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in a favorable position for irrigation 

 from a spring creek that crosses my 

 place on higher grounds. The question 

 has been under discussion in my own 

 mind for several years, in fact, has been 

 tried in a very rude manner for a year 

 or two. But there ai-e several ques- 

 tions that have been preventing my 

 expending more in a more permanent 

 arrangement. 



1st. Have I a right (legal) to use all 

 the water I require or wish from a 

 stream crossing my place without refer- 

 ence to owners of land on banks of 

 stream lower down, provided I iise the 

 water upon my place (50 acres) exclu- 

 sively ] 



2nd. If not, what proportion of the 

 water may I use? 



3rd. Have I any legal right to use 

 any of the water for irrigation pur- 

 poses ] 



I am very much interested in the 

 above, and have failed, so far, to get 

 clear and satisfactory answers. Per- 

 haps you can help me. 



Geo. M. Aylsworth. 

 Collingwoocl, Ang. 8th, 1884. 



[Will some of our legal readers 

 reply. — Ed.] 



WEEDS. 



Dear Sir, — What is the best work 

 on " weeds," giving the names and de- 

 BcriptioDs of our Canadian weeds, more 

 especially noxious weeds. Kindly an- 

 swer in next number of Canadian 

 Horticulturist. Gr. 



Berlin. 



Reply. — We do not know of any 

 work on Canadian weeds. The nearest 

 to such a book is H. B. Spotten's Cana- 

 dian Botany, Part II., which is a most 

 valuable and reliable guide to the study 

 of our native plants. 



CELEEY CULTURE. 



How to Groiv Fine Celery — A_ new 

 method bv Mrs. H. M. Crider, pub- 

 lished by"'H. M. Crider, York, Pa., 

 price 25 cents, is the title of a pamph- 

 let of fourteen pages received by us, 

 which we have read with care in the 

 hope of being profited by the perusal. 

 This ti-eatise commences with some 

 general remarks on the difficulties that 

 hitherto had bee:i supposed to attend 

 the cultivation of celer\' and the sud- 

 den awakening of the -writer to the 

 recollection that celery was a semi- 

 aquatic plant, and then on page seven 

 gives instructions for raising the plants 

 from the seed. The method here given 

 is that usually pursued in the raising 

 of plants from seed, for which no nov- 

 elty is claimed. On the next page is 

 given instructions for planting out, in 

 which we are told to open trenches two 

 feet deep, leaving one foot of fine soil 

 in the bottom, and set the plants in the 

 trenches in single rows, six inches 

 apai't. Now, there is nothing new in 

 this. Corbett, who wrote long ago, 

 gave directions for making trenches 

 twelve to fifteen inches deep, putting 

 rich compost in the bottom, digging it 

 in and planting six or eight inches 

 apart in the bottom of the trenches. 

 We thought that we had got out of 

 these trenches in celery-growing. The 

 writer has grown celery successfully for 

 many years without planting in 

 trenches at all. Indeed this trench- 

 making is a useless expenditure. Our 

 method is to open furrows with the 

 plough about four feet apart, then drive 

 along them \vith the team hitched to a 

 waggon loaded with fine compost, and 

 half fill the furrows with the compost, 

 then with the plough thi*ow the earth 

 back and cover the compost ; follow 

 with the roller to level off the ridges, 

 and plant with the dibble over the 

 compost. The trouble and expense of 

 opening trenches two feet deep and 



