. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. with Flowers. Orape Vines Around Honses. To sit underones own vine during the summer and fall maybe the laudable ambition of every in cities where there would seem to be noroom, the vine, if it linds a place to stand, will push its roots under sidewalks and pavements,and yield a large supj)ly of fruit with no care savepruning and traing. A southern, eastern;or west-ern aspect are equally good, and one or more ofthese can Ije found around every house. In thecoim try the
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. with Flowers. Orape Vines Around Honses. To sit underones own vine during the summer and fall maybe the laudable ambition of every in cities where there would seem to be noroom, the vine, if it linds a place to stand, will push its roots under sidewalks and pavements,and yield a large supj)ly of fruit with no care savepruning and traing. A southern, eastern;or west-ern aspect are equally good, and one or more ofthese can Ije found around every house. In thecoim try there is room to trim the vines severalfeet from the house, forniing an arbor and afford-ing needed shade to the kitchen window, thewarmth from which will cause late varieties ofGrapes to ripen when they would not in opengrounds exposed to only ordinary air currents.—American Cultivator. Station Bulletins-A Just Criticism. Scarceas hens teeth are interesting bulletins fromstate experiment stations. The work may beexcellent and the results valuable, but such adull way of laying the facts before the public!. T^ Frit it PacMna Press. The tired farmer whose brain almost whirls fromeffect of labor, sun and wind, should not be ex-pected to study for facts which he pays to havepresented to him. Afterwading blindly throughpages of matter one sometimes comes to a tersestatement of results. Would it not make thebulletin more interesting if this summary wereprinted in the first few lines, letting a bright ex-planation of the experiment followV-N. Y. Trib. A Criticised Appointment. It Is thought thatthe appointment of Mr. Walter Maxwell for chiefof the Bureau of Horticulture of the WorldsColumbian Exhibition, will be confirmed al-though there has been consideiable Maxwell, as we hear, is hardly a horticultur-ist, even in the California sense, and much lessone who is familiar with the florist, nursery andseed trade east of the Rocky Mountains. It issuch an appointment as the f
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