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TIIK CANADIAN HOKTIGULTURIST. 



tion with tlie plant, the fruit can be 

 conveniently gatliereil without injury. 

 The yield is much more than double 

 that of the Clien-y ; writing now from 

 memory, would say it is fully equal to 

 the yield of the Victoria ; and the 

 flavor is very considerably less acid 

 than in the Cherry. 



Dr. Hoskins, who resides in Northern 

 Vermont, says that he finds the Fay in 

 every way satisfactory and fully equal 

 to the representations regarding it. 

 There is a I'eal pleasure in being able to 

 say, what can rarely be said in regard to 

 a new fruit, that it fulfils all that 

 was promised for it. 



Wm. Saunders, President of our As- 

 sociation, at the last summer meeting, 

 said, I grow most other varieties, but 

 I have been really surprised with Fay's. 

 It has I'eceived the same cultivation as 

 the other varieties, although I gave a 

 dollar and a half for it, and I must say 

 from what I have seen of it, that I 

 think it is the most promising red cur- 

 rant we have ever had brought before 

 us. 



Professor Waterbury, of the State 

 Normal School, at Geneseo, New York, 

 says of it, " it makes a vigorous and 

 healthy growth, is prolific indeed, bear- 

 ing many long racemes well loaded with 

 the lai'gest and fairest red currants I 

 ever saw ; in fiavoi' sprightly and agree- 

 able, less acid than the Cherry. I con- 

 sider it a decided advance upon any 

 fruit of its class." 



Having such testimony in its favor 

 hj those who have given it a trial, we 

 connnend it to the a,ttention of our 



readers, with the request that they will 

 send to the Canadian Horticulturist the 

 result of their trials with this new 

 cu riant. 



WOOD ASHES. 



Ill the article bearing the above title, 

 at page 37, February number, a slight 

 typographical error has made the state- 

 ment as to the quantity of potash, lime, 

 magnesia, etc. in the ashes of beech 

 wood, not only unintelligible but ridi- 

 culous. The sentence should have read 

 thus, " Ash from the wood of the beech 

 is said by chemists to contain 9.6 

 pounds of potash, 33 pounds of lime. 

 6 pounds of magnesia, 3 pounds of 

 phosphoric acid besides sulphuric acid, 

 to the bushel of 60 pounds." Or it 

 may be stated thus, that the ash of 

 beech wood contains 16-1 per cent, of 

 potash, 3-4 per cent, of soda, lO'S per 

 cent, of magnesia, 56-4 per cent, of 

 lime, 5-3 per cent, of phosphoric acid, 

 1-0 of sulphuric acid and 4-7 per cent, 

 of silica. 



If this error in proof reading shall 

 have resulted in fastening upon the 

 memory of our readers the real value 

 of hard wood ashes, our readers can 

 afford to pardon the oversight. 



A BEAUTIFUL NATIVE PLANT. 



One of the most ornamental herbace- 

 ous plants is our indigenous Butterfly- 

 weed, or Pleurisy-root {Asdepias 

 tuherosa), found everywhere growing 

 wild along roadsides, and on rather dry, 

 sandy slopes, esj)ocially southward. It 

 is a perennial, upright herl), about one 

 to two feet high, with oblong lanceolate 

 leaves covering the stems to the sum- 

 mit. Its bright orange flowers are borne 

 in large, terminal corymbs, and when in 

 full bloom densely cover the plants, pro- 

 ducing a most brilliant efi'ect. The roots 

 are tuberous, and penetrate the soil to 

 consideralile depth. Large plants are 



