. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. acal solution of copper , it ; and Plum stocks can be pre-vented from dropping their leaves prematurelyin the summer. Third, if Quince leaf blight canbewarded of by any similar application. Fourth,if the Apple [powdery mildew does not fall intothe category of preventable diseases. Trees and Vines Near Dwellings. The cuttingof trees is a favorite plan of all idiots to accom-plish what drainage should do. I know a superbstreet, beautiful simply because lined with f
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. acal solution of copper , it ; and Plum stocks can be pre-vented from dropping their leaves prematurelyin the summer. Third, if Quince leaf blight canbewarded of by any similar application. Fourth,if the Apple [powdery mildew does not fall intothe category of preventable diseases. Trees and Vines Near Dwellings. The cuttingof trees is a favorite plan of all idiots to accom-plish what drainage should do. I know a superbstreet, beautiful simply because lined with finetrees forty years old. But this street is abso-lutely without drainage. It depends wholly onthe sun to drink up the rains that fall. Insteadof placing sewers, the trees are hacked at. Inone place they have been trimmed up to let thesun in until they look like inverted say, why do you let the trees stand so nearyour house? Do they not make it damp? I an-swer certainly not. Trees take up vast amountsof moisture and e^?aporate it abroad throughthe foliage. They equalize temperature. Shade. Hose Truck of Iron Piinnu. is an absolute necessity; but so is good want some sunshine, but we want moreshade. I am heartily with Mr. Meehan that vineson a house keep the house dry.—A. P. PowcU. Nitrate of Soda on Tomatoes. A writer in anEnglish journal states that he has extensivelyused nitrate of soda on his Toraat(»cs, beginningwith a pound dissolved in Si gallons of water,and as growth advances increasing the strengthto a pound in 20 gallons. He applies it by water-ing as with pure water, when the soil is nearlydry, then giving them a good soaking oncea week in summer, and once in two weeks inspring and autumn. We greatly doubt whether iSpi. POPULAR GARDENING. 197 this plan would work very well here. Notwith-standini; the recorded experience of the NewJersey Experiment Station, we place but littlecontldence in nitrate of soda as a means of in-creasing the frui
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