THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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favoi'ice dish with Spanish Californians. 

 — New York Tribune. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



How TO Become a Good Mechanic 

 is intended to be a practical guide to 

 self-taught men, telling them what to 

 study, what books to use, &c. ; in short, 

 how the young mechanic may rise from 

 the bench to something higher. Pub- 

 lished by the New York Industrial 

 Publishing Comjjany. Price 15 cents. 



The Ameru;an Garden for Decem- 

 ber is V»eautifully printed on fine paper 

 and illustrated with a great variety of 

 engravings, while the information im- 

 parted under the head of Vegetable 

 Garden, Fruit Garden and Flower Gar- 

 den, &LC., is of great value to every one 

 who has any taste for horticulture. It 

 is published monthly by B. K. Bliss & 

 Sons, 34 Barclay street, New York, at 

 %\ a year. 



Wilford's Microcosm, a religio- 

 scientitic monthly, devoted to the dis- 

 coveries, theories, and investigations of 

 modern science in their bearing upon 

 the religious thought of the age, pub- 

 lished by Hall k Co., 23 Park Row, 

 New York, at $1 per year. The De- 

 cember nuuiber is full of very interest- 

 ing pajiers, especially the one entitled 

 " Sin not an unlooked-for intruder, but 

 embraced in the Creator's eternal jjur- 

 pose." 



Stray Leaves of Music. — Oliver 

 Ditton & Co., Boston, Mass., have sent 

 as specimens of their mdVith's work in 

 issuing Songs and pieces for everybody 

 an attractive collection, comprising : — 

 Menetto. (Stray Leaves), (35 cents) 

 pretty and quaint musical sketch by 

 Brandeis. Beggar-Student March, (30 

 cents) arr. from Millbcker by Le Baron. 

 Princess of the Canaries Gallop (30 

 cents) bright arrangement by Le Baron. 

 No More, (40 cents,) song by Nicola 

 Ferri. Tarry with me, O my Saviour, 

 (35 cents,) beautiful Solo, Duet and 



Octet, by M. Loughlin. When Old 

 Age Comes. (40 cents) Italian and 

 English words. By Tosti. The Letters 

 we Carved on the Tree. (40 cents) A 

 most attractive ballad, by F. B. Haynes. 

 Some Grief Your Looks Betray. (35 

 cents) Lakme. No Surrender. (30 cts.) 

 Stirring Song by Barri. 



DOUBLE WHITE BRAMBLE. 



{Rnhus /)-uticosus pompo7ims.) 



Of the multitude of varieties that ex- 

 ist of the common Blackberry there are 

 three only that can be recommended as 

 oniamental garden plants, and these, 

 owing to their spreading and pictur- 

 esque gi'owth, are particularly suitable 

 for planting as isolated specimens on 

 lawns. They consist of the double pink 

 (roseus £l.-pl.) a kind which produces a 

 profusion of small rosette-like flowers 

 of a beautiful pink colour ; the Par- 

 sley-leaved, or laciniatus, a well-known 

 variety, with elegantly-cut foliage ; and 

 the double white. This variety is par- 

 ticularly beautiful, its flowers reminding 

 one more of miniature clusters of Aimoe 

 Vibeit Pi ose than of those of a Biamble. 

 Its blossoms, being semi-double and pure 

 white, contrast charmingly with the foli- 

 age, which is of a paler hue than that 

 of other Brambles. Like others of its 

 race, it thrives anywiiere, and olten in 

 places where no other ornamental plants 

 would grow. Trained against a wall it 

 is a fine (jbject, and its vigorous growth 

 rapidly covers a large space. It is use- 

 ful, too, for .screens, l)ut its proper posi- 

 tion is on a lawn where it lias free scope 

 in which to develop itself in all direc- 

 tions. In such a po.sition it soon makes 

 a huge symmetrically sliaped bush, 

 which from early summei- till late in 

 autumn is covei-ed with bloom. It 

 thriAes in any soil, but vvliere it has its 

 choice seems to prefer a liglit warm one. 

 It has been long cultivated in gai-dens, 

 and appears to have originally come 

 from Italy. — The Garden. 



