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CURRENT GARDEN LORE. 



Trellis for Tender Grapes. 



a heart cherry. It is about a week later than Purple 

 Guigne. Early Richmond, English Morello, Mont- 

 morency and Kentish are all pie-cherries. Their tart 

 character and bushy, low growth fit them for a place in 

 gardens which the larger-growing sweet sorts could not 

 occupy. — Joseph Median, in Practical Farmer. 



Trellis for Tender Grapes. — The illustration hardly 

 needs explanation; 

 a a are posts set in 

 the ground with 

 enough space 

 above to receive 

 the bolts at b b. 

 i=^rr:~The props or 

 braces dd are also 

 bolted to the trellis 

 at c c. In case it 



is desired to have the trellis stand upright, two more 

 braces can be attached at c c. — Exchange. 



Care in Marketing Fruit. — Peaches should be thor- 

 oughly matured, but not soft, when marketed. It is the 

 besetting sin of most growers to pick fruit too green 

 rather than too ripe. Before picking a peach look at the 

 blossom end ; if the green tint there has begun to turn 

 white it is time to pluck it. Some varieties of peaches 

 begin to color up long before they are fit to pick, and if 

 shipped while thus immature and hard, will shrivel and 

 be tasteless or bitter instead of ripening on the way. It 

 is a good plan for those who are not experienced in the 

 matter of gathering peaches to pick a few of the earliest 

 sound ones and set them away in some cool place, where 

 they may remain for the length of time they would prob- 

 ably occupy on the road if they had been shipped. By 

 examination, the owner can then inform himself approxi- 

 mately as to the condition the peaches would have been 

 found in by the consumer at the other end of the route, 

 and govern himself accordingly. As a general rule, any 

 variety of fruit will be ten days or two weeks in ripening 

 all the fruits on any given tree or vine, and hence the 

 fruit-bearing plant or tree should be gone over several 

 times in picking, for its crop should not all be gathered 

 at once, as may properly be done from a winter apple 

 tree. But with all the care that may be taken by the 

 grower, some of his employees will leave, at every pick- 

 ing, fruit that ought to have been gathered ; and at the 

 next gathering these will be too ripe, and must be care- 

 fully sorted out. They may be the nicest-looking speci- 

 mens in the whole box, and it may be a good deal against 

 the grain to throw them out ; but if allowed to remain 

 they are likely to become over-ripe and soft, if not actu- 

 ally rotten, and they will make a smeary place in the 

 crate. After having tested, and seen my neighbors test, 

 a great many devices for embellishment in packing fruit, 

 I have come to the conclusion that no amount of senti- 

 mental display, such as putting roses, magnolia-leaves, 

 or Cape jasmines over the fruit, or edging the crate with 

 scaltoped paper, will sell poor fruit. Nor do I believe 

 that it will really help the sale of thoroughly good fruit 

 packed in new, clean boxes. But thorough neatness and 



cleanliness, the packing of a box with straight rows of 

 fruit accurately sized, every one the same size as its 

 neighbor, all laid in the same way and gently pressed 

 down that it may not shake about, and especially a 

 bright, new, clean package — all of these are of first im- 

 portance. After all these points have been observed, 

 then if the grower is disposed to lay on strips of scalloped 

 paper or drop in some roses, this is well enough ; but 

 when tip-top returns come back from the merchant, set 

 it down as certain that it was the crate, the package and 

 the fruit itself that did the business, not the "ginger- 

 bread work." — S. Foivers, in Ohio Farmer. 



Peach Trees in Pots. — Peach trees adapt themselves 

 well to pot-culture, and may be grown in bush or pyra- 

 midal form, as in the illustration. This latter form, I 



think, is the best for peaches in pots, as the trees seem 

 then, if well managed, to be even in growth and well 

 balanced in strength and bearing power. Such trees, 

 placed among others planted out in the borders of an 



