THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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Like the larger portion of our native 

 trees, this species forms more root than 

 top the fii-st year, consequently one-year 

 seedings are usually rather small for 

 planting in the hedge-row; but they 

 should not remain longer than two 

 years, else they will be on the other 



PLtrerae. — Josiah Hoopes, in iV. Y. 

 ribune. 

 BOOK NOTICES. 

 _ Tick's Floral Guide for 1883 is 

 an elegant annual, most tastefully got 

 up, and profusely and beautifully illus- 

 trated, not only with engravings with- 

 out number, but also with three colored 

 plates, which are just perfect gems. It 

 is not merely a catalogue of seeds and 

 articles which the publishers have for 

 sale, but is also a guide to the culti- 

 vation of them as well. You can obtain 

 a copy of this most instructive work for 

 ten cents by addressing James Yick, 

 Rochester, N.Y. 



The American Agriculturist cele- 

 brates its forty-second year with new 

 dress, new artists, new writers, and 

 radical improvements generally. Dur- 

 ing the year 1883, every number of 

 this leading Agricultural Journal will 

 contain nearly one hundred columns of 

 original reading matter, and from fifty 

 to eighty original illustrations and 

 engravings. Notwithstanding this great 

 amount of reading matter, it is supplied 

 at the low rate of 1 1 .50 a year. 200,000 

 copies of the October issue were pub- 

 lished. See advertisement elsewhere. 

 Send for a sample copy. 



The Twenty-Fifth Edition of the 

 Descriptive Catalogue of Ornamental 

 Trees, Shrubs, &c., of EUwanger & 

 Barry, Rochester, N.Y., is handsomely 

 illustrat-ed with a finely executed 



' Chromo-lithograph of the Weigela Can- 

 dida, and with numerous engravings, 



f shewing the peculiarities of form of 

 leaf, tree and flower of a great number 



of our most interesting i:-e( s and shrubs 

 and perennial plants. It is a valuable 

 work of reference, giving accurate de- 

 scriptions of a great variety of decidu- 

 ous and evergreen trees and shrubs, 

 most of which are hardy in our Cana- 

 dian climate, bringing to our notice 

 those of recent introduction and those 

 possessing any marked peculiarity in 

 form or color of foliage or habit of 

 growth. 



The Canadian Entomologist is 



closing its Fifteenth Yolume under the 

 supervision of the President of the 

 Entomological Society of Canada, Prof. 

 Wm. Saunders, of London, Ont., who 

 has so ably edited it during all these 

 years of its history. This monthly 

 organ, in connection with the annual 

 report of the society, has done a great 

 deal in the way of disseminating in- 

 formation concerning the life history of 

 insects injurious or beneficial to the 

 tiller of the soil, and concerning the 

 methods of preventing the attacks of 

 injurious insects, or of destroying them 

 in the early stages of their existence, 

 and thereby preventing their ravages. 

 The December number for 1882 has 

 not yet come to hand, possibly the 

 hibernating habits of many of the crea- 

 tures of which it treats has an eflfect 

 upon the development of the winter 

 numbers. 



The Maryland Farmer, at the com- 

 mencement of the new year, presents 

 its readers with a portrait of the Hon. 

 Oden Bowie, one time Governor of 

 Maryland, known as an extensive 

 farmer, planter and stock-breeder, whose 

 homestead farm contains nearly a thou- 

 sand acres, in each field of which he 

 has left from six to ten aeres of wood- 

 land. The Farmer is published monthly, 

 under the care of Ezra Whitman, Bal- 

 timore, Maryland, and now entei*s upon 

 its twentieth volume, the oldest agri- 

 cultui-al journal in the State. It is, 



