SWEET PEAS. 



be bluish grey, but is often spoiled by 

 dark stripes or blotches inherited from 

 Senator, from which it has been selected ; 

 when perfect it is a very fine flower. 

 Stanley, purplish maroon. Dorothy Ten- 

 nant, mauve. Duke cf Clarence, dark 

 mauve and purplish blue. Captain of 

 the Blues, the best blue. 



No doubt some of you will think that 

 it is all nonsense growing so many kinds, 

 but I can assure you there is a great deal 

 of pleasure to be derived from taking 

 any of our garden flowers, sweet peas, 

 asters, poppies, or any other flower you 

 prefer, growing all the available varie- 



ties of it, making a thorough study of 

 their habits and peculiarities, discarding 

 the inferior sorts, retaining the kinds 

 that please you most for future use. 

 Then the next year take up some other 

 flower, pursue the same course with 

 it, and in a few years you will have 

 acquired a knowledge of the floral king- 

 dom, and developed an interest in your 

 garden, such as you never dreamt of in 

 the old days, when you were content to 

 plant the same few papers of mixed 

 seeds year after year.* 



Ottawa. 



R. B. Whvte. 



THE WALNUT. 



Z>1 p^HE walnut is best grown from 

 the nut, but it can also be pro- 

 pagated by budding, grafting 

 and layering. Fresh gathered 

 nuts should be selected, and they can 

 be sown in nurseries in drills two feet 

 apart, or better where it is intended for 

 them to remain, as this tree makes a 

 very strong tap-root, which, if the tree 

 be left too long before removal, may 

 be injured in the transplanting. A 

 deep and perferentially a calcareous soil 

 should be chosen, with a dry bottom. 

 The young tree is somewhat delicate 

 and is apt to be injured by the spring 

 frosts. In cold districts therefore it must 

 be protected for a year or two. Plenty 

 of room must be allowed, as it is a vig- 

 orous grower and makes fully twenty 

 feet in height in ten years, at which 

 date it usually begins to bear a crop. 

 Once established little or no attention 

 is required, and except to remove un- 

 sightly growths no pruning is necessary. 

 It will attain quite loo feet in height, 

 and lives to a great age, its productive- 

 ness increasing with its years. It is 

 very suitable for avenue planting or as a 

 roadside tree. — National Messenger. 



SHRUBS FOR FARMERS 



FE advise all our agricultural 

 brethren to plant largely of hardy 

 shrubbery and herbaceous peren- 

 nials. They require the least attention, 

 suffer least from insect pests, and, if 

 treated liberally as we have advised, to 

 well-rotted muck, barnyard leachings, or 

 an admixture of hen droppings and ash 

 siftings, they will give you the most satis- 

 faction. The beds need not be renewed 

 with the return of each season. If the 

 work is well done when you set out the 

 herbaceous kinds, and you give them 

 plenty of room, they need not be lifted 

 and divided for a period of at least five 

 years. Shrubby perennials have woody 

 stems. There are the deutzias, spirals, 

 hydrangeas, roses, mock-oranges, lilacs, 

 snowballs, golden-bells, tree paeonies, 

 and many more which we find in cat- 

 alogues of hardy shrubs. Let the tallest 

 growing species be planted near the 

 boundaries of your premises in the 

 centre groups, or as screens to conceal 

 unsightly objects from view. — Report 

 Pa. of Horticultural Society. 



* This paper was read before the 0. F.G.A. 

 at Kingston, and will be ioteresting to the 

 members of our Horticultural Societies. — Kd. 



