| Show gardn GARDENS NS on the pm of the ath we were highly gratified with a stroll through elders hyde and woodruffs gardens elder hyde has bar several seedling apples in bearin gand 1 I and his young apple and peach orchards look very thrifty thrifty but in it accordance with tradition the trunks of the trees are too long or in other words the heads are formed too took high for good health safety and convenience in BO so dry sunny and windy a climate as ours at least we think so the tahe ground is in a high state of cultivation and is wisely kept very free from weeds k elder woodruff has some very large and fine flavored va varietine varlet lee iee of the thie yellow and black mountain currant on young 0 bushes raised upon the one stalk or tree plan and tied to stakes stake s to avoid the ext extra ura tra care arid expense in that method or tle the tie breaking down without it we have thought that perhaps the most economical mode of rais raia ii ng that fruit is upon the customary bush system and cut out the oldest canes from time to time at any period between the f ailing falling and nd starting of the lea iea leaves es elder woodruffs Ps fruit trees both the seedling and graf grafted ted wera were growing luxuriantly but they also were too high trun ced except the younger part of his peach orchard liard ilard for this climate our experience indicates that the peach should by be allowed to throw out limbs at or very near th surface say not over a foot or a foot and a half and the apple appl at from one and a half to two feet unless it berison be lipon ripon side walks or at points where a low head B bould obstruct a desirable view |
