. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. only readily established itself, butgrew and spread very freely. We have no doubtthat to-day .iOO plants could be dug up aroundthe plant set out a year ago. The conclusion isunavoidable that here is a plant that is out ofplace in the cultivated border—it must go tosome spot of poor soil in the wild garden, whereits propensity to spread will be checked, and where, we doubt not, it will prove to be a desira-ble addition to our collection. Soil Conditions. The real extent of the draw-back
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. only readily established itself, butgrew and spread very freely. We have no doubtthat to-day .iOO plants could be dug up aroundthe plant set out a year ago. The conclusion isunavoidable that here is a plant that is out ofplace in the cultivated border—it must go tosome spot of poor soil in the wild garden, whereits propensity to spread will be checked, and where, we doubt not, it will prove to be a desira-ble addition to our collection. Soil Conditions. The real extent of the draw-backs and diflSculties which confronted us in alloui gardening operations last season, impressesitself on our mind more strongly than it did evenat the time we were annoyed by them, now thatwe see the soil work up in such exceedingly fineshape. Thecontrast is indeed wonderful. Whatlast season was at one time a bed of mortar, andat another a lot of hard-baked lumps and clodsthat could not be fined by any amount of workwith a great variety of the most improved mod-em pulverizers and harrows, now is made into. proper jJacein the drill, and slighly cover it withthe foot, finally stepping upon the hill. Theonly thing needful is to guard against the littleflea beetle. Tobacco dust, or a strong extractused as a spray, may be used as a means of de-fense. When the plants are large enough, pullall plants except the best in each hill. We are always sure of having plenty of Cauli-flowers, and plenty of Cabbages also, since weadopted this plan, and it saves us the troubleand fussing made necessary by the method ofgrowingplants in frames and transplanting the way, we also follow a similar method ingrowing our stock of Lettuce. The fruit outlook on ouryoung trees at this writing is mostglorious. Cherries and Peachesappear full of buds, and barringthe slip twixt cup and lip,promise to give us fruit in abund-ance. The Peen-to Peach alonesuccumbed to the cold of a north-ern winter, showing
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