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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Mapsh Mallows 



38. Is there any way of destroying marsh 

 mallow in a lawn without injuring the sod ? 

 — W. A. Brownlee, Mt. Forest. 



Reply by J. A. Simmen, Toronto. 



I should imagine there would not 

 be any difficulty in destroying this. 

 Cut the plants out and apply a small 

 quantity of salt in each place the 

 plant is cut out. 



Tulip Culture 



39. Would you kindly give us a few hints 

 on tulip culture ? Should the beds be pre- 

 pared in the Fall so as not to require any at- 

 tention in Spring ? Should tulips be set in 

 beds devoted wholly to their culture ? What 

 time should the bulbs be taken up and when 

 replanted, etc. ? 



Reply by J. A. Simmers, Toronto. 



The proper time to prepare the 

 beds and plant tulip bulbs is in the 

 Fall, and if properly prepared they 

 need have no attention in the Spring, 

 when you will have one of the pret- 

 tiest sights the eye could imagine, 

 shortly after the frost is out of the 

 ground. In some gardens, beds are 

 made consisting entirely of tulips, 

 but very pretty effects may be made 

 by making a bed with hyacinths, 

 narcissus, jonquils, snowdrops and 

 crocus, mixed, which will flower at 

 intervals until the summer plants are 

 ready to be set out. The bulbs need 

 not be taken up each year, every 

 other year will do, and if so done, 

 take the bulbs up about three weeks 

 after they are done flowering, dry 

 them thoroughly in the sun, and, 

 when sufficiently dry, the bulbs will 

 keep splendidly until the time of re- 

 planting — about the middle of Oc- 

 tober. 



Seedless Apples. 



40. I SEND with this a certificate of a new 

 apple. Bloomless, seedless and coreless. 

 A seedling of unknown parentage. Been 

 producing fruit twelve years without bloom. 

 Apple medium size, fine flavor, rich and 

 good, seedless, solid flesh, yellow, and a good 

 bearer. I would like to have it tried in 

 Canada. — G. W. Robinette, Flag Pond, Va., 

 U.S.A. 



Certificate. 

 Flag Pond, Va., April 28, 1888. 



We the undersigned being acquainted with, 

 Mr. G. W. Robinette, and with his bloom- 

 less apple, do know that he is a man of truth, 

 and that his apple is as he represents it to 

 be, which produces its fruit without bloom, 

 and is also seedless. 



Signed by twelve persons, and ecrtified bv 

 W. A. Oiven, J. P. 



We would be glad to see samples 

 of this curious apple, and would like 

 to test it. Thinking the sport very 

 remarkable, we have submitted the 

 letter to Prof. Panton, Professor of 

 Botany at the Ontario Agricultural 

 College, and his reply is as follows : 



" Regarding your question re seed- 

 less apple, I have not much faith in 

 its continuance. An apple must 

 result from a properly developed 

 flower, and w^e know fertilization has 

 much to do with this development. 

 See the irregular fruit of some straw- 

 berries which are not properly fertil- 

 ized. The whole question seems to 

 be of a peculiar nature and the results 

 of an abnormal character. 



" It is something I have never seen 

 or heard of before, and as far as I can 

 learn, at variance with the teachings 

 of botanical science. I certainly 

 would be very suspicious about it 

 and have little or no confidence in 

 the fact. You had better appeal to 

 some of the practical veterans on 

 the question." 



Bruce s Erfurt Cauliflower. 



41. — Please tell me through the Question 

 Drawer how much an acre of J. A. Bruce's 

 Erfurt Cauliflower is worth in Ontario 

 markets, and oblige T. R. H., Cote des 

 Neiges, P.Q. 



Reply by J. A . Bruce, Hamilton. 



Respecting our strain of Erfurt 

 Cauliflower we know that from !ji48o 

 to iif)6oo has been realized per acre, 

 and in many instances where the 

 area planted was from one-quarter 

 to one-half an acre the returns were 

 much greater than stated above. 

 What it may be worth in the future 

 is hard to predict. We only talk of 

 the past. 



