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more buds than required ; let them 

 grow about four inches long and rub 

 off all but one or two according to the 

 height of the stump from where the 

 new growth commences. As all my 

 cherry trees (the common red) is cover- 

 ed with Black Knot since spring, in- 

 stead of cutting them all out I intend 

 next spring to use the same method of 

 putting on new heads as with the 

 young trees. With this difference I 

 will leave on all the large limbs, cut- 

 ting them about two feet long from the 

 trunk of the tree, cutting them all off 

 at one height from the ground to form 

 an even tree head. E. Day. 



Elora, Aug. 14th, 1883. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



Dr. John A. Wardek. of North 

 Bend, Ohio, passed away on the 15th 

 of July last, in his seventy-second year. 

 He was one of the most successful 

 physicians of Cincinnati, but in 1855 

 he relinquished the practice of medic- 

 ine, purchased a farm of some three 

 hundred acres at North Bend, where 

 he devoted much of his time to the 

 testing of fruits. He was an enthusi- 

 astic student of nature, and gave much 

 attention to the study of American 

 trees. His writings on Forestry in 

 some of its departments have adorned 

 the reports of our own association, and 

 he was everywhere an acknowledged 

 authority upon matters relating to 

 trees. We had hoped he might have 

 been s})ared for years to come, to give 

 us the fruits of his careful observation 

 and ripe experience which his facile 

 pen recorded in such attractive style. 



Henry B. Ellwanger, of Rochester, 

 New York, died at his residence on the 

 7th of August last, at the early age of 

 thirty-three. His work on the Rose, 

 published last year, has shewn Iiim to 

 be not only an enthusiastic cultivator, 

 but a graceful writer, and systematic 

 student, qualities which caused us to 



expect much from him in coming years. 

 He is taken away at the threshold of 

 his experiments in cross fertilization of 

 the rose, which were already giving 

 promise of very interesting results. We 

 know not how we can spare such an one 

 from our midst, and mourn the loss of 

 a worker in the field of horticulture 

 whose continuance seems to us to be 

 greatly needed. 



THE VICTORIA REGIA. 



HISTORICAL REMIMSCENCKS BY PROFESSOR 

 SAMUEL LOCKWOOD, PH. D. 



It was our privilege to see this queen 

 of the Water lilies in bloom at Kew 

 Gardens, England, October, 1878. There 

 was a display of Water Lilies from all 

 parts of the world, in every witchery 

 of form, color, and odor — pure white, 

 soft rose-tinted, and deep pink, and the 

 loveliest blue. But the most entranc- 

 ing for form, color, size, and fragrance 

 was the Victoria. She shone, indeed, 

 as the empress of the entire floral 

 dominion. 



The present generation cannot real- 

 ize the interest taken in this superb 

 plant nearly forty yeai-s ago — the in- 

 tense desire to get specimens to Europe, 

 the great efforts, and the provoking 

 failures. Even the seed would refuse 

 to germinate. At last, it was taken 

 over the sea in its native water, and 

 painful care was had as to t^mjjerature 

 — even periodical agitiitions of the fluid, 

 as if to deceive the coy embryo into 

 the idea of the flowing of its natal 

 stream. When success wjus attained* 

 it was accounted among the florists of 

 the world as '• the big thing of the age." 

 But the conditions of success were so 

 costly : a glass house, a tank of thirty 

 feet diauieter, and the water steadily 

 kept up to eighty degrees temperature ; 

 private means, unless muniticent, could 

 not suffice. 



The leaves of the plant are six feet 



