Time For Planting Fall Bulbs

" As soon in the fall as bulbs can be obtained, they should be planted, though this will not generally be the case till October, but it is well to bear in mind that the earlier they are planted the finer they will flower".

Time Of Blossoming of Trees

The period of blooming of fruit-trees is regarded by many as indicative of their values in sections exposed to late spring frosts. We shall be glad if any of our friends have made records of the days on which their several varieties of fruit-trees have bloomed, to have them forward us such record, and in connection therewith the soil of the orchard, location, etc.

Fig. 80. - Design for Dwelling-House - Perspective View.

Fig. 81. - First Floor.

Fig. 82. - Second Floor

Fig. 83. - Cellar Plan.

Time Of Picking Apples

A writer in the New York Tribune tells us that G. W. Browning, of Luzerne county, Pa., some years since accidentally discovered that winter apples picked some five or six weeks before the usual time of gathering, would keep sound some months longer than those allowed to ripen on the trees.

Since that time he has picked his apples early, and reserved them for the spring and summer market, thus obtaining much higher prices than if sold in the fall or winter. Whether any effect upon the flavor and quality of the fruit was observable, is not stated.

Time To Make Currant Cuttings

In the northern parts of the United States, currant bushes mature their leaves about the time the early frosts occur. Shoots so matured may be taken for cuttings as soon as the leaves are killed; but going south, the bushes are fully matured in August, and in some parts as early as July, and shed their leaves without the action of frost. In such cases it may be best to make the cuttings when about three-fourths of the leaves are shed, or, better than this, strip off the leaves as soon as about two-thirds of them have fallen, and then wait a week and take the cuttings. Currant shoots so treated will be more likely to grow than they would if cut later in the season. At the north they may be heeled in and planted in the spring, but south they do better if set as soon as made. - Prairie Farmer.

Time To Plant

Strawberries should always be planted early in spring, the sooner the better after the frost leaves the ground, while it is cool and moist. Perhaps there is no greater error in strawberry culture than planting in summer time, after taking a crop of vegetables from the ground, in hope of getting a crop of berries the next summer. The ground being warm and dry, most of the plants will die, and the few that survive will make but a feeble growth, and it will require more care and labor, the next spring, to fill up vacancies and get a good stand of plants, than to commence anew on a separate piece of land that had been freshly ploughed on purpose to receive them.

Titania

Remarkable for the brilliant shades of red and the rich deep black of the zone, the margin being a beautiful shade of yellow.

Titus Peach

This fine new Peach originated with Mrs. Sarah Titus, No. 64 Ogden Street above Eleventh, Philadelphia. Specimens of the fruit were exhibited at the annual fair of the Penn sylvania Horticultural Society, in 1856.

Size, large, 2 and 9-16th inches in length by 2 and 3-16ths broad. Form, roundish. Skin, fair yellow, with a red cheek. Cavity, open. Stone, deeply cut, 1¾ inches long,11/8 wide,7/8 thick - free. Flesh, yellow, red next the stone, juicy, unadherent. Flavor, luscious. Quality, "best." Maturity, from the middle to the last of September. Eaten September 29, 1856.

Titus Peach.