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CURRENT GARDEN LORE. 



filling the boxes, and sowing either broadcast or in rows, 

 fine soil was sifted over the seeds, burying them about 

 one-fourth of an inch, and firmed with a small block. 

 Most of the seeds had vegetated by December 13 and 

 14. Water was applied sparingly until the young plants 

 were pricked out into the same kind of boxes January 13, 

 setting them in rows inches apart. At this trans- 

 planting, about an inch of old manure was placed in 

 the bottom of each box, and then it was filled with 

 good leaf-mold. The plants grew rapidly, and by Feb- 

 ruary 5 we had good-sized specimens for the bench. 

 The greenhouse bench is three feet in width, and by 

 erecting side-boards we made it nine inches deep. A 

 layer of rotten manure, measuring about three inches in 

 depth, was placed in the bottom, and covered with good 

 soil mixed with one-third of its bulk of rotten manure. 



to the ground in spring, before growth commences. 

 This results in the growth of vigorous young shoots, and 

 it is these young canes which bear fruit the same sum- 

 mer, ripening it toward the close of July, through Au- 

 gust, and even at times in September. As the new canes 

 do not all start to grow at the same time, they reach the 

 bearing stage at different periods, and this is why the 

 ripening of the fruit is scattered over a considerable 

 period of time. It is not impossible to get other rasp- 

 berries to bear in the same way, but they do not perform 

 their work so thoroughly as Catawissa. — Joseph Meehan, 

 in Practical Farmer. 



Edelweiss. — The edelweiss has been hunted from one 

 point of refuge to another among the Alps, till it has been 

 almost exterminated in its native home. One of the 

 most beautiful and quaint of mountain flowers is con- 



A Bench of Lettuce. 



The plants were set seven inches apart. Our photo- 

 graph was taken April i, and April 9 we cut the crop for 

 market. Houses for forcing purposes should be 20 or 22 

 feet wide, constructed with the glass very close to the 

 benches, so that the plants will receive a large amount of 

 sunlight, which is essential for healthy and rapid growth 

 of plants. — Bulletin Te7inessee Agricultural Experi- 

 ?nent Station. 



A Fall-Bearing Raspberry. — Catawissa isa very good 

 fall-bearing raspberry. It has a natural tendency to- 

 ward fruiting at that season. Its canes are cut off close 



demned to extinction because tourists in Switzerland 

 consider themselves bound by fashion to wear a couple 

 of dried specimens in their hats or send them home 

 gummed to a card. In one or two of the cantons the 

 government has interfered to save the persecuted plant, 

 and set a fine on plucking its beautiful, fluffy, white 

 flowers. The edelweiss does not submit readily to culti- 

 vation in gardens. It will, indeed, grow when planted 

 in a rockery, but degenerates early, the flowers assuming 

 a green hue in place of snowy white, and the petals los- 

 ing their curious wool. — Horticultural Times. 



