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rose colors are as fiue as need be. When these 
flowers are used in a bouquet, they are placed 
singly, on artificial stems. The outer, or " ray 
petal?," as florists term them, are removed, an 
operation which leaves the flower in such an 
altered condition that it would not at first sight 
be recognized as a Hollyhock. With plenty of 
lively green, and here and there a Tuberose, or 
bit of Heliotrope to give fragrance, they pro- 
duce a most pleasing etfect, and have a delicacy 
and brilliancy which one would hardly sup- 
pose the Hollyhock capable of showing. 
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Packinsr Grapes for Market. 
o 
Scarcely any fruit depends more for its price 
upon the way it is pact;ed than do grapes. 
They are so easily knocked from the stem, and 
the berries so readily brok- 
en, tliat it is not practicable 
to transport them for a long 
distance in large packages. 
The fiworite package in the 
New York market, is a box 
holding five pounds. Ten 
pound boxes also come, but 
have a less ready sale. The 
boxes have light top, bot- 
tom and sides, and strong 
ends, and are made in the 
grape regions at a very 
fliemi '?*" The grapes are 
pafki;i' :h the top nailed 
on II- I'v, and the bottom 
remt'Teil. Some growers 
put a VjieCe of paper in the 
box before putting in the 
fruit, but this is not essen- 
tial. First, a layer of fine 
bunches is put in, then 
smaller bunches, until the 
box is full. The bottom of 
the box is then nailed on, 
taking care to have the berries packed as closely 
as possible without crushing them. When the 
fruit is to be kept for some time, the boxes 
are filled a little heaping, and allowed to stand 
for several days before closing. During this 
time the fruit shrinks somewhat, and the 
skin becomes tougher, so that the bottom can 
be put on with considerable pressure. All 
grapes should be picked when perfectly dry, 
and those that are to be retained for a later 
market should be kept as cool as possible. 
The Philadelphia Raspberry. 
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The original plant of tliis Raspberry was found 
growing wild near Philadelphia some twenty 
odd years ago, and is probably a marked variety 
of our common red species, Rubus strigosus. 
Though it has been so long in cultivation it has 
not been extensively grown out of Southern New 
Jersey. ■ We give an engraving of a fruit clus- 
ter, from Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist, now in 
preparation. It will be seen that the fruit is only 
of medium size; it is of a dark 'or purplish 
red color, firm, and of fair quality. Those who 
take Brinckle's Orange or even the FastoUf as 
their standard of quality, will^not . rank the 
Philadelphia as first class. Still, upon the light 
soils of New' Jersey It is_iiiuch more valuable 
than' the finer varieties, and possesses qualities 
"Which make it^ the leading market variety and 
one of the most profitable fruits of that section.' 
In a market fruit," productiveness is of the first' 
ImportanceTand this the Philadelphia' has" in a' 
high degree. We'regarded ' the stories told of 
its productiveness as extravagant until we saw 
the plants in bearing. It is stated, upon good 
authority, to yield over 300 bushels to the 
acre. It is perfectly hardy, and requires 
no laying down, and has so sturdy a habit of 
growth as to require no stakes. The plant does 
not sucker very freely — a desirable quality in 
some respects, but one which prevents its multi- 
plying as rapidly as may be desired by those 
who sell plants. Upon the whole we are 
greatly pleased with all we have seen of this 
berry, and shall be glad to hear that it has 
proved itself as valuable elsewhere as it is in 
the vicinity of Philadelphia. We believe in 
having a high standard of quality in all fruits ; 
we also believe in having fruit in plenty, and 
if we cannot get an abundance of the best, let 
us have the best we can get. The Philadelphia 
PHIL-iDELPniA KASrBEKRT. 
is among Raspberries, what the Concord is 
among grapes, not a fruit of the highest known 
excellence, but a sure and abundant bearer. 
Since the above was in type, we notice a re- 
port in the Northwestern Farmer that this 
variety has given good results in Indiana. Mr. 
