Hints

The moat hardy plants should be at once removed to summer quarters, out of doors, if not already done; if these plants remain inside too late in the season, it induces a weak growth, which is sure to suffer when removed, outside, and the room is also required at this season for those plants intended to occupy the house for the summer months. Exceptions should be made for a time for Camellias which have not yet completed their growth, and any other delicate plants which have been cut in and repotted to insure a better and more vigorous growth.

Hints On The Culture Of Gooseberries

A straight-forward, sensible article - to any one who grows them. But for all edible purposes, a dozen hills of rhubarb are worth half a hundred gooseberry bushes, when you consider the trouble of pruning the bush and picking its berries. Yet, at the rate Mr. Thompson's bushes bear, and the price at which he sells his fruit, they are an object to the humblest gardener, who is under great obliged tiona for this plain and well illustrated communication.

Hippophae Rhamnoides

This shrub, common on the south shores of Lake Erie, is highly praised by a correspondent of the Gardener's Chronicle. He speaks of it as having, when in fruit, "spikes of berries six to nine inches in length, the berries of a primrose color underneath and rose color next the sun, oval in shape and about the size of holly berries." We have often advised our amateur friends to plant this shrub, because of the silvery character to the underside of the leaves, making it one of the most ornamental agents in forming a shrubbery. It is perfectly hardy, and easily transplanted.

History

The Brandywine is a native of Delaware. It originated near Wilmington with my brother, Jno. R. Brinckle, from a seed of the White Bigarreau grown near the May-Duke. This fine and beautiful variety fruited for the first time in 1851.

History #1

The original tree was produced from seed saved by my maternal grandfather (Judge J. Taylor, of Charlton, Saratoga Co., N. Y.) and family, and brought by my father, Daniel Holmes, of Wilson, Niagara Co., N. Y., and planted where he now lives, forty years ago. From the product of those seeds he planted his first orchard, but subsequently reheaded by grafting all the trees except the one that produced this apple. This proved so good that he not only saved the original tree, but also had several others grafted with scions from it. He has also distributed scions to a limited extent.

Hoe With The Rake

This may be an Irishman's advice; but we have found great advantage in the use of an iron tooth rake or toothed hoe during the early cultivation of all garden crops. We go over our beets, parsneps, peas, beans, etc., with a twelve-tooth steel rake as soon as they show sign of coming above ground. For potatoes, corn, and for working among raspberries and other small fruits, and for stirring the surface earth around dwarf pears and recently planted trees, we use a four-pronged hook or hoe, with which a man will perform nearly or quite one sixth more work in a day, destroy the weeds, and leave the ground always light, loose, and even.