know, but the beauty of the blooms has well 
repaid me. And now to fill the ground for 
continuous summer bloom, and yet be en¬ 
abled to take up the bulbs at the proper 
time. 1 have heretofore planted verbenas, 
geraniums, Ac.; and now again have done 
so with one bed; but in the other I have 
sown, in hills and drills, a collection of 
choicest sweet peas and tropoleonis. I think 
I shall get a show of flowers, in due time, 
whose beauty will gladden the eye, and 
the roots of which will assist in keeping 
light and loose the soil near the bulbs and 
yet not exhaust it to their injury. 
I kept my tea and other tender roses last 
winter as usual, viz: heeled in the soil in a 
frame and covered with boards and straw. 
They were planted out in the border early in 
April, all cut down to two or three buds, 
and now they have shoots of one to four 
inches, all showing fine for bloom. It is a 
simple, easy way of earing for them, and 
with me has never failed of success, f. a. 
^loricnltnrr 
IN THE VINEYARD 
FLORAL NOTES 
Rubbing and Tying. 
Again through my vines, for many buds 
were necessarily missed at, the first rubbing, 
others then dormant had started, and al¬ 
though I had not as much to do as at, first, 
yet on almost every vine there was some¬ 
thing. The buds quite near to, or below, the 
ground, were all showing now, in fact some 
bad grown two to four inches, especially on 
Clinton and that class of grapes, but 1 have 
rubbed them out. 
I found some new shoots that would bear 
a tie, and at once resorted to my old mate¬ 
rial, viz., the bog grass, or cane, to be found 
in almost every piece of low, wet ground. 
It. is the least expensive, most convenient, 
BY F. R. ELLIOTT. 
Alb in among my orchard and garden 
have X been, and I could break into ecstatic' 
expressions, if that were my style; but I 
shall simply say no one knows of the beau¬ 
ty and fragrance of the Mahaleb Cherry 
when in flower until they have once seen 
and breathed it; few know how rich a real 
golden beauty is a plant of the Forxt/thia 
when it gets about foul’ feet high, 
bushing from the ground up, and all in 
bison). Downing gave it the good and ap¬ 
propriate name of Golden T3e)l Shrub, by 
which it should ever be known ; for no plants 
that we have possess the same deep yellow in 
Iocs t his shrub when in full flower. 
Japan Globe Flower is 
a mass as < 
The Corchorus or 
yellow, aad each flower a little yellow rose 
as it were, ami here it is before me in bloom, 
but without the blaze of beauty of the For- 
sytliia. It however blooms continuously all 
summer, and should be in every garden. 
Then again the Golden Bell Shrub, when it 
is growing entwined as it were with the scar¬ 
let flowery Japan Quince; and still further, 
in one little group I have is a Hpirca pruni- 
folun, fiorc <phno, set as a foreground to the 
Quince and Forsythia, but so near as to 
mass with them. Tin: green leaves of the 
Quince just make a background, and the 
whole “everybody says,” is beautiful—one 
young person said “sweet.” (When she 
gets to be n woman 1 hope she will drop the 
word unless she applies it to sugar or six- 
month babies; and then it will be all right, 
in its application.) 
In my flower garden I have been setting 
out my Geraniums, Lantanas, Ac., Ac., and, 
so far as 1 could, 1 have bent down and 
pegged all the shoots, even those that were 
yet green. I did so last year and had a 
mass of foliage and flowers covering the 
whole earth long before my neighbors, who 
planted their plants in the old way. My 
Dahlias I have pinched buck, and, as last 
year, shall continue to do so from lime to 
time, because t he bed in which they are is 
where 1 want to look over It freely. If 1 
were to plant on the back of a border or 
THE CENTURY PLANT AGAIN, 
The Century Pi, ant — Agave, (from the 
Greek, admirable,) Americana, on the premi¬ 
ses of the Messrs. Frost of the city of Roch¬ 
ester, supposed to be about seventy years 
old, is now nearly fifteen feet in height, and 
in appearance not unlike a giant shoot ol 
Asparagus, without leaf or appendage, and 
it is thought will commence breaking during 
the month of July, and remain in blossom 
about two months. This will give foreign 
visitors ample time to visit this ram am, 
to produce which involves the thousand 
Chances that may befall a tender tropical 
plant in its long period of vegetable life, and 
the incessant care and labor of at least two 
individual lifetimes to bring it to perfection, 
which may not appear in t licse Boreal regions 
for the next hundred years. 
