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Dwarf apples and pears are now being pruned. The sowing 
of tomatoes and egg and chili seed in the hot frame in pots requires 
our best attention. The following list contains those best 
grown :— 
Tomato.—Mikado, Mayflower, Ponderosa, The Peach, Volun- 
teer, Optimus, Sutton’s Al, Acme, Trophy, President Garfield, 
Keye’s Early Prolific, Green Gage. 
Egg Plant.—Black Pekin, Dwarf Purple, Long White. 
Chili,—Coral Red, Tom Thumb, Spanish Mammoth, Long 
Red, Golden Dwarf, Birdseye. There are also many grown at 
the college not given in the above list. 
We are instructed in “ root-grafting ” this month. One of the 
main objects is to see that the scion and root is properly united. 
Figs. 5 and 6 show the most successful modes of treatment. 
To keep the scion and root in position we bind them with thin 
strips of calico. 
Digging in the orchard between the trees is now being pro- 
ceeded with, and keeps the students well employed. 
Planting potatoes in the lower orchard occupies us for some 
time. The following list gives a few of the best varieties of 
potato :— 
Crimson Beauty St. Patrick 
Red King Sutton’s Early Flourball 
Seedling Kidney Tasmanian Red 
Sutton’s Magnum Bonum Vanguard 
Stowbridge Glory Peach Blow, &c. 
Weeding and hoeing keep one and all busy. Cutting and 
trimming boxthorn hedge and planting vines give plenty to do. 
Mr. A. C. Neate gave a very instructive lecture this month 
entitled “ Victorian Soils and Cultivation.” It was attended by 
the Horticultural Board and students and a good gathering of 
the general public. 
SEPTEMBER. 
This month is one of the most interesting to the students who 
are now instructed how to make “grafting wax.” This is a 
mixture of beeswax, tallow, and resin in equal quantities, and 
half the quantity of lard. 
These ingredients are slowly melted over a fire in a tin dish, 
and well plastered on paper of good substance, which is cut into 
narrow strips, and is used for wrapping around the graft in place 
of the old-fashioned clay ball. 
Sowing peas, carrots, lettuce, onions, and beet keep us all well 
employed. 
