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the curculio from coming forth, while doing no damage 

 to the trees, but rather benefitting them? 



Long rovjs and horse cultivation are all right in the 

 garden for most things, if the man will make the 

 drills as for the corn, and do the cultivating when 

 needed ; but if the woman is to tend the garden with a 

 hoe and rake, she may prefer to plant closer, and hoe 

 vegetables instead of going over so much ground to de- 

 stroy weeds. But don't take our garden to the corn- 

 field half a mile away. Keep it near the house — we 

 shall have far enough then to walk to get our dinner 

 vegetables together. Many times it might be more con- 

 venient, if not so pretty, if each variety could be planted 

 in squares, just as different varieties of fruits would be 

 most conveniently planted in the same way in market 

 orchards. 



Women in Horticulture. — Certainly, they could en- 

 gage in that business just as appropriately as in any 

 other. Indeed it would be much better to do so than 

 to engage in making shirts at 75 cents a dozen while 

 finding their own thread ; but there is one embarrass- 

 ment that many would find it very hard to overcome — 

 the lack of capital to get a start. 



Do you find Oxa/is Deppei as pretty as the picture ' I 

 did not ; there was a narrow, dark bar, not very con- 

 spicuous, instead of a large colored spot on the leaflets. 



Do you raise a few shallots for early onions ? 



Has any one cultivated the wild dicentra, the " Squir- 

 rel Corn," of beach and maple wood ? If not, why not ? 

 Is it not one of our loveliest northern wild flowers ? — 

 Mrs. M. R. A. C, Ann Arbor, Mirh. 



Cato, who died 150 B. C. was a practical farmer 

 The truck farmers, of Long Island, are, in a measure, 

 following his teachings: He said, "Study to have a 

 great dung-heap. Carefully preserve your dang. When 

 you carry it out, make clean work of it ; break it up 

 fine ; carry it out during the autumn." 



A Cheap Border of Flowers can be had by plant- 

 ing ten cents' worth of seeds of the good, old-fashioned 

 Four O'clock. Sow them a foot apart in a drill, and 

 the ten cents' worth will be sufficient for a row 400 feet 

 long. They will make plants two feet high, and the 

 row will be as compact as a hedge, and in early morn- 

 ing and evening as handsome a display as it is possible 

 to m^^ke. In cloudy mornings the flowers will keep 

 open until noon, rivaling in beauty a collection of the 

 choicest azaleas. No two plants will be alike, and on 

 the same plant there will be a great diversity of color. 



The New Tea-Polyantha Rose, "Clothilde Sou- 

 pert." — I have seen but few- roses that commend them- 

 selves so highly, or which I would so gladly introduce to 

 all who dwell with the rose, as the subject of this notice 

 Having frequently read its praises in horticultural papers 

 and florists' catalogues, I have been more than an.xi- 

 ous to see it, because the descriptions of our business 

 florists do not always materialize — the plant, from some 

 reason or other does not produce as fine flowers in the 

 garden as the artist does in the catalogue. But "Clo- 



thilde Soupert " is on the table before me, watching 

 what I have to say. She, like all other beautiful creat- 

 ures, is fond of praise ; but, unlike many others, she 

 wants only what truly belongs to her — a just apprecia- 

 tion of her beauty and generosity . This she shall have 

 at my hands, for a more pleasing rose I have not seen. 

 This would not be true if I were to speak of its indi- 

 vidual flowers, because I would much prefer a Jacque- 

 minot, Pearl of the Garden, or American Beauty, but 

 I should prefer a plant of this to any of the above, or to 

 all three of them, for that matter, because on my plant 

 — which IS but ten inches high — there are now three 

 fully opened roses, just two inches in diameter, a clear 

 rose pink in the centre, the outer petals a pearly white, 

 with a pleasant fragrance. The plant is of excellent 

 habit, a free-grower, and, is moreover, like the polyantha 

 class, a constant bloomer, admirably adapted to pot 

 culture or for the open border. — C. L. Allen. 



"A Mighty Handy Thing." — This is the opinion of 

 the few who have used the "wire peg" shown in the 

 illustration. It is an English invention, whether patented 

 or not we cannot say, and is sold there for 

 about 25 cents a hundred. It is made of 

 heavy galvanized wire, but could be made of 

 telegraph wire or evea a lighter kind for 

 smaller plants. It is far superior to the 

 I wooden peg used for layering, and not much 

 I if any more, costly. The lighter grades of 

 ^ galvanized iron would answer admirably for 

 pegging down young roses for winter. In 

 heavier work, like layering grape vines, a 

 heavier grade of vvire would be necessary. 



Questions from the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Division of Pom- 

 ology, Washington, D. C, March 14th, jSgo. 

 — I wish, through the columns of the Garden, 

 to ask the following questions of your horti- 

 cultural readers : Who knows of new varie- 

 ties of fruits having been the result of " bud variation ?" 

 Have such new varieties been the result of accident, or 

 was it known that such buds had varied upon the parent 

 tree, and the buds been taken with the hope of repro- 

 ducing the variation ? How many, and what varieties 

 of what fruits have been so produced, and what were the 

 conditions and circumstances attending their produc- 

 tion ? Have certain whole limbs upon fruit trees (and 

 not artificially inserted), been known to produce fruit 

 entirely different from that borne by the rest of the tree ? 

 I shalll be much pleased if the above brings out a large 

 number of replies; provided that they contain facts, and 

 not guesses. — C. L. Hopkins, Washington, D. C. 



A Group of Rhododendrons. — We have none too 

 many broad-leaved evergreen shrubs that will flourish 

 well in our hot and dry summers, and this is the finest 

 of them all. If it did not cost so much for the plants 

 they would be in every garden in the cooler parts of the 

 country ; they are so showy in flower and the foliage is 

 so rich through all the year. In England, where this 



