwich. 



Evergreens may be clipped at almost any season of the year, but they will be 

 the least checked in vigor by pruning them in the month of June, just as the 

 new growth is pushing out. 



RUSSIAN MULBERRY. 



Sir, — What kind of fruit can be grafted on the Russian Mulberrry ? I ask the ques- 

 tion because it is a useless tree for fruit bearing. 



Wm. Down, Stratford, Ont. 

 Can any of our readers answer this question ? 



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FILBERT GROWING IN ONTARIO. 



Sir, — I can add little to what I have said already, regarding my Kentish Cob nut 

 trees. My trees are about twelve feet apart in the row and they interlap, making quite a 

 wind-break ; like the wild Hazel, they are inclined to spread. I judge fifteen feet would 

 be about the proper distance. I mentioned the twelve trees average from two to three 

 gallons a year, and I have had as high as eight or nine. All trees from nuts I ever planted 

 have ffuited more or less, and they begin bearing in four or five years. This Kent nut, 

 you see, has a thicker shell than the fibert, and is more like the common hazel. The 

 Filbert, from what I hear from the States, are short-lived and very shy bearers ; and one 

 account I read of them accounted for their poor bearing, from the blossoms not being pro- 

 perly fertilized. A tree by itstct I cut down because of its poor bearing. 



Never having had enough for market purposes, I cannot 

 judge of the price. In the old country, fresh nuts with their 

 htdl on, sold from ten to fifteen cents per pound. I now have 

 between 200 and 300 one and two-year-old trees, intending to 

 plant an acre ; but as land is scarce with me and more valuable 

 for grape purposes, I will dispose of part, say, 150, if any of 

 your neighbors or friends desire them for experiment. I would 

 take $20 per hundred. I have a row of twenty trees, planted 

 four years ago, which I expect to begin bearing next year. I kentish cob nut. 



noticed a nut or two on one this fall. The nuts are all shapes 



and sizes, but with attention and selection, one may expect to improve them in quality, etc. 

 Ihave never grafted or budded any. They will sprout out from the bottom, and I expect a 

 single trunk would be hard to manage. 



E. Wardroper, Pelee Island, 



