EXTEA'SION OF FRUIT GROWIXG.—II. 



and there is no apple they will look at, 

 when they can get our Northern Spys 

 and Greenings. 



Are they all going to become mer- 

 chants or mechanics or the paternal 

 acres still going to be worked ? Are 

 these acres to become barren wastes or 

 are they still to be planted with some- 

 thing to produce a crop to sell ? I 

 judge they will be planted each and 

 every year with something. Fruit plant- 

 ing will not be overdone until the pro- 

 fits are less than the profits from 

 some other branch of farming. We 

 cannot grow more grain here in the 

 valley per acre than they can in other 

 sections, so when fruit growing ceases 

 to be more profitable than other lines of 

 farming, land will be worth no more per ' 

 acre, a fall of one half from its present 

 value. Is there a grower in this room 

 believes that such will ever be the case. 

 I scarcely see on what ground any man 

 can look for a permanent betterment of 

 present conditions in the grain, dairy, or 

 meat industries and I can scarcely see 



how any profit lies in any of these 

 branches now. What then are the 

 farmers of Canada to do. It seems to 

 me reason would teach us to plant that 

 which our competitors cannot gro.v. If 

 you live in a peach section and have 

 land suitable, plant peaches, for there 

 are few sections can grow these. If on 

 the other hand you cannot grow peaches, 

 cherries or grapes ; perhaps you can 

 grow plums, if not plums then perhaps 

 pears, and if not pears then you cer- 

 tainly can grow apples, the choicest in 

 the world ; neither the North-West or 

 the Western States, nor the Southern 

 States, neither Australia, Argentine Re- 

 public, India, Denmark or Germany, all 

 our competitors in some one or other 

 lines of farming can grow apples to com- 

 pare with Ontario or Nova Scotia. We 

 have the whole world for a market, with 

 safe transport and reasonable rates. In 

 no other branch of farming have we so 

 much of an advantage ; so I can safely 

 say planting of fruit orchards, vineyards, 

 etc., has not been overdone in Ontario. 



FLOWERS FOR WET CORNERS. 



O not despair if a portion of your 

 lawn is swampy or boggy ; con- 

 sider yourself well favored, for 

 here you can plant moisture loving 

 plants, the poor man's orchids as some 

 writers call them : irises, or i[ag% fleur-de- 

 lis (the royal insignia of France), than 

 which there is nothing so beautiful and 

 nothing that repays so well the little 

 labor expended on them. The different 

 species are English, German, Siberian, 

 Spanish, and Kaempfer's from Japan. 

 Plant the Japanese beauties in the wet- 

 test places, and the others along the 

 edge of your bog. Place a clump of our 

 native typha, or cat-tail in their midst ; 

 bring some yellow spatter-docks, with 

 their rich, shining green leaves, from 

 the ponds or low shores of the river. 

 In this swampy situation astilbe does 



well ; and by all means bring home 

 with you from the brookside. myosotis, 

 forget-me-not ; some cinnamon ferns : 

 the native brilliant cardinal and the 

 giant blue lobelias, the swamp milk- 

 weed, asckpias incarnata : the native 

 pitcher plant sarraeenia : calopogon, 

 a lovely bog orchid ; sagittarias, or ar- 

 row heads, and pontederias, or pickerel 

 weeds If there is sufficient water to 

 form a basin, you can add nymphea, our 

 native pond lilies, and the stately um- 

 brellas of the Nelumbium. Vour swamp 

 will cease to be an eyesore, and you can 

 feast your vision on the artistic beauties 

 of its denizens all summer. We have 

 said enough about herbaceous peren- 

 nials ; a volume could be written on 

 their beauty and excellence. — Report 

 Hort. Soc, '95. 



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