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apples intended to be preserved. Put in a layer of straw, at 
the bottom, and also round the sides, which may be kept up by 
temporary means, or it may be placed in as the apples are 
added. Then fill the pit carefully with fruit, and continue the 
layer of straw entirely over the bed. On this spread the earth 
that was taken out, raising it highest in the middle, and extend- 
ing it at least eighteen inches beyond the sides of the pit. 
19 Pruning Currants. Martin Doyle, in his useful little work, 
“ Practical Gardening,” says that the most productive trees and 
the largest branches of currants, he ever saw, were ‘produced 
by cutting the shoots of every year to within three eyes of the 
former year’s wood; and by cutting short spurs of but an inch 
or two in length, for fruiting also, whenever opportunity per- 
mitted, upon the chief limbs, which should always be limited to 
about half a dozen, and kept clear of shoots, except those spurs.’ 
20 Oenothera c.®spitosa and anisoloba, to Propagate. In 
October, make cuttings of the roots, an inch and a half, or two 
inches long. Plant these, either singly, in small pots, or several 
of them, an inch or two apart, in a large pot. Use a light and 
rather dry soil; place them in a cold frame, where they should 
remain, without watering, till March. Afterwards, the roots 
should be gradually stimulated by occasional waterings, and, if 
it be convenient, the warmth of a gentle hot bed. The root 
cuttings will soon afford healthy plants, for transferring to beds 
or the mixed flower border. 
21 Holly Hedges. Holly should be transplanted whilst the 
plants are young; that is, when a foot or eighteen inches high, 
or they are less likely to succeed. It has been obseiTed in the 
Horticultural Register, that the whole secret of success in the 
removal of Holly, consists in performing it at Midsummer, in 
lieu of Winter, as is the general practice. The soil should, 
occasionally, be forked up, about the plants; and the young 
lower shoots hooked down, beneath the soil as layers. They 
will readily strike root, and the bottom of a fence may thus be 
rendered exceedingly compact. 
22 To Destroy Worms. Put a bushel of quick lime into a tub, 
with twenty gallons of water, let it remain two or three days, 
occasionally stirring it. With a watering pan apply the clear 
lime water, copiously, over garden walks or turlj three or four 
successive evenings. 
