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growing season they very soon rush up, and it is not safe to have 

 them large for standing the winter. Well- drained, free soil is 

 essentially necessary for them ; and be more sparing with the 

 manure than for the other varieties. Attend to them when in 

 bloom ; but in this variety leave all the bright yellow blossoms, 

 and weed out those of a dull colour. 



I trust the descriptions above, given under the respective head- 

 ings, have been sufficiently plain, and will be easily understood. 

 It is with the growing of turnip seed as with many things else, — 

 we may be able to impart to others a good deal of what we know 

 ourselves, but there are some important points which nothing but 

 actual experience will enable us to understand. In aiding this 

 knowledge the above is offered as a humble contribution. 



REPORT ON HEDGEROW TREES. 



By John Morrison, Coney Park Nursery, Stirling. 



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The beauty of the landscape is greatly enhanced when the 

 country is studded with hedgerow trees, composed of different 

 varieties, arranged in suitable groups, and dispersed in proper 

 situations. The eye of the traveller looks wearily upon the far- 

 stretching monotony of the plain, relieved though it may be to a 

 certain extent by the distant mountain range, but destitute of the 

 natural and attractive ornamentation which can be given to it 

 only by trees. Their presence here and there dotting the land 

 gives a cheerful and becoming variety ; they stand out in the 

 landscape as the more prominent and beautiful objects which 

 nature places in the page of her book to please the eye of man. 

 A bouquet to be admired must be composed of flowers not of one 

 uniform size or colour, but of the smaller and the greater, and of 

 various hues and shades, the one assisting to show off the pro- 

 portions and loveliness of the other. And somewhat in the same 

 manner the landscape shows to advantage by its well-disposed 

 trees ; for however diversified the scenery in other respects, and 

 however highly cultivated the land may be, the view is tame and 

 uninteresting, naked and barren, unless there be a proper admix- 

 ture of the various forms and colours of trees to variegate and 

 beautify the country. 



Trees give light and shade to the prospect. There is the 

 sombre hue of the forest, or the light and agreeable tint of the 

 solitary specimen ; while all the intermediate blendings or con- 

 trasts of colour are capable of being produced by skilful grouping. 

 There is the feathery and wavy appearance of some, and the more 

 dense and close-set form of others ; the wide-spreading branches, 



