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ITH farmers generally the autumn is the most convenient 

 time for planting trees, because of the more abundant 

 leisure which that season affords ; but with fruit growers 

 it is the very busiest season of the whole year. We find 

 that the gathering and shipping of winter apples, and the 

 gathering and marketing of the later varieties of grapes, 

 keeps us l)usy until the middle of November, when very often Jack Frost closes 

 up all such operatipns as planting trees. All our experience in fall planting of 

 peaches, apricots, and cherries has been unfavorable. They certainly do not 

 succeed as well as when planted in the spring ; but hardy fruits, such as the 

 apple and pear, will succeed, if planted early in soil that is well drained and 

 not subject to heaving with the frost. A very important precaution in fall 

 planting, indeed in planting at any time, is to fill in fine soil among the rootlets 

 and to tramp it down firmly. Blackberries, raspberries, currants and goose- 

 berries also do well by fall planting. The sooner this is done after the fall of 

 the leaf the better. 



CuTTiNc.s. — This month will be a very good time for making cuttings of 

 currant and grape wood. No better season for the pruning of plants and vines 

 can be chosen, because if left till spring it is very often neglected altogether. 

 The wood that is desired for cuttings should be of this season's growth, well- 

 matured, and cut into lengths of from six to eight inches long. Some advise 

 planting these cuttings in nursery rows, two or three inches apart, where they 

 are to grow a year or two, until they are fit to be transplanted. But in our 

 climate we would advise rather tying them in bundles of convenient size and 

 barying them in some dry sandy spot until the early spring, when they will be 

 found perfectly fresh and the cuts will be well callused over. Treated in this 

 way scarcely any of them will fail to grow if planted in suitable soil, partially 

 shaded. It matters little, however, whether the cuttings be made in fall or 

 spring ; they will do equally well, in our opinion, if made while the plants are 

 still dormant in spring, say in the month of March, and buried either in the 

 ground, or in fresh saw dust, until planting time. 



Apples for Export. — The quality of the apples which are this year being 

 harvested at Maplehurst, and, according to reports, from all parts of Ontario, is 

 such as to encourage us considerably in the matter of export. Greenings are 

 exceptionally large and fine, with bright colored cheeks and unusually firm flesh, 

 promising to carry well any distance, and keep longer than usual. The Cran- 

 berry Pippin is this year one of the most productive varieties, fn the orchard 



