THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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S. Josselyn, Fredonia, N. Y., the in- 

 troducer of Fays' Prolific Currant. 



The Swine Breedeh's Manual. — A 

 treatise by Phil. M. S|)ringer, Sjiring- 

 field, Illinois. Price 25 cents. Treats 

 of selecting stock, care of young pigs, 

 guarding against disease, &c., (fee. 



Catalogue of Forest Products, 

 Grasses and other Forage Plants, mine- 

 rals and products of the mines of Ala- 

 bama as shewn at the Southern Ex- 

 position, Louisville, Kentucky, pre- 

 pared by Dr. Chas. Mohr, of Mobile. 



Dig Lewis' Monthly for October 

 has very interesting papers on the Hu- 

 man Brain, Treatment of Prisoners, 

 Treatment of the Insane, House Drain- 

 age, The Check Rein, Beer, Nursing, 

 (fee. They will well repay careful con- 

 sideration. 



William Rknnie's Autumn Cata- 

 logue of choice Holland Bulbs, import- 

 ed by Mr. Kennie, Seed Merchant, cor- 

 ner Adelaide and Jarvis Street, Toronto, 

 188-i, contains hints on the cultivation 

 of the hyacinth, tulips, crocus, (fee, 

 and will be sent free to any of our sub- 

 scribers on application. 



Report of the Department of Agri- 

 culture and statistics of the Province 

 of Manitoba for the year \HS2. At 

 page 47 it is stated that the Champion 

 Grape is the best variety for cultivation 

 in that Province, that this variety in- 

 troduced there under the name of 

 Beaconsfield does not require to be 

 covered in winter. 



Horses, Their Feed and Their 

 Feet, is a valuable duodecimo of 150 

 pages, written by a physician who has 

 studied the physiology of horses, and 

 here discusses the relation of feed to 

 work, the best kinds of feed, when and 

 how to feed, diseases and treatment, 

 <fec. Published by Fowler <fe Wells, 

 753 Broadway, New York. Paper 50c., 

 cloth 75c. 



The American Agriculturist for 

 November has been received. The 

 editors claim that it is not only superi- 

 or to any other issue of that periodical 

 issued during its forty-three years of 

 existence, but is far superior to any 

 number of any similar journal in the 

 world. They certainly have presented 

 an amount and variety of matter which, 

 considering the price of the periodical, 

 is remarkable. 



Experiments in Amber Cane, and 

 the ensilage of fodders, at the Experi- 

 mental Farm of the University of 

 Wisconsin, Second Annual Report, 

 containing also instructions concerning 

 the soil best adapted to the cane, use 

 of fertilizers, preparation of the soil, 

 selection of seed, variety to plant, 

 planting, cultivation, stripping, cutting, 

 care of the cane after cutting, (fee. It 

 appears that there was made in the 

 State of Wisconsin in 1882 four hun- 

 dred and ninety-one thousand and two 

 hundred gallons of syrup. In the re- 

 port on experiments with ensilage, we 

 find that thirteen rows of fodder corn 

 converted into ensilage lasted two cows 

 seventy days, the same quantity equal 

 every way to that made into ensilage, 

 but shocked, bound into bundles and 

 housed, lasted two cows forty-seven 

 days. The two cows fed with dry fod- 

 der yielded in 42 days, 1,322 lbs. 15 oz. 

 of milk and 53 lbs. 5 oz. of butter ; 

 the two fed ensilage yielded in the same 

 time 1,456 lbs. 8 oz. of milk and 59 

 lbs. 8 oz. of butter. 



Annual Address of President Mar- 

 shall P. Wilder before the American 

 Pomological Society at its session in 

 Philadelphia, September, 1883. The 

 following portion of his address is not 

 only deserving of careful perusal, but 

 should stimulate our Canadian Fruit 

 Growei-s to renewed and continued 

 efforts to produce new fruits : 



" It is now more than thirty years 



