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Show TUE FARM, F1ELI, & GARDEN MISCELLANEOUS. Io do occoption is it more desirable desira-ble to keep ahead of the work acd drire it instead of letting it drive us, than in farm work. Both raspberries and b'ackberries seem to do better in young orchards, the Bhade being beneficial and trees protecting the more teoder kinds in winter. The gooseberry requires a good, deep soil, replenished annually by some rich compost, and the ground has to be kept loose and free from weeds, as it has to be mulched. A stick or rod, even a very light one, appears clumsy when used to support very slender plants, suoh as the Sower stems of Carnations, eto. Galvanized wire will answer admirably. Toads are oapital helpers in takmg care of vine paiobes. Lay boards between be-tween the rows to shelter them in the day time, and they will make carnival of the bugs at night. DahJiap. Place a few tubers io the 1 propagating bouse, where they will start early, and when the sprouts are two or three inches long, out off and pot in well manured soil. Currants to do well, require about the same treatment as gooseberries,but look out for the borer and dose him with hellebore or eut off the shoots he has attacked during the winter. The; oan easily be distinguished. Underdraining on all wet soils is in-diepensible in-diepensible to real BHocess in farming. A well drained and well worked heavy soil is rar.'ly affeoted;by drouth. Every enterprising farmer will do more or less draining every spring. At this season the greenhouse should be looking gay with the numerous Sowers which are now in season. Many, tbwero become iojured if water falls upon them; such should be removed at once, together with such leaves and flowers as drop off. Gooseberries and currants should have their weaker shoots thinned out, and a little of those left, fhortened. It makes the fruit muh larger. The foreign varieties mildew badly unless grown where the roots will be moist and oool in summer, but not wet. Grape vines are of ooarse all pruned and tied up. Just as the buds are bursting, the steel blue beetle attacks them. Hand killing is the remfi Where grape vines are to grorf"ii use. twiggy stakes or wire trellis for them to oling to. It is as good as manure. ma-nure. With evergreens, just as they are begioning to burst their buds, moved carefully, and planted immediately there is but little risk more than one half of all the loss in trees by death arises from their exposure. Horticulture ii one of tho tine arts. There is poetry in a garden. Our young ladies will find that an hour's work, every morning, among flowers, or even vegetables, will not only prove one of the best of cosmetics, but that the tone of the mind will be improved hv contact with the useful and the beautiful. ; There arebut two things needed to make Amorican farm life attractive to young people, and these are a knowledge, knowl-edge, soientifio and practical, of all that pertains to the farm and its surroundings, sur-roundings, such as botany, entomology, geology, physiology, especially that branch relating to the rearing of domestic do-mestic animals, and other kindred sciences sci-ences to which any member of the fin.-lly fin.-lly may bavo a natural taste. Ferns are generally so graceful, and present such a variety of form, that it ia no wonder they are popular with plant-lovers. Both out-door and indoor in-door ferneries have of late become popular, and both native and exotic species are used to fill them. For outdoor out-door ferneries almost any of our native species may be used, thero being but few, and these very rare ones, that arc partioular about locality, provided they have sufficient shade. Blackberries Before raspberries aro fully gone, blackberries make their appearance in market; next to strawberries straw-berries tbey are the most profitable fruit crop, while they rcquiro les labor la-bor and are more reliable. They should bo planted in moderately good soil, four feet by eight; very rich land should be avoided, as they are not particular about soil or location, and the canes in nob. land will grow so strong as to require too much pruning, while they are apt not to mature thoir wood and thus become subject to being winter-killed. A repeated shortening in of tho cane and side branchos during tho summer is beneficial, as they will become thereby self-sustaining and bo covered with berries from the ground upwards, instead of bearing only at tho A writer 10 the Horticulturist upon tho subject of peach-tree fertilizers says: 1 have used, the past year or two, a special manure oo my peach trees with marked success. So far as I have tried it i have found it equally good for vegetftDlca, and I see no reason why it is not good manure for fruit trees of all kinds; in fact I have known it to briDg peach trees thatwero dying with yellows, back into4beariog condition. I think very likely it will prevent tho summer blight iu pears. 1 intend to try it the coming season on small pear stock. I use for each acre broadcast, tho. same quantity as ; for an acre of potatoes, and the following are the proportions; 120 lb?, nitrate of soda, SO lbs. potassa, lrV) lb?, euperphos- Ehate of lime, V0 lbs. sulphate of me. The o. of potassa should be ground . After mixing the above together, add three or four parts of fin&mack. When applying the mixture for the benefit of I pejcn tree, spread evenly as far as the ,r03ts extend, and before a rain. |