A. Furnas says : " The Philadelphia has fruited 
twice with me, and thus far, has been ap- 
parently as full of fruit as it could hold. In- 
deed, the canes were weighed down with their 
load of fruit. This raspberry has proved to be 
entirely hardy thus far. The berry is of a pale 
red color, quite firm, with what some pronounce 
a slight touch of the pumpkin flavor, which 
with some amounts to an objection, while with 
most its quality is much admired. This is a 
late variety, just coming in as Doolittle is going 
out, and thus lengthening the season of this 
wholesome and delicious fruit." 
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Monthly Roses— How to Preserve During 
Winter. 
SY PETER HENDERSON, SOUTH BEROEN, K. J. 
The question is asked me many htindred 
times every season, " What kind of Roses shall 
I plant ?" I invariably recommend the "Month- 
ly," rather than the so-called " Perpetual " va- 
rieties, which, with very few exceptions, sus- 
tain their "Perpetual" character by only once 
flowering freely, in June, with occasionally a 
few scattering flowers throughout the summer 
and fall. » While with the monthly varieties, we 
have not only a monthly, but an almost daily sup- 
' ply of flowers, embracing far more variety of 
color, from June till November. There is no 
plant sold which, for the first season at least, is 
so unsatisfactory to the buyer as the Perpetual 
Rose ; the 
purcliascr, in 
good fiiitli be- 
lieves that its 
name indi- 
cates a per- 
petual flow- 
ering charac- 
Fig. 1- ter, and is 
wofully disappointed to find that the fiow- 
ers or flower buds that are on it when pur- 
chased, are nearly the last that are seen on it 
for that season. True, its cntirelj' hardy nature, 
sustaining it unscathed through the winter, com- 
pensates for the first year's disappointment by 
a gorgeous bloom in June, but this is all ; for tlie 
remainder of the season tliere is little ornamen- 
tal about it. Wliile on the other hand, the 
Monthly Rose, the original types of which are 
natives of China, are evergreen and ever- 
blooming, if not arrested by severe frosts, — for 
in the milder latitudes of our Southern States, 
they grow and bloom without cessation the en- 
tire season, unless perhaps for a montli or two 
in extremely dry and hot weather in summer. 
But now comes the question, are these monthly 
roses hardy in our Northern States ? They are 
certainly not so by ordinary treatment, but my 
object in writing this paper is to explain a very 
simple process by which they can be preserved 
in as good condition during winter as the hard- 
est Perpetual or Prairie Rose. The success of 
the plan, however, depends greatly on the con- 
dition of the soil in whicli they are growing. 
If it is naturally dry, having a gravelly or sandy 
subsoil, it is certain to succeed ; but if wet and 
undrained, they cannot be saved by this or any 
otlier process. The operation is to remove tliree 
or four inches of soil from one side of the plant 
close up to the roots, and of length and width 
proportioned to the size of the bush, as repre- 
sented by figure 1. The plant is next bent 
down into the excavation, and held in place by 
a few pegs, 
as shown in 
figure 2. It 
is next cov- 
ered entire- 
ly, root and 
branches, by 
sods, placed 
grassy side upwards, and presents when finished, 
a little hillock in appearance like figure 3. 
There is one very important condition fa suc- 
cess, which is: Wxethneatwhiehitisdone. Few of 
our rose amateurs have any idea of the amount 
of freezing that the most tender Tea Rose even, 
will sustain without injury, and would in conse- 
quence be apt to hurry to put them under their 
winter covering on the appearance of the first 
slight frost in October. This would most cer- 
tainly prove fatal to the Rose by causing it to 
rot during the still warm autumn weather. -.We 
usually have 
frost in this 
part of the 
conn try to in- 
jure most ,^M 
green - house 
plants that 
are exposed 
in October. _ Fig. 3. 
Yet I have never seen it severe 'enough to 
injure Roses of any kind before the middle 
of December, to which time the covering up 
Tig. 3. 
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