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TJie Canadian Horticulturist. 



STACHYS TUBERIFERA. 



THERE seems to be a great dif- 

 ference of opinion respecting 

 the value of this new vegetable. Mr. 

 E. S. Goff, of the Geneva Experi- 

 ment Station, says : — 



Stachys Tuberifera, a so-called 

 new vegetable from Northern Africa 

 cannot be pronounced a very great 

 acquisition. It belongs to the Mint 

 family, and produces small, fleshy 

 tubers, which in our trial only at- 

 tained the size of acorns. 



A correspondent of The American 

 Garden, says he is certain that it 

 grows in the district of the Bay of 

 Chaleur, P. Q., being, perhaps, brought 

 there by the early settlers from 

 France, but whoever introduced it, 

 he considers it as great a nuisance 

 as'the Canada thistle or the dandelion. 



It is just possible that the variety 

 of Stachys growing near the Bay of 

 Chaleur is not the same as the one 

 recommended for a garden vegetable, 

 as there are at 'least i6o named 

 species, some of which are of a very 

 weedy character and grow very freely. 



Monsieur Fr. Burvenich, Professor 

 in the State School of Horticulture 

 of Belgium, in an article in the March 

 number of the Bulletin cC Arboricul- 



ture, etc., speaks favorably of the 

 stachys, so far as his experience 

 goes, and adds : — 



" This new vegetable has been 

 favorably noticed at the National 

 Exposition of the Art of Cookery, 

 held at Brussels in December, 1888. 

 One of our friends, a great lover of 

 vegetable culture, once said to us 

 that the Crones (Stachys) were at 



Fig. 44. — Stachys. 



least no worse than artichokes. But 

 the question of taste is a settled one, 

 for at the banquet given to General 

 Carnot, upon his accession to the 

 presidency, all the guests found the 

 dish a delicious one." 



We copy from this journal a cut 

 of the plant showing the tuberous 

 roots in their relative size. 



SOME PROMINENT CANADIAN HORTICULTURISTS.-VII. 



R. Mcknight, owen sound. 



IT is always interesting to trace this world, and from humble posi- 

 the history of those gentlemen tions gained wealth and honor. The 

 who have made their own way in consideration of such instances ,is 



