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succeeding summer. Though in no way whatever 
resembling or related to the spirrna family, it is 
being circulated as “ Blue spirsea.”. 
When to prune, is a perennial question 
that seems never to have been satisfac¬ 
torily settled. Summer pruning- is advo¬ 
cated by many. Obviously, however, we 
cannot cut away the foliage of any plant 
without, to some extent, impairing its 
vitality. It would appear, then, that 
the next best season is during the dor¬ 
mant period. The R. N.-Y. has long 
been of the opinion that the best time 
to prune is not to prune at all, except it 
may be in the case of grape vines and 
other plants that must be restrained. Let 
us take a young pear or apple tree for 
example. J ust so sood as a bud appears 
which is in the wrong place, rub it off. 
The tree receives no check, and sym¬ 
metry and any desired size may be thor¬ 
oughly controlled. This method of re¬ 
straint may be applied even to peach 
trees, which bear their fruit upon the 
wood of the preceding year. There need 
be little doubt that the longevity of fi-uit 
trees is lessened by cutting off branches. 
Even though the bark ultimately grow 
over the wound, the wood will have been 
exposed to the air long enough to have 
begun the process of decay which will in 
time affect the younger outer portions of 
the live wood. And these parts will be 
the first to succumb to high winds. 
How much aid does the tap root give 
to fruit trees in rendering them assist¬ 
ance to endure severely cold winters ? 
Should the tap root be preserved ? Are 
seedling peaches, or plums, or apples, 
hardier if not transplanted ? Mr. M. 
Crawford, at a late meeting of the Ohio 
State Society (Columbus), remarked that 
the tap root extends down into the soil 
below the action of frost furnishing the 
tree with a never-failing supply of moist¬ 
ure. During the cold season evaporation 
from the twigs and branches still goes 
on. If all the roots were surface roots, 
confined to the soil, one, two or more 
feet in depth, that is often frozen for 
weeks or months together, the tap-root 
alone could supply the tree with moist¬ 
ure. To what extent do fruit trees with¬ 
out tap-roots, suffer during exceptionally 
cold winters, beyond seedlings which 
have never been transplanted ?. 
Speaking of the new Japan dogwood 
(Cornus macrophylla variegata), Mr. 
Falconer, of Gardening, says that he has 
no hesitation whatever in pronouncing 
it by far the whitest, healthiest, and 
most striking and beautiful variegated 
tree or shrub at Dosoris. It is one of the 
trees that every one who visits this place 
makes a note of. And it seems not only 
hardy, but perfectly happy there. The 
positive superiority of this tree’s variega¬ 
tion over that of all others in cultivation, 
consists in its pronounced whiteness, 
and the fact that neither the leaves nor 
variegation gets scorched by the sum¬ 
mer’s warm sunshine. It was introduced 
some years ago by H. H. Berger & Co., 
of California, and we are at a loss to 
know why it does not appear in Eastern 
catalogues. 
J ust what is gained by removing the 
sprouts from potatoes reserved for 
“ seed”—the sprouts that grow in cellars 
too warm to preserve them without 
causing the “eyes” to push?. 
Abstracts. 
-L. B. Pierce in Ohio Fabmek : “Hor¬ 
ticulture to-day offers opportunities for 
intellectual growth and culture offered 
by nothing else, and whether you follow 
it professionally, or as an amateur, it 
will be an unfailing source of mental 
stimulus and enjoyment. * * * I 
furnished a man some ti’ees 28 years 
ago, the man being at that time 57 years 
of ago. Many of the peach trees have 
died and been cut away, and the pears 
are large, bearing trees ; yet the man 
still lives in sufficiently good health to 
gather and enjoy the fruit.” 
- W. A. Burpee : “ The advent of 
Crimson clover marks the beginning of 
a revolutionary era in farming. Never 
in the history of agriculture has the dis¬ 
covery of a new economic plant been 
more opportune.” 
- Farm Journal : “ Better stop work 
on the navy or stop increasing the na¬ 
tional debt. Nobody wants to tight us. 
nobody is going to, whether we increase 
our ocean armament or not. So what is 
the use of wasting our substance in this 
way and setting a bad example to the 
rest of the world ?” 
- New York Times : “ The farming of 
New England is destined to become the 
leader and example for the whole of the 
United States. It has passed its first 
estate as a mere gatherer of the spoils of 
past centuries of fertility of the soil and 
is now fast becoming, as that of old Eng¬ 
land, typical of a new life and modern 
progress in science and practice.” 
“The fact is, as shown by Prof. San¬ 
born, that the yield of every crop in 
New England, as well as the stock of 
farm animals, is on a scale of rapid in¬ 
crease, while in the West the scale is ret¬ 
rograding. The intensive farming of 
the East is outyielding the extensive 
farming of the West, and the beginning 
is only now made in both directions in 
either way. Thus it is that the future 
will doubtless show a very great revival 
of agriculture in the East henceforth, 
with corresponding advantage to the 
whole community.” 
“New England to-day offers the best 
opportunity of tne continent for a poor 
man to procure a farm home. Here to¬ 
day is the most promising opening for 
capital, for little has to be realized to 
make the investment a paying one.” 
- Meehans’ Monthly : “ Kieffer or 
‘ Keiffer’ pear.—In the appendix of 
Dow ning’s fruit book, this famous pear is 
spelled ‘Keiffer,’ while the proper orthog¬ 
raphy should be ‘Ivieffer.’ There is 
no use naming anything in honor of 
another unless the name be correctly 
spelled.” 
Gardening: “Green-flowered Chrys¬ 
anthemums. — Both in England and 
France the variety Viviand-Morel has 
produced sports bearing green flowers, 
and those sports have been propagated 
from, giving green flowered plants. Of 
course its only value is as a curiosity.” 
Some Bright Green Apple Judges. 
J. H. J., Troy, Pa. —I have one tree of 
the Red Bietigheimer. If the tree is 
well sprayed, it has very large, and very 
fair apples, and plenty of them; but 
they do not mellow up, and rot quickly. 
They are good for cooking. I had a plate 
of them at our fair, and I was talking 
with a friend when one of the judges 
was in the act of putting a first premium 
card on the plate for tomatoes. We all 
laughed. A little way off, when you can 
not see the stem or blossom, they look 
like a very fine tomato of a new shade. 
They ripen here about the middle of 
September. I would choose some other 
kind. 
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