July iS, iSSS.] 



Garden and Forest. 



247 



a good deal and take a long-time to recover themselves. This 

 can be avoided by lifting and potting the young plants at once. 

 Use four or five inch pots, and plunge them to their brims and 

 close together in an open plot out-of-doors. And if there is a 

 probability of the plants being late, pot them off in this way, 

 and it will help them greatly. When potted plants are set out 

 they grow straight ahead without ever wilting. The earliest 

 Cauliflower and Cabbage plants should be pot-raised; they 

 should be almost half grown in pots before the land out-of- 

 doors is fit to plant. Sow some Dwarf Green Curled Kale nov\' 

 for plants to set out in August. Any empty spaces can be filled 

 with Kale. There is no need of its attaining mature size lie- 

 fore winter; if even half grown it is very good. Before frostv 

 weather sets in it may lie lifted and heeled in close in a cold- 

 frame for use during winter. 



Sow a row or two of large-leaved (not large-rooted) Chic- 

 ory for use for salads in winter. If sown much earlier it goes 

 to seed. 



The main crop of Carrots and Beets should not be sown be- 

 fore July. Carrots may be sown any time in July and a few 

 the 1st of August. The 

 short stump-rooted Carrots 

 are better than the long- 

 ones. Carrots sown now 

 keep tender all winter long, 

 but Carrots raised from 

 April and May sowings be- 

 come so hard and flavorless 

 liefore winter that they are 

 only fit to feed to stock. 



When to sow Beets must 

 lie regulated by the place 

 and season. Here the pro- 

 per time is late July and 

 early August. Beets are 

 only wanted just large 

 enough, say two to three 

 inches in diameter, for use, 

 solid and tender. Large or 

 early sown Beets are apt to 

 l;ie foggy inside and unfit 

 for table use. And as it is 

 with Beets so is it with Tur- 

 nips. Winter Turnips 

 should never be sown here 

 before the middle of Au- 

 gust, because they are 

 hardier and have a longer 

 season of growth, to the 

 second or third week in 

 November, Purple-top 

 Round Globe and Stra]5- 

 leaf Turnips are very good. 

 Sow some Parsley now in 

 a cokl-frame for use in win- 

 ter. That sown now will 

 yield nice leaves from 

 November till May or 

 June, whereas the plants 

 raised from spring sowings 

 will nun to flower after Feb- 

 ruary. 



Keep up a regular supply of Lettuces by frequent sowings 

 and plantings. There is no Lettuce that will not run to seed 

 very quickly at this time of year. Grow in rich soil and 

 water abundantly in dry weather. But as this is a 

 " quick " crop, use as a catch-crop between rows of other 

 vegetal)les rather than as a main crop of themselves, hr the 

 same way make a small sowing of Spinach and Radishes 

 every week. It is useless at this time of year to make large 

 sowings or plantings of such short-lived crops as are Spinach, 

 Lettuces or Radishes. 



Keep up a succession of Sweet Corn. Moore's Concord 

 gives excellent satisfaction, and a little may yet be planted 

 every week. 



Cutback Melon vines that wander beyond their proper place, 

 and if they grow so thickly in the hills as to threaten to smother 

 one another, do not hesitate to thin them out severely. Sow 

 some Cucumbers in a cold-frame. Of course, if sown out-of- 

 doors now, they will have time enough yet to mature their 

 fruit before cold weather sets in, but aliout the end of August 

 aphides usually attack and destroy the vines. In the open 

 ground it is ditticult to overcome this pest, but in frames thev 

 can lie destroyed by a free use of fresh tobacco stems or 

 powder, keeping the frames shut up at the same time. 



Cucumbers for jiickles aic liest grown in the niicn ground. 

 For pickles, growers hercaliout are v(-rv partial to Nichol's 

 Mediimi Green. 



IVi/i. P'alconcr. 



Glen Cove, N. V, 



II< 



to Grow Ouinccs. 



]Y,TR. CHAS. L. JONES, of Newark, N. J., has had unvarying 

 ■'■•-'• success with this fruit and his trees have \\q\\- been in 

 bearing thirteen years. For several years he has gathered 

 from each tree from 400 to 450 Quinces, and last year tlie aver- 

 age was 475 to a tree. Mr. Jones asserts that any one can 

 grow Quinces in a city back yard- and he gives a full explana- 

 tion of his method of cultiu'e in a recent number of the Rural. 

 New Yorker. The first injunction is not to stir the ground 

 deeply near the tree. The Quince throws out many fine feed- 

 ing roots near the surface, and these should be encouraged, 

 fed anil protected. Hence tlie ground aliout the tree, to a dis- 

 tance as far as its branches extend, is undisturbed, except to 

 keep down the weeds, which are cut close to the surface with 



a push-hoe. Late in au- 

 tunm a dressing of barn- 

 yard manure is given, and 

 in early summer a mulch 

 of salt hay or other coarse 

 material is added. This 

 keeps the fine roots moist 

 and cool and furnishes 

 them with food. 



The next essential is 

 proper pruning. This does 

 not mean an occasional 

 thinning out of the branch- 

 es as they become crowded. 

 Indeed, as the tree is often 

 deficient in foliage, no thin- 

 ning out is practiced, liut 

 every spring the new 

 growth all over the tree is 

 pruned back or " headed 

 in," so as to leave but four 

 or five buds. This means 

 that from two to four feet 

 of wood is cut from every 

 thrifty shoot. As a result 

 of this treatment, the entire 

 outer surface of the tree is 

 literally covered with fruit 

 of good size and quality. 



Fig. 41. — Am^-Ianclii 



icaipa. — See page 245. 



It is a slow and tedious 

 operation to pick off the 

 young seed pods from 

 Rhododendrons and Aza- 

 leas, but it pays to do it. 

 If the jiods are allowed to 

 mature the new shoots 

 which spring from lateral 

 buds just below the terminal 

 inflorescence often make 

 a feeble and unsatisfactory 

 growth, and fail to set flower 

 buds, the strength of the plant going to the perfection of the 

 seeds. The operation, if performed as soon as the plants are 

 out of flower and before the stem becomes hard, is (juickly 

 done by pinching out the whole flower cluster just above the 

 new shoots, although some care is necessary not to remove 

 these also. Of course, if the new growths are broken or mu- 

 tilated, there will lie no bloom on them the following year. 

 D. 



Orchid Notes. 



Orchids in Bloom at North Easton, Massachusetts. 



THE collection of F. L. Ames, Esq., is worthy of note at this 

 season, containing as it iloes handsome specimens, many 

 of them unique. On entering the Orchid houses one iwsses 

 through a handsome reception room, recently erected for the ac- 

 commodation of visitors, into a large span-roofed siructiu-e 

 100 feet long containing chiefly Cypripediums and Cattleyas. 

 A few days ago the fornier were remark.-ilily gay. Worthy of 

 note amongthem was a handsome plant of the rare C. Schrodcrce. 

 with six stout spikes bearing ten large, well formed flowers, 

 a sight not easily forgt)tte)i. Among other well grown 

 and healthy plants were examples of C. caudatum Wallisli, 



