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BUDS, BLOSSOMS, FRUITS. 



One Thing at a Time. — We can not do two things at 

 once — at least not well ; as, for instance, raising weeds 

 and vegetables, lice and eggs, caterpillars and fruit, etc. 



Madame Crozy. — F. R. Pierson, the Tarrytown, 

 N. Y., florist, is quite enthusiastic over the merits of 

 this gladiolus. The spike of bloom is very massive. 



Bark-bound Trees. — Did you ever have to slit the 

 skin of a growing animal, in order to adjust the condi- 

 tions of growth? Why perform this operation on trees ? 



Ten acres of pampas-grass in one plot are found in 

 Anaheim, California. A full crop of this plumy pro- 

 duct is expected to yield 100,000 heads, worth scents 

 apiece. 



The blood-leaved Japan plum {Prtinus Pissardii) 

 looks about as pretty as ever, at this date (Nov. 5). This 

 can be said of hardly any other shrub among hundreds 

 of kinds. 



Sometimes the educational value of public gardens 

 is overlooked. Many persons can trace their first real 

 interest in plant beauty to their visits to some of our 

 attractive town parks. 



Laving down peach trees for winter protection is a 

 regular practice with Peter M. Gideon, of Minnesota, 

 originator of the Wealthy apple, and with the result of 

 raising regular and satisfactory crops. 



Cuba is now open, free of duty, to our potatoes, 

 onions, turnips and other vegetables and fruits, fresh or 

 preserved, besides most other products of the land, ex- 

 cept wheat and corn flour and meal. 



The annual banquet to florists, nurserymen ' and 

 gardeners, provided by the bequest of the lamented 

 Henry Shaw, of St. Louis, founder of the Botanical 

 Gardens of that city, took place November 10. 



Two CROPS of grapes on a Herbemont vine in one 

 season are reported by H. R. Buck, of Tangipahua 

 Parish, La. The second crop was still hanging on the 

 vine at end of October, well matured and of good 

 flavor. 



OoR friend J. Wilkinson Elliott, of Pittsburg, is one 

 of the men who devote themselves to encouraging a 

 better style of horticulture by furnishing plans for lay- 

 ing out grounds. He sets forth his relations to this 

 mitter in a pretty little circular just received. 



From other Latitudes. — There are no disadvantages 

 to be cited against obtaining seeds, trees, etc., from 

 points considerably north of where the planting is done. 

 We are not so certain that the reverse of this rule, in 

 going towards the equator for planting stocks, is equally 

 true. 



An English professor, after six years of experiment, 

 has worked out a number of ' ' doses " of artificial plant- 

 foods for certain specific purposes. This reminds us of 

 the nineteen soil-compounds which the elder Buist rec- 

 ommended some forty years ago. American gardeners 

 never took well to the idea. 



The cannas, from having been chiefly grown as plants 

 of attractive leaves, are, through the new type represented 

 in the dwarf French strains, fast assuming prominence 

 as flowering plants. We hear that florists are beginning 

 to force them for winter bloom, the varieties Star of 'gi 

 and Mme. Crozy being favorites for the purpose. 



We have pets in our garden. One of these is a very 

 dwarf and pretty "snowball ' bush, known in the cata- 

 logues as ViburnKtn opuliis var. nana. It is only one 

 foot high and one foot across ; and as its branches are 

 very close, it is so dense as to remind one of the hairs on 

 fur. It never flowers, but its lobed foliage is very pretty. 



Lemoine Hybrid Gladioluses. — Expert E V. Hal- 

 lock points out that the hardness of the stalk of these 

 prevents the opening of the buds after the stalks are 

 cut and placed in water, as so often happens with the 

 ordinary kind. Novel as are some of the characteristics 

 of this race, there is no danger of its ever supplanting 

 the older types in popular favor. 



A Fine Sunflower. — For an effective clump, either 

 singly or in the midst of a border, we heartily recom- 

 mend Helianthus Orgyalis. The stalks run up to a height 

 of six or eight feet, and are clothed with the long, grace- 

 fully-curving linear-lanceolate leaves of refined appear- 

 ance. It is of the easiest possible culture, and once started 

 with however small a piece of root and eyes, it will sopn 

 develop into a strong clump. It blooms in the autumn 

 among the latest of the species. For the wild or 

 picturesque garden, it is perhaps not excelled by any 

 plant known. Twenty-five cents or less will give you 

 a start with it from any of our leading plant nurseries. 



II. THRIFTY SAPLINGS. 



The Brazilian Passion-Flower {Passijlora edulis) 

 bears its luscious fruit freely in gardens of North Wales. 

 The vine is exceedingly pretty when in bloom. The 

 fruits, which begin to ripen at the end of June, resemble 

 large egg-plums, are deep maroon in color, and have a 

 tough, thick skin. The yellowish pulp, although by no 

 means of attractive appearance, has a brisk, agreeably 

 acid flavor, reminding both of melon and pear. It is 

 largely used as a dessert fruit. 



Apples in Niagara County. — Our neighbor fruit- 

 growers in Niagara county are highly elated over their 

 apple crop ttiis fall. While a few varieties, notably the 

 Baldwin, have largely failed, other standard winter sorts 

 have yielded more heavily than anticipated at midsum- 

 mer, the fruit often being of extra size. Some farmers 

 who two months before harvest were expecting 200 bar- 

 rels, later found their crop to reach double that quantity. 

 Prices in October ranged from $1.50 to $2 per barrel. 

 With 40 trees to the acre, multiply by five, as repre- 

 senting the average yield in barrels per tree, and we 

 have 200 barrels per acre. These, sold at $1.75 on an 

 average, amount to I350 per acre. Undoubtedly many 

 of our fruit-growers obtain such results, and are well 

 satisfied at present with fruit-growing. What other 

 crop requiring no more attention gives anything like 

 equal results ? 



