Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-14
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.


 Fight the insects.
 Hand pick market fruits. ] Watch for budding time.
 Keep the fire blight cut out.
 August sown turnips may do the best
 Sorting the tree-fruits for market pays.
 Count on five weeks for bleaching celery.
 Thin the fruit of dwarf pear and apple trees at least.
 Pour a little spirits of turpentine into ant hills and the ants will leave.
 The all but well established law that the graft does not affect the stock into which It is inserted is met by an occasional exception.
 Wash for Trees.-It is a mistake to sup pose that ordinary whitewash, so much used, is the best tree wash. Soft soap reduced to a paint-like consistency with water, and to which has been added strong solution of washing soda, is better for one. A wash made by disso1ving one pound of stove potash in three gallons of water is also considered superior to the lime wash
 Time for Budding ng.-Pears on pear stocks are usually budded in July; on quince in the first half of September. Plums are in the best shape for this operation from the latter part of July until the middle of August, and apples from the first to the middle of August; cherries on mazzard stocks about the first of August, and on mahale about month later Peaches are usually budded in the nurseries the same season the seeds are planted, and Pb'AA'SA'
 The Artichoke.-This vegetable is much more highly esteemed in England than with us The edible portions are the thick scnies of the flower heads, which are eaten both raw and boiled. As soon as the heads are cut III the summer, the plants should be cut down A deep, rich, sandy loam suits the plant the best By starting with seed in April or May setting the plants when large enough into rows three to four feet apart and two feet in the low. they will reach maturity by the second year After the second year offsets may be used for planting new beds Cover the beds with litter every fall trtid spade in a good coat Of tnanhte in the spring.
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 Transplanting Lilies The white or candi- dunn lily may be trapsplanted during this month better than at any other time, for now the bulbs are at rest. By September the first they will have commenced their fall growth
 Grasses that are out of Place in the Lawn The excellence of the definition that weed is a plant out of place is often illustrated by useful kinds Thus it sometimes happens that seeds of the timothy, orchard, or other coarse growing but valuable meadow grasses are carried by the wind into smooth, well kept lawn and here vegetate With one sea sons growth and later the plants of these form tussocks which greatly mar appearances, notwithstanding the free use of the mower, and now they must be looked upon as weeds. The eradication of all such coarse grasses should receive as close attention as that de- voted to the plantains. lawn that is well cared for can never be satisfactory if dis figured by such grasses