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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 



radish-fly being a preventive, the car- 

 bolic acid odor driving avvay the mother 

 fly and preventing her from depositing 

 her eggs. 



In the case of the cabbage, tlie appli- 

 cation is made to kill the maggot after 

 hatching, or at the time of hatch i)ag, 

 and should be applied at once to all the 

 plants as soon as it is known or sus- 

 pected hat they are present. I do not 

 see \vh a preventive cannot be used in 

 the case of the cabbage antJiomyia as 

 well as others. 



Those who have used superphos- 

 phates, especially the very strong-smell- 

 ing sorts, claim that they are very ob- 

 noxious to all kinds of insect pests, and 

 pay for themselves in this way for 

 garden use. The cost of bi-sulphide of 

 carbon is forty cents per one pound 

 bottle. A druggist told me that one 

 pound would make about 250 half-tea- 

 spoonfuls. — L. H. Pierce, in Ohio 

 Farmer. 



DOUBLE ROSE-COLOURED MYROBA. 

 LAN PLUM. 



Here we have a hardy flowering tree 

 which is likely to prove one of the 

 most impoi-tant introductions to our 

 gardens of late years. It was, it seems, 

 brought over to the last international 

 exhibition at Paris by t]ie Japanese 

 gardeners who showed their products 

 there, and was by tbem given to M. 

 Baltet, of Troyes. M. Baltet thus 

 writes concerning it : "This shrub, 

 which is very hardy and vigorous, is 

 covered early in spring with numerous 

 large sweet-scented flowers disposed in 

 tliickly-set bunches. It is of good habit, 

 the leaves tolerably large, being of a 

 lively green, edged with bright car- 

 mine, the eyes and the leaf-stalks being 

 coloured in the sauig manner. It 

 flowers very e irly, tliree weeks before 

 prunus triloba." M. Cari-i(^'re observes 

 " that this description fails to convey 



an adequate idea of the beauty and 

 merits of this plant, and that the beauty, 

 size, and tine colour of the rose-coloured 

 flowers place this in the very front 

 rank of hardy ornamental plants." 

 This, though high, is doubtless well- 

 merited praise, as its great beauty is 

 supplemented by exceptional precosity, 

 flowei'ing as it does much in advance 

 of all other kinds, a fact which will 

 be sure to give it an important place 

 amongst forcing shrubs, tlie more especi- 

 ally as it is of a vigorous, but at the 

 same time very floriferous nature. — 

 The Garden. 



ONTARIO TREE PLANTING ACT. 



As some of our readers have request- 

 ed us to publish the law relating to 

 tree planting we now give the same as 

 passed by the Legislature of Ontai'io. 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and 

 consent of the Legislative Assembly of the 

 Province of Ontario, enacts as follows : — 



1. This act may be cited as "The Ontario 

 Tree Planting Act, 1883." 



2. Chapter one hundred and eighty-seven 

 of the revised Statutes of Ontario is hereby 

 repealed. 



3. Section four of this Act shall not apply 

 to any incorporated city, town or village, un- 

 less tlie council thereof first passes a by-law 

 making the same apply thereto. 



•4. Any person owning land adjacent to any 

 highway, or to any public street, lane, alley, 

 place or square in this Province, may plant 

 trees on the portion thereof contiguous to his 

 land ; but no tree sliall be so planted that 

 the same is or may become a nuisance in the 

 highway or other public thoroughfare, or ob- 

 struct the fair and reasonal)le use of the same. 



(2) Aii> owner of a farm or lot of land may 

 with the consent of the owner or owners of 

 adjoining lands, plant trees on the boundary 

 lines of his farm or lot. 



(3) Every such tree so planted on any such 

 highway, street, land, alley, place or square, 

 sliall be deemed to l)e tlie property of the 

 owner of the lauds adjacent to such liighway 

 street, lane, alley, place or scpiare, and near- 

 <ist to such tree ; and every such tree so i)lant- 

 ed on the boundary line aforesaid shall be 



