I.S 



TJic Canaiiian Horticulturist. 



The bulbs have a hard, vvoodv cover- 

 inj,'. and should not be kept out of the 

 ground for any length of time. Some- 

 times after transplanting in the spring 

 they might not make their appearance 

 until midsummer, or perhaps not at all, 

 but the bulbs being hardy will not hm't 

 by remaining in the ground, and will, 

 most likely, make their appearance the 

 following spring. This may seem a rather 

 long time to wait, but I do not say this 

 will occur ever}' year. It is only on rare 



occasions this happens ; biit for an ex- 

 ceedingly pretty and rapid climber this 

 should take a prominent place in the fu- • 

 ture. 



I trust any person trying the foregoing 

 bulbs may have the success I anticipate, 

 as they frequently find an obscure place, 

 on account of not having been valued 

 sufficiently. Every one should succeed 

 even with ordinary care, so if extra care 

 is bestowed there should be no com- 

 plaints heard of. 



FORESTRY 



TO-DAY FOR FORESTRY 



Bv Forester. 



THERE is no time more suitable for 

 the tree-planter than the present 

 in Ontario. 



Prof. Fernow, Dii"ector of the Ameri- 

 can Department, says in a late paper the 

 man who plants to-day will have timber 

 just when it is valuable, and in this Pro- 

 vince when the natural supply is not yet 

 exhausted ; but so many countries which 

 once supplied themselves both with fuel 

 and manufactured wood are now seeking 

 it a little further from hcjme, it may well 

 be that we can anticipate the profit of 

 our plantation, if available when the 

 forests of this wooded country are at last 

 extinct. 



I never heard of logs brought to a saw- 

 mill by railway until last year, and now a 

 factory near by using a lot of hardwood 

 finds it cheaper to import the logs than 

 to search for the few scattering trees in 

 this country still depending on the native 

 forest. 



If we can even to-day induce owners to 

 care for and preserve the wood lots and 

 encourage the product, it is not too late 

 for scientific forestry to be a useful as well 

 as interesting study for both the land 

 owner and the manufacturer, and if we 



can lay out plantations on a scale and of 

 a kind to continue the supply to which 

 we are accustomed, our study will be 

 practical as well. 



The economic value of forest products 

 is really under-valued too often. I hear 

 men say that plantations are only for 

 futurity. It is true that the climatic and 

 protective influences of a plantation in- 

 crease for a long period, and that large 

 trees are of more value in the arts than 

 small ones ; but it is not necessar)? for a 

 plantation to grow into a forest before it 

 is profitable. 



A factory near me offers to buy more 

 trees than our plantation will ever raise, 

 and take them all as soon as they are six 

 inches in diameter — ash, locust, hickory, 

 oak, elm. 



Of course we have no data in this 

 country to show what the real growth of 

 a plantation would be, but if there is any 

 truth in the reports of our American 

 neighbors, the ash, locust and elm ought 

 to average six inches at less than ten 

 years of age from seed, much less if from 

 nursery seedlings. 



If any manufacturing neighbor knows 

 now the difficulty of getting his supply, is 



