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The Canadian Horticnlturist. 



vines get age they seem to be more 

 productive, and the chisters more 

 full. It is one of the most superior 

 keeping grapes we have." 



Mr. G. W. Campbell, of Dela- 

 ware, Ohio, also speaks favorably 

 of it in the " Seventeenth Annual 

 Report of the Michigan Horti- 

 cultural Society, p. 226, where 

 he says : — " The Vergennes is a 

 handsome red grape, which has never 

 failed here to bear and ripen well, 

 though a Httle variable. It has 

 generally ripened about with the 



Concord, but the past season it was 

 a week or ten days later. This I 

 attribute to the heavy crop, as it 

 was allowed to over-bear. It how- 

 ever ripened both fruit and wood 

 well. It has shown no rot, but the 

 foliage has mildewed a little in un- 

 favorable seasons." 



Wishing that this grape should be 

 still more thoroughl}^ tested in all 

 parts of Ontario, our Association 

 has placed it on the list of plants 

 for distribution in the spring of 

 i88q. 



A FEW HINTS ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING.— II. 



" Let not thy front look asquint on a 

 stranger, but accost him right at his 

 entrance. Uniformity also much pleaseth 

 the eye ; and 'tis obsei-vedthat freestone, 

 like a fair complexion, soonest waxeth 

 old, whilst brick keeps her beauty 

 longest." — Fuller. 



THE Italian style of architecture 

 was much employed some 

 thirty years ago, and had many 

 points of excellence. Additions 

 could easily be made to the building 

 without marring the unity of the 

 design ; while the arcades, balconies 

 and projecting eaves gave character 

 to a style which has been deservedly 

 popular for country residences, 

 because harmonizing so well in 

 picturesque beauty with the rural 



landscape. 



But it is not with a view of draw- 

 ing attention to the style of archi- 

 tecture that we introduce this 

 engraving of an Italian villa, but 

 rather to impress our readers with 

 the simple beauty of its surroundings. 

 Here, as at the grounds at Ashton, 

 the large growing trees are chiefly 



planted at the sides and rear, while 

 the front has little to obstruct the 

 view ; however, instead of a simple 

 law^n of green sward, which indeed 

 is, in our view, most to be com- 

 mended, we have here a few choice 

 flowering shrubs near the front door 

 where, of course, their beauty is seen 

 to the very best advantage. This 

 may be excusable in case of very 

 choice shrubs whose beauty of 

 foliage makes them attractive 

 objects even when not in bloom, and 

 where there is an extended lawn 

 beyond the carriage drive. Gener- 

 ally speaking, shrubs should be 

 planted either in connection with the 

 flower garden, or grouped with her- 

 baceous plants along the borders of 

 walks and drives, and in remote 

 corners of the yard. 



They may be also employed as 

 underwood to fill in the groups of 

 trees about the grounds, or to break 

 up into easy regularity a view other- 

 wise too stiff and regular. No 



