Training Petunias

A writer in the London Garden says that a fine effect is obtained by this method of training petunias. He procures a number of hazel rods, each about two feet long, bends them like hoops, and drives both ends into the bed, placing them at suitable intervals all over it. On these he ties and trims bis petunias, which blossom more abundantly than usual under this treatment. Petunias have been successfully treated as if sweet pea vines, and trained on a slanting trellis. The trailing habit of this plant, especially late in the season, is not always sufficiently considered.

Training The Gooseberry

This prolific fruit may be taken in hand and improved in appearance as well as fruitfulness, by adopting the mode here represented, which will be found profitable, both as regards economy of space and easy access when picking.

The currant may also receive the same treatment, and a great increase in the neatness and appearance of the garden will also bo the result.

Training Tree

A writer in one of our exchanges says: Trees with low heads do bear sooner and better, and will bear longer than whip-stalks and bean poles. On our prairies low-headed trees are the only ones that can hold up their heads or hold on their fruit. They are naturally shaped fruit bearers, and they are miserably unpopular with that class of purchasers who know more about trees than the men who raise them. This is a most important subject, and fruit growers will never repent but once, if they prune their trees up high. Like most tyros, we began so too, and it has inflicted one perpetual sorrow upon us. The low tree is healthier, not so subject to affections of the bark or insects, not injured by winds, the fruit is easier gathered - in fact, every reason in favor of low growth. We now try to form a head not higher than three feet from the ground, for apples, letting the branches grow out.

Transactions Of The Essex Agricultural Society For The Year 1861

Published by order of the Society, - This Essex is in the State of Massachusetts, though one may read these Transactions from title page to "finis" with scarcely an inkling of the fact These Transactions, occupying 200 pages, are well printed. Many of the Reports, Statements, and Essays are valuable papers, and worthy of preservation. Transactions like these are store-houses of material for our agricultural history.

Transactions Of The Essex Mass., Agricultural Society, For 1854

In addition to the very interesting reports of committees, we find in this document an address by Richard S. Bat, Esq., and the premium essay by Dr. E. G. Kelley, of Evergreens, Newburyport, Mass. We have read Dr. Kelley's essay with great pleasure. The subject is one of equal importance to the farmer and gardener - Deep Tillage. We shall be able to notice it more fully in our next.

Transactions Of The Indiana State Horticultural Society

J. S. Dunlop, Esq., will please accept our thanks for a copy of Transactions of the Sixth Session of the Indiana Horticultural Society. In its records we recognize many of our old correspondents, and are pleased to read their sayings relative to fruits. In the death of George M. Beeler, the Society, as well as the countrv, lost one of its most valuable and enthusiastic as well as correct pomologists.