There are not probably one thousand per¬ 
sons, among the thirty-three millions of our 
inhabitants, that ever saw this strange plant 
in blossom, and not one of all the human 
beings now inhabiting the Northern States 
may see another during their natural lives. 
It is one of the striped or silver-edged variety; 
.supposed to be an accidental sport ot nature, 
MODE OF TRAINING ROSES, ILLUSTRATED, 
a bed kept in tliis way is much more attrac¬ 
tive than when the plants are permitted to 
make long, straggling stems here and there. 
Another practice, which is also effective, is 
to peg down the shoots as they grow, and so 
literally carpet the whole ground with roses. 
In beds mainly composed of large old plants 
of Rcrpetual.s, Lhe practice ih a good one. 
Especially if only the long canes «f the last 
year are pegged, while the older or two or 
more years’ wood is all cut away; but in 
newly planted beds, or those of mixed sorts, 
w e prefer pinching, to form little bushes, as 
represented. 
The ground for roses cannot be too deep, 
nor too rich, if only the enriching compost 
he well and thoroughly rotted. Roses bud¬ 
ded give larger and better blooms than 
when grown on their own roots, but so few 
appear to recognize the necessity of cutting 
away the suckers which at times come from 
the stock, that it is advisable to plant only 
those grown on their own roots. If, how- 
over, the plants cannot be had otherwise 
than budded, then always plant so as to 
cover the point where the bud was inserted 
at least two inches in the ground, and then, 
. if you wish to make the plant, strike roots 
from itself, as soon ms it is well established, 
take a knife and make a few slight notches 
just at the point where it is budded, and 
from these notches, or wounds, new roots 
will soon strike, and when well grown, the 
old root below can be cut away. 
Forms Of R(ini;h. 
In almost every catalogue descriptive of 
v roses, as well as in the rose 
books, there are certain terms 
V J used to indicate the forms of 
flowers, — terms which, al- 
though apparently plain, yet 
^ are often seemingly misundcr- 
ccrpKu. stood. We copy here sketches 
of the forms of roses, with their appropriate 
terms. 
THINNING OUT GRAPES. 
Is the importance of thinning out the fruit 
of the vine duly considered by the majority 
of cultivators? I think not. From close 
observation, and even sad experience, the 
subject, in my opinion, calls for much more 
attention than is usually given. In young 
vines, this is particularly the cage. 
Such vigorous and hardy constituted varie¬ 
ties as the Concord may stand it, but even 
they will eventually suffer. This fault is not 
only to lie found in the vineyards of the 
novice, but can be seen almost, everywhere, 
in charge of those who know better. This 
then, being admitted, the next question is, 
J low shall it best be remedied ? Shall we 
prune so much shorter, so as not to leave 
more wood than the vine can carry safely 
through, or leave more wood, and then thin 
out the bunches? 
The latter, in my opinion, will be the best, 
for by the first plan we get our fruit too 
much crowded, and throw too much force 
into the young canes for the following year’s 
bearing. My impression is that when a vine 
is nruned to what would seem about right, 
the method. 1 would leave but t wo bunches 
on each bearing shoot, and in some instances 
it is better to leave but one. 
We all know that the forming of the seed 
of any fruit is the. heaviest tax on the plant. 
This being the case, do we not give con¬ 
siderable relief when we diminish this tax 
one-third ? I think we would bo sale iu 
counting on having the same weight ol fruit 
in the two bunches as if three are left. Some 
years ago we grew Concord bunches in this 
way, which the committee, who were to test 
them, would not admit to be that varietj 
until they tasted them. For market ing table 
grapes this is particularly practicable. For 
instance, let one man take Concords that 
will average three-fourths of a pound to the 
bunch, and another have them as usually 
grown, and my word for it, the large bunches 
will command nearly double price, not only 
among the wealthy, but the masses .—drape 
Cultumt. 
Finning Hoses, 
This is a very simple and easy way of 
propagating hardy roses; and just about 
this time, say last of June, is a good time to 
do it. Select a good strong shoot that has 
just done flowering, bend it over and see 
just where it will come when pegged down, 
then excavate a little trench on the line 
about four inches deep; if the soil is clayey, 
scatter on the bottom of this trench an inch 
of sandy loam, then bend down the branch, 
fasten it with the peg a in sketch; then take 
a sharp knife and cut a notch on the upper 
side, b, or make a long slit, as you please; 
but if you choose the latter, insert between 
a hit of stick or a pebble stone; then bend 
up the shoot, as shown in sketch, and fill in 
with sandy soil, pressing it firm with your 
hand, but avoid treading for fear you will 
break the layer. 
