THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



my new invention. The platforms of 

 the grader are tight drawn sail cloth. 

 The fruit is run to grading plates or 

 bars, and are caught by a standard 

 separator, either 2, 2)^.3, or 3)^ inches 

 in diameter. Smaller fruit is dropped 



on a linen slide, and carried to the 

 second grader ; culls fall in a drawer 

 beneath. 



Every package is stamped according 

 to diameter of apple, peach, or pear. 



ENTRANCE TO QUEEN VICTORIA PARK. 



Fig. 1351.— Entrance to Queen Victoria Park. 



Sir, — I send you the inclosed pho- 

 tograph showing the entrance to the 

 Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park ; also 

 showing a bed of hydrangea panicu- 

 lata grandiflora in full bloom, which has 

 been the admiration of thousands of 

 people during the past four summers ; 

 the bed contains 152 plants, and are 

 in four rows, and planted two feet be- 

 tween the plants ; they make a grand 

 display, and immense panicles of bloom ; 



the plants are trimmed back to from 

 four to six inches every spring, and only 

 four of the strongest shoots left, all the 

 rest of the wood is cut back to one or 

 two buds, or trimmed on the spur sys- 

 tem ; the bed is then lightly forked over 

 and a good coat of mulch put on and 

 left alone then to the following spring. 



Roderick Cameron. 



Niagara Falls, March lo/h, i8g8. 



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