THE CANADIAN HORTICULTtJRlfeT. 



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Berheris Sinensis is perfectly hardy, 

 grows two or three feet high, and is of 

 drooping habit. When full of ripe 

 fruit, it looks like a fountain of scarlet. 



Berheris Thunhergii has fine autumn 

 foliage, and when the fruit, which is of 

 a deep, rich .scarlet color, is ripe, forms 

 a perfect picture. It is a low growing 

 shrub. 



Neviusia Alahamensis belongs to the 

 Rose family ; it has numerous bunches 

 of pure white flowers, and is quite 

 showy. Though from Alabama, it is 

 perfectly hardy. 



Erica vagans, E. v. rubra, E. carnea, 

 and Calluna vulgaris all do well on 

 thoroughly drained land, with a slight 

 covering ; if the snow blows off and 

 leaves them bare, they burn. 



Leiophyllum buxi/olium has stood in 

 the Botanic Garden at Cambridge for 

 twelve years. It is a small evergreen 

 bush, growing about one foot high. A 

 larger foim, from the mountains of 

 North Carolina, has a larger leaf, of a 

 more waxen appearance. — American 

 Garden. 



RELATION OF SEEDS TO QUALITY 

 IN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 



In 1879 I was strongly impressed 

 with the apparent relation between the 

 abundance of seed and the quality of 

 the fruit in the case of the Christiana 

 melon. Of the crop of this year I 

 tasted many hundred melons, keeping 

 the seed only of those which were of 

 very superiorflavor and quality. Where 

 the quality was very superior, the 

 quantity of seed was small ; where the 

 quality was not up to standard, the 

 seeds were in greater abundance; where 

 the quality was very inferior, the seeds 

 were very numerous. I have not as 

 yet collected sufficient material for the 

 thorough discussion of the relation 

 between quality and seeding, but such 



observations as I have thus far obtained 

 seem to indicate that such a relation 

 exists ; and as our fruits and vegetables 

 gain in certain respects, this gain is 

 counterbalanced by a loss elsewhere. — ^ 

 E. Lewis Sturtevant, M.D., m The 

 Journal of the American Agricultural 

 Association. 



SOUHEGAN BLACK CAP RASPBERRY. 



The Souhegan Black Cap Rasjyherry 

 was grown from the seed by a farmer in 

 Hillsborough County, N. H., in 1870, 

 and bearing fruit of great promise was 

 propagated and extended into fruiting 

 plantations, and the fruit sold in the 

 large towns of the County, for at least 

 eight years past. 



A tree dealer saw merit in its beauty 

 and quality, and contracted to take all 

 that could be grown for his orders. His 

 sales were not veiy large, and the origi- 

 nator and grower of the plants did not 

 receive much satisfaction in trying to get 

 his rich production upon the market. 

 He continued to grow ancl sell fruit, 

 selling few plants, knowing it would 

 sometime become known and command 

 a place on the market. 



In Hawthorne Hall, Boston, Sept. 

 1881, the Souhegan was under discussioa 

 before the American Pomological Soci- 

 ety, before an audience of fruit growers 

 from all parts of the country. Jacob 

 W. Manning of Reading, Mass., Mr. 

 Hale of Conn., Mr Lovett of N. J., and 

 others, had only good words for it. It 

 originated in the valley of the Souhegan 

 River, K. H. The old merits were 

 stated as I gave them in 1879. Perfect 

 hardihood, unparalleled in fruitfulness, 

 berries often thl'ee-fourths of an inch in 

 diameter, with thirty berries on a single 

 branch, ripening before any other Black 

 Cap known, of superior quality, a clear 

 black color, not the light bloom borne 

 by all other varieties of the species ; the 

 bloom or mouldy look has been a detri- 



