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BUDS, BLOSSOMS, FRUITS. 



tumn than those budded on briar stock or on their own 

 roots, as manetti stock ripens so early that a late growth 

 vigorous enough to incite fall bloom is seldom obtained. 



Canning Grapes. — Crush, scald and rub the ripe fruit 

 through a sieve. This saves all the substance of the 

 fruit that is good, and it will keep as well as jelly. Use 

 sugar, and finish cooking the same as for jelly. Jelly 

 made of half-ripened grapes is an excellent addition to 

 mince-pies, but is too sour for other uses. — Adele. 



Suit Planting to the Climate, — In my judgment 

 the cardinal principle in planting our gardens and lawns 

 is to secure the best selections of indigenous plants, 

 shrubs and trees, or such as may readily adapt them- 

 selves to our latitude and to their surroundings, else our 

 cultivation may cost too much, and prove no culture at 

 all in the end. For a cold climate select hardy plants. — 

 Edwin Willits. 



To Kill Aphides on 'Mums. — Bring some tobacco- 

 stems irom a factory, crowd them tightly into some 

 deep vessel, and fill it with water. Let the stems soak 

 for 10 or 12 hours, and then spray the liquid upon 

 your chrysanthemums. It will kill the flies every time, 

 and the plants will not be troubled with them again. 

 This tobacco-tea is also a remedy for the green aphis 

 that infests roses. — H. R. Friedgen, Ind. 



New Sweet-Potatoes. — Gen. Grant is well worth try- 

 ing in the north. It is of large size and fine quality, 

 cooks dry, and is extra early. The vines grow stocky, 

 but do not run over the ground, like other varieties. 

 They grow well where Nansemonds and Jerseys are a 

 failure. The Early Golden Yam also does well in the 

 north. I have raised some of first-class quality that 

 Weighed three pounds apiece. — Mayflower, Ohio. 



Selling Produce at Home. — In most cases it is a 

 mistake to sell produce from the garden cheaper than from 

 the market. We make regular trips to market, and have 

 regular hours to prepare the load, so that it is done sys- 

 tematically and at little expense. Usually, when pur- 

 chasers come to the garden the help is employed at 

 other work, which must be left waiting until a few cents' 

 worth of this or that has been gathered, at greater cost 

 than that of the vegetables sold. — E. Brayton. - 



Fall-Sown Phlox Drummondii. — Some new ground, 

 a sandy loam never before planted, was at my disposal ; 

 and late in the fall, after it had been fertilized, spaded 

 and raked smooth, I sowed it with Phlox Drummondii 

 in crosswise rows. The plants appeared as soon as the 

 ground began to grow warm in spring, and soon com- 

 pletely hid the brush laid between the rows as a sup- 

 port. This bed was a mass of bright color long before 

 plants from spring-sown seed were large enough to 

 bloom. — Adele. 



Harlequin Bugs. — Prof. Comstock is quoted in 71ie 

 Rural Nezv-Yo7-kc}- s.?, saying that the harlequin bug, 

 so troublesome on cabbage here, has not been success- 

 fully attacked by any insecticide. In my experience 

 here, I have found that kerosene emulsion will destroy 

 some of the bugs and drive the remainder away, and if 



persistently used will prove effective in protecting the 

 plants. In a late period of growth I would not use it, 

 but depend upon hand-picking, for the insects are less 

 numerous later in the season, and there might be disa- 

 greeable remains of the emulsion left upon the harvested 

 crop.— W. F. Massey, N. C. 



WooDBANKS, as all regular readers of American Gar- 

 dening know, is the home of the editor, and is located at 

 La Salle, on the Niagara, in New York state. On its 15 

 acres grows one of the most extensive collections of 

 hardy trees, shrubs and plants to be found in America. 

 During two weeks recently spent among the Adirondacks, 

 the editor did not discover more than 20 growths, not 

 including mosses, lichens and fungi, that were not repre- 

 sented on his own grounds. Twelve of the most attract- 

 ive of the 20 sorts were conveyed to Woodbanks and 

 planted there. 



II. THRIFTY SAPLINGS. 



Gardening, the just-started paper, owned by J. C. 

 Vaughan, W. Atlee Burpee and other seedsmen, is a 

 very pretty sheet, and does full justice to the well-known 

 practical ability of its editor, Wm. Falconer. It is under 

 the same business management that has made the trade 

 paper, Tlie American Florist, a success. It is a great 

 pity, however, that such a sheet could not be run without 

 any trade connections. However, all these papers, run 

 directly or indirectly in the interests of seedsmen and 

 nurserymen — Mayflozver, Vick^ s Monthly , Gardening, 

 Floral Guide, Success With Flowers, etc. — help to 

 spread a love of gardening among the people, and so are 

 productive of ultimate good. 



Trellis for Dewberries. — I take stakes two or three 

 feet long, and drive them into the ground about half 

 their length, three feet apart, and across the dewberry 

 rows. Scantlings (2xij^ inches is large enough) 10 or 12 



Trellis for DtwBERRY-ViNEs. 



feet long are nailed along the tops of the posts, and 

 cross-pieces about two feet apart are nailed upon these. 

 Any light material will do for the trellises. Train the 

 vines over them and put straw underneath to keep the 

 weeds down. — T. Chalmers Furnas, Ind. 



When Doctors Disagree. — One of the peculiar 

 things about horticulture is the way in which authorities 

 in any department will differ in their choice of best 

 plants of a certain class. For instance, at the recent 

 florists' convention two able rosarians were asked to 

 name the " 12 best" monthly or everblooming roses. The 

 gentlemen reside in nearly the same latitude, one of 

 them in New York state, the other in Indiana. But 

 three varieties of roses were named in both lists — Agrip- 



