Fesrvary 23, 1895. 
THE 
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one having the convenience of 
vious year’s 
growth are better than single eyes to a with, if 
rapes are wanted, say in April, 
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there is but one I care to grow for this —— e—the 
Black Hamburgh. I can remember many 
varieties introduced to the public at various times to 
speisede this good old variety, but it still holds its 
own, Trentham 
eight Black Hamburgh, two White 1 — 
two Fosters White Seedling. Those who hav 
t to their ow 
resources ey are — to do the baie 
they can -A very limited m 
When Pine-houses were more me a necessity than 
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int year the eyes must be put i 
the month of August 
thift into 12 and 13-inch pots, and wes be trained 
-E the eya “glass i in the full = aza a vt 
ase 
buds, Sanam 
& good crop of fruit is likely to be ae the fol- 
“ae ason. When the Vines are growing freely 
ure ig absolutely necessary; syringe 
shut up early in the afternoon, and 
m perature y get up “ between 90° and 100° 
a little after — and should not fall 
ng 70° at night, this — should be main- 
d until gr wth has been m 
and the te 
mperature need not be so high, but let 
them get al all the sunshine possible. 
wn Vines, as a matter of 5 . a resting 
Nive 3 weeks at least; and as soon as t 
ted into this rioa the canes hould be 
thortened, and all r 
started, increasing it 
and 9 2 which it may be main- 
flowers open, when it may be kept 
— set, — it is as well to let it 
8 tempe y be 
—.— 5⁰ = Arian in dull cold Dai ; 
ut up early in the ! 
with eunshine, the ee. may run up 20° 
than the minimum. e Vines are 3 
roots freely they a 1 saa of water, and 
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The Vine is a gross feeder, and good G 
be obtained from badly-fed Vines, way to 
treat the Vines is to i them up near et glass 
roof of the forcing- -hous 
f the Vines are 3 for decorative purposes, 
it is a good plan to grow them with 
pot slipped over the Vine by passing it through the 
hole in the bottom of the flow wer-pot; when the Vine 
is making roots freely, fill this pot with good 
compost, and the roots will push from the base of 
the stem ive it. The Vine may be twisted round 
any kind of neat wire trellis. When it is wanted 
for ewe cut the stem through below the hole 
in the bott 
some way leaf and root-action are not reciprocal, 
Excess of heat, combined eege excessive atmospheric 
moisture, is a fertile cause of the production of these 
adventitious roots. It is well to see that they do not 
grow much by altering the treatment. I cut them off 
close with a sharp knife. J. Douglas 
THE ROSARY, 
* WINGER PROTECTION or BOSES, 
When I last wrote I was anticipating the ren of 
our spring operations; indeed, I sa 
ed t 
ebruary, but it would be a rather — 
matter to accomplish this feat in the present season ; 
for with 4 inches of snow 
drifts in su nis places, it wo 
ig cara And so instead 8 prunin g, one has 
think of protecting -a subjec there 
is byte diversity of opinion. i 
that of m 
thing of beauty; with its mulching of long manure 
gathered round e lant, and with the bare shoots 
of the p hemselves, one has to exercise a good 
a 
deal of hope in | jan forward to a time when it 
will be a blaze of colou 
“But mulching,” some 
you do that? ” 
ould say, “ why do 
eating; 
out abs plan, and have lost comparatively few Roses, 
I think there is one point which the objectors to it 
seem to forget, namely, that curing the winter 
months e no small amount of root-action 
going on, even. though above-ground the plants may 
seem to be in a quiescen ave examined 
plants in the middle of winter, and have found a 
number of small white roots evidently adapted to 
imbibing nutriment; and when the rains wash down 
the e i salts pi at in the manure, they 
are t and to show that they are rhea 
take ihe e te to the 
Sal den of the plante—and therefore ia mulching 
oes not only serve for protection from frost. I do 
not pretend to be a vegetable physiologist, but may 
not the character of the stock haye a good deal to 
say to the hardiness or non-hardiness of the plant ? 
An ingenious theory was started in a contemporary 
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long ago, as to the hardiness or otherwise of 
herbaceous plants, viz., that while some were able 
In one 
respect, at any rate, this seems to be pretty * 
2 ae, gets to work much earlier, an * 80 
s more ex 
the ater was much enfo — 
following winter, 
n those days Fern brake fronds and straw, or 
branches of evergreens, were recommended be 
tied into the head of the standards, and to be 
ne them quite as hard 
in t the spring, and if the cone of the plant, where the 
It can be easily removed 
when the beds are dressed in the spring; it is, of 
course, too late now to think of protecting for the 
th ; 
be 
blew them off in all directions, and if the used, 
I think that something heavy should be laid on them 
to keep them in their place, Wild Rose 
THE CORNELL SCHOOL OF 
HORTICULTURE, 
E have already alluded to one phase of this 
— under the title What Chiswick should be 
(see p. 175), and wi 
instruction, from G — and Fore 
“ Daring its session of 1894, the deten i 55 
ng 
other eee appropriated 8000 dollars to be 
— western counties of New York, 
tion of Cornell eg ſor the 
The fu nd was 79 used in 
and i ss 
th 
benefit of nente e. 
conducting a ago ents an 
fertilising Hby ards, fruit orchard a pa dens, = 
and in publishing the results o ee 
and in disseminating horticultural ten ge A 55 o 
eans of lectures and otherwise. in Decem- 
ber we received a prospectus of a School of Horti- 
culture, to be held in Chautauqua County on the 
last 
Pane e aso hald i aio a 
