THE CAN APIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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gardens. It may not be desirable to 

 lengthen its season, but there is no 

 reason why we should not commence its 

 use a month or two earlier. At the lat- 

 ter end of the season when it becomes so 

 plentiful that it cannot be sold at any 

 price is the right time when every family 

 should put up a few dozen bottles for 

 eai'ly spiing use. No other fruit can 

 be " canned " easier or with less expense 

 in sugar, and no other fruit is better 

 relished during the months of March 

 and Apiil, than the despised rhubarb 

 of the preceding June or July. 



" T. B 

 Lindsay, April, 1884. 



ROCK-WORK AND FERNS. 

 (For the Canadian Horticulturist. J 



I am glad that Mr. Allan has brought 

 the subject of ferns before the readers 

 of the Horticulturist. No more beau- 

 tiful jjlants for a shady place in a gar- 

 den or shruVjbery can be cultivated 

 with so little t/ouble than our native 

 ferns, and none will give greater satis- 

 faction and pleasure to the man of taste 

 who has an eye to the graceful and 

 beautiful. 



I heartily indorse all that Mr. Allan 

 has said in their praise. Some un- 

 sightly places in pleasure grounds might 

 be utilized in the manner he speaks of, 

 and become a thing of beauty. I like 

 the idea of throwiivj the stones when 

 building a rockery. Some carefuHy 

 built rockeries look stifi' and unpleasant 

 to the eye, but, indeed, rock-work is one 

 of the most difficult things to construct 

 tastefully. 



I send you a list of ferns suitable for 

 either a high or low rockery, which 

 ought to be built of limestone if got 

 convenient, as a large portion of ferns 

 are found gi'owiug on the debris of lime- 

 stone rock ; that seems to be theii- habi- 

 tat. Of course, some varieties, such as 

 Osmunda, Onoclea, Struthioptei-is, etc., 

 luxuriate in moist land and swamps, 



but botanists are in their glory when 

 they get a field day at the base of lime- 

 stone rocks where a large amount of 

 debris has been detached from the rock 

 and well shaded with trees. Soil is an 

 important matter in constructing a 

 rockery for ferns, it ought to be well 

 rotted turf and vegetable moidd from 

 the woods. 



AspiDiUM — tilix mas (very rare ; male fem)^ 

 acrostichoides 

 goldianum 

 marginate 

 A.SPLENIUM — filix fcemina 



angustifoliiun 



trichomanes 



viride 

 Scolopendrium (Hart's tongue) loncliitis 

 Adiantum pedatum (maiden hair) 

 Polypodium vulgare 



Camptosorus rhizophyllus (walking fern) 

 Pteris aquilina (common brake) 

 Osmunda regalis 

 Onoclea sensibihs 

 Struthiopteris (ostricli fern) 



William Roy. 



CURCULIO AND PARIS GREEN. 



Mr. Editor, — I was recently con- 

 versing with jMr. Biggar, of Winona,, 

 about his experiments in spraying his 

 orchard with Paris-green. He told me 

 that while he was unable to form any 

 opinion concerning the benefits or other- 

 wise of the Paris green upon his apple 

 trees, owing to the failure of the apple 

 crop last season, he had reason to Vjelieve 

 that the application upon plum trees 

 had a very beneficial effect upon the 

 curculio. When his men were spz-aying 

 the apple trees, they finished ofl' by giv- 

 ing a showering to one plum tree which 

 stood next to the apple trees. This 

 plum tree is one of a row of plum trees 

 forming a continuous row with the 

 apple trees ; and this tree alone of all 

 the plum trees brought any fruit to 

 perfection. From this tree he gathered 

 four baskets of plums, but the fruit all 

 fell ofl" from the remaining trees. The 

 variety is the General Hand, but other 