The dirt being filled in around it, trim off 
the half ripe wood and leaves, leaving about 
four to five of the strongest and about as 
many inches of wood above ground; finally, 
finish by scattering over and all around for 
a foot or more a mulch of either new mown 
grass, straw, moss, Ac., to keep an even tem¬ 
perature and assist the root formation at the 
point where you made the cut. The soil is 
warm, but if you let the sun on strong, and 
a dry time comes, the young roots that are 
naturally forced out of the plant will dry up. 
EXPANDED 
Ricklkxkd, 
Although the actual form of a flower [ 
varies with its growth —some roses being 
globular when partly blown, and cupped or 
expanded when fully developed—it should 
always he understood that this point should 
be decided when the flower is at its best, or | 
just before its “ blase ” development by sun I 
Fumigating Out-Door Plants.—A correspond¬ 
ent of the Country Gentleman says, to fumigate 
out-door plants with tobacco, " Invert over the 
plants a suitable sized, one-headed cask, tub or 
keg, and put a few live coals in a dish under the 
cask, and place a little tobacco on the lire, and 
the fumigation will soon be completed. Or a 
funnel made from paper may be inverted over 
the plants, and smoke blown from n fumigator 
under it. A cheap and available fumigator may 
be made from a common tin spice-box with a 
suitably lengthed hollow stem fastened to 
each end of the box; the cover may be left 
movable; fill with tobacco and place Jive coals 
behind, and blow through, directing the smoke 
by the Btem where desired. Hoop-skirt springs 
may be used in making paper funnels to better 
keep the paper in form and shape.” 
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Pegging Down Petunias.—A correspondent of 
the Maine Farmer says: “When Petunias are 
wanted to cover a bed in a regular garden, they 
arc not cut in at all; but their long, rambling 
shoots, being pegged down all over the bed, a 
number of side shoots will be sent up, and will 
soon become covered with a mass of flowers. 
’The hybrid, Petunia splviulens, treated In this 
manner, is. when the sun shines on it, almost too 
brilliant to he looked at.” 
Walks In the Vineyard.— I went among 
grapes, whereat this time there is a call for daily 
watching and Judicious work. It’s no use o 
grape writers talking or writing. 1 bullet e tu 
just about all the grape pruning for the seubun 
is laid up in say some two or three week* ol tu ‘ 
blog buds at this season of the year. Stoppmfc 
the laterals on fruit branches I suppose, How¬ 
ever, will have to come iu by-uwd-by: and vea > 
whoever has a vineyard or grape vine, wn 
something to do every time lie carefully °° 
over the vine, for dormant buds will start 
times least expected, clusters of fruit wi ' » 
crease, and the demand for a pair o s ‘ 
pointed scissors to take out occasional oeru^. 
or perhaps a whole bunch will appear to the en 
ful observer at a time not laid down by 
writer.— f. 
iialp cupped. Ci.onm.AH. 
and air, and that its true contour can be 
most distinctively ascertained from a profile 
view, the flower being held level with the 
eye, because then differences can be most 
distinctly perceived. 
Planting Roses. 
Roses may be planted at any time in the 
growing season, because nearly all commer¬ 
cial rose growers on a large scale, like F. K. 
Phoenix of Bloomington, Ill., John Saul 
of Washington, or Ei.t.wanger A Barry of 
Rochester, have them in pots from which 
they can be transferred to the ground at any 
time without risk, In transferring roses 
grown in the open ground, of course early 
spring or fall must be the time; hut in our 
experience some of the best rose beds — 
filled with blooms up to winter’s frosts—that 
we ever saw, were turned into the ground 
from the pots in June. 
IN THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
My hyacinths and tulips! 01 1 ! wliat a 
show of beauty they have been during the 
past three weeks. And why not? The 
bulbs were of their best, had ground made 
rich and deep, were planted with care and 
then protected during winter by a covering 
of coarse manure, which early in spring was 
carefully raked off. It was some trouble, I 
Double Flowering Hawthorn. — P, HUGGINS : 
The flower yon send us is that of the Double 
Flowering Hawthorn. It may be propagated by 
budding in August, just as you bud the apple or 
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