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GARDENING. 



May 



cultural Extension bill, undertaken to 

 assist, free of expense, all teachers who 

 wish to introduce this work into their 

 schools. All parents and teachers inter- 

 ested in this work are asked to send their 

 address for more detailed information to 



Chief Clerk, College of Agric're. 



Ithaca, N. Y. 



ASTRONOMY AND HORTICULTURE. 



The following appeared in a recent issue 

 of the Montreal Star: 



Astronomy is the science of agriculture and pro- 

 duction, the soul of trade and commerce. For 

 example let us take at random a quantity of ordi- 

 nary common seeding peas, and Ipt us divide it 

 into four equal parts, keeping with care each part 

 separately. Then when the season approaches, 

 let us select any spot of ground suitable for vege- 

 tation, and let us sow the peas of the four parts as 

 follows: The first part, the first or second day of 

 the new moon, the second part near the same 

 spot, the first or the second day of the second 

 quarter, the third, the second or third day before 

 the full moon, and the fourth, the second or the 

 third day before the moon disappears. 



Here is the result: the peas sown under tie- new 

 moon will grow very fust and will blossom most 

 beautifully, but wil'l not bear fruit, those of the 

 second part will blossom and will bear very little, 

 those'of the third will not only blossom beauti- 

 fully, but will also bear fruit in abundance, and 



those of the fourth will scarcely rise fr the 



ground. The same rule as to time will apply to 

 all kinds of grain, and also to trees fori h opera- 

 tion from the nursery to the pruningof fruii trees. 



Is the rule given by the writer of above 

 generally followed by gardeners and oth- 

 ers. Geo. C. Ireland. 



Ontario. 



I do not know of any gardener who 

 pays any attention to the moon. The 

 sowing of seeds proceeds from day today 

 as time and weather permits. If the 

 plantings on the last day of the moon 

 resulted in the failures the writer states 

 follows it, they would be often heard of. 

 And what about the nurserymen and the 

 landscape gardener who plant hundreds 

 of thousands of trees day after day, new 

 moon or full moon? 



A German gardener once lived near me 

 who had a belief of this kind. When the 

 moon was in its first half, he called it 

 "coming up" and he planted nothing 

 then as he believed it resulted in an "up 

 growth" viz., all top and no root. But 

 when the moon was in its last half which 

 he called "going down" he worked like a 

 beaver, planting everything he could, as 

 "going down" meant the formation of 

 roots, and good roots he knew were the 

 foundation of good plants. 



However it is not worth while discuss- 

 ing what can so easily be tried, doing 

 with a quart of peas what the writer 

 referred to suggests. J. M. 



CftRYOFTBRlS MflSTflGflNTrlUS. 



A trial was made of this beautiful fall- 

 blooming shrub as to its hardiness at 

 Highland Park, Ills. One plant was 

 mulched at the roots in the ordinary 

 manner and the top well wrapped with 

 straw. Another plant near by was 

 slightly mulched and left unprotected. 

 Both plants were winterkilled, rootsand 

 all. The soil in which they were planted 

 is a clay loam. Both were strong plants 

 set out last spring. A third plant was 

 taken up last fall, planted in a pot and 

 wintered in a cellar, where the tempera- 

 ture ranged from two below zero to forty 

 above and is in excellent condition, the 

 eyes breaking out all along the wood. 



The plant is such a handsome one, 

 blooming at a time when flowers are 

 scarce, and sold at such a low price, that 

 it is well worth growing even if we lose 

 it at the end of the season. However it 

 takes so kindly to cellar treatment that 

 we can easily carry it over the winter in 

 that manner. 



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