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habit some varieties have of throwing blind wood. The 

 better way is to let the bud partially mature or remain 

 until its supporting stem has attained firmness and 

 strength, then cut back one-third or one-half its length, 

 as deemed advisable, or to a good strong eye, which in 

 turn will quickly break and produce another strong 

 bud-producing shoot. The strongest of the blind wood 

 should be allowed to remain to feed the plant, until 

 such time as its usefulness in this respect is passed, 

 but the weak, spindling wood of this class should be 

 removed after the plants have attained some size. 

 This practice of disbudding should cease with the ad- 

 vent of cool weather, or whenever the market demands 

 the product and the plants are strong enough to ma- 

 ture them without injury, but in most varieties the 

 laterals should be removed in order to throw all the 

 strength of th.e plant to the maturing bud. 



THE CARE OF BOILERS. 



Too much stress cannot be laid upon a careful an- 

 nual inspection of so important a factor to success as is 

 our heating apparatus. In relation to its care, when 

 not in use, I do not think a better method can be recom- 

 mended than that given a few years since in answer 

 to this same question : The proper care of our boilers 

 is a very important matter, as they bear in a measure 

 much the same relation to our business as do the foun- 

 dations of a building to the superstructure. Let these 



