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ORCHARD & GARDEN THERMOMETER 
Handsome in Appearance; Correct and Reliable in Register- 
ing; Strong and Durable in Construction; An 
Ornament and a Necessity. 
In order to offer a special inducement to subscribe for Orchard and Garden during 
the hot dull aud summer days, we have had a num- 
ber of these elegant and accurate thermometers especial- 
ly made for us to offer as a premium for new subscrib- 
ers, thereby affording them the chance of a lifetime to 
obtain one of these useful and important instruments 
very far below its cost. 
Description: The illustration here given is a per- 
fect fac simile of the Thermometer, except in size. 
The instrument we offer is not a cheap, every day affair 
like many that are now offered, but a first class, trust- 
worthy thermometer, manufactured by a well known 
house and guaranteed correct and reliable. It meas- 
ures 21 inches long by inches broad, mounted and 
finished on natural wood, making a handsome and 
useful ornament for hall or piazza. This style of ther- 
mometer retails in the stores at $2.00 each. Here is a 
chance to get one free. 
EVERY HOME NEEDS ONE. 
EVERYBODY WANTS ONE. 
All that is necessary to obtain one of 
these beautiful and useful instruments is 
a little persistent systematic work. With 
a copy of Orchard & Garden in hand 
call upon your fruit growing and garden- 
ing friends and neighbors early in the 
morning, during the noontide hour, or in 
the evening, and by pointing out how use- 
ful— how profitable the journal would be 
to them — saving in many instances by a 
single item many time the cost of a whole 
year — which, do not fail to state, is but fif- 
ty cents, and we are sure very little diffi- 
culty will be experienced in securing the 
four subscribers desired. Many others 
are doing it, why not you? 
FOR FOUR NEW SUBSCRIBERS 
to Orchard and Garden at fifty cents each we will send one of these elegant thermom- 
eters free as a premium, carefully packed in a stout pasteboard box. Sent by express, 
the receiver paying charges, or by mail postpaid upon receipt of 35c, extra for postage. 
J. T. LOVETT CO., Little Silver, N. J. 
it at once, and set the plants out later about 
a foot apart. They can be nicely blanched 
by turning a flower pot over them. 
CORN. 
Succession crops of corn for table use can 
still be planted. At the North plant a med- 
ium early sugar corn. At the South our 
ordinary white field corn or Stovvell’s Ever- 
green, which will succeed here fairly well 
planted late. 
KOHL RABI. 
This may still be sown and either thinned 
out where sown or transplanted. In this 
latitude it makes a fine winter vegetable, 
left where it grew until wanted for use. It 
ought to be grown much more largely in 
the South. 
KALE . 
Seeds of Curled Scotch Kale sown now 
and transplanted in August in the same 
manner as winter cabbage, make a deli- 
cious disli after frost has struck them. They 
are hardy enough to stand out except north 
of Baltimore or perhaps further North. — 
W. F. Massey. 
Seasonable Brieflets. 
The vineyard should be kept well culti- 
vated and clean from weeds. 
Canes for fruiting next season must be 
carefully tied up to the upper wire of the 
trellis. 
Rampant canes that are fruiting should 
be pinched back and tied to the trellis. 
Suckers should be taken off as often as 
they appear, and all imperfect bunches re- 
H moved. 
Fine clusters of fruit should be sacked or 
bagged as soon as the fruit is set, to preserve 
as well as to protect them from rot, mildew 
and the birds. 
All vines should be sprayed for fungus 
diseases as recommended by Prof. Scribner 
in his work on that subject. 
Suckers should be taken from grafts as 
often as they appear, and the grafts tied up 
as they grow or the wind will blow them 
off. 
If grafts do not start at once better wait 
awhile rather than disturb them, because 
they often start quite late and then make a 
good growth. 
Cuttings and young vines must be kept 
clean by frequent cultivation. 
Begin preparations in season for shipping 
the crop. Everything should be in readi- 
ness as to baskets, etc. Ten pound baskets 
are the most desirable size for general ship- 
ping, but for fine extra grapes a smaller 
size is perhaps better.— J. Stayman. 
Bagging Grapes. 
If not already done, those who desire to 
bag grapes should do it now. Bagging will 
protect them from the rot and if put on 
now or earlier will ensure a perfect crop 
under ordinary circumstances. The berries 
ripen perfectly and color handsomely but 
are more tender than those not • bagged. 
Exemption from rot, however, is not the 
only advantage secured by bagging. The 
birds in many localities are very destructive 
to ripening grapes, and if the bags are prop- 
erly secured they will afford protection 
against even these. Many paper dealers 
now keep in stock paper bags especially for 
bagging grapes but in the absence of such 
and where there are but a few vines to be 
treated all the advantages may be gained 
by using pieces of manilla paper, about ten 
inches square, sliited from one side to the 
centre and folded over and around a cluster 
of grapes in the shape of an inverted fun- 
nel, and pinned with a common pin. 
