THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIS2, 



from new species. The effect of working 

 through the Hght section added most ma- 

 terially to the substance of the flower. My 

 highest satisfaction, however, is from a 

 series of new forms with large, round, cup- 

 shaped flowers, like the tulip or nymphea. 

 Many of these are self colors ranging from 

 pure white to lilac and pink, with interme- 

 diate shades of the most delicate shell pink 

 and flesh tints. 



Multiplicity of the floral pieces, as in 

 semi-doubles, is now quite frequent. Infu- 

 sions of such blood induces twinning from 



the seed so produced, a point that proved 

 most interesting to Professor Bateson, of 

 England, at the International Plan*- 

 Breeders' Conference, New York, 1902. 

 Valuable and interesting variations like the 

 above are among the side-lines of limitless 

 possibility yearly made apparent to the ar- 

 dent worker, and selections made by me 

 from over a half million of my new crea- 

 tions give promise of endless satisfaction, 

 as well as increased opportunities for greater 

 and more rapid progress in the future. 



BANANA GROWING AT THE GUELPH COLLEGE 



WM. HUNT, O. A. C. 



A FINE bunch of bananas has been 

 grown and matured in the green- 

 houses of the Ontario Agricultural College, 



Canadian Grown Bananas 



Guelph. The bunch weighed 60 pounds at 

 the time of cutting, January 11, and there 



were 180 bananas in all on it, or to use a 

 commercial phrase, 10 hands of fruit, 

 averaging 18 fingers or bananas to the 

 hand. In pomt of size it compared very 

 favorably with the large bunches seen in 

 fruit stores, grown in the West Indies or 

 tropical America, although it is not of the 

 same variety usually grown there commer- 

 cially. 



The variety grown at the college is Musa 

 Cavendishii, or Chinese banana, being a 

 native of the warmer parts of China, and is 

 better adapted for greenhouse culture than 

 the African or tree banana. The stem of 

 Musa Cavendishii, from the base to the 

 crown, where the bunch of fruit makes its 

 appearance, is seldom over five feet in 

 height. The bunch is produced from the 

 centre of the stem, at the base of the stalks 

 of its immense leaves. A small portion of 

 some of the leaves can be seen in the illus- 

 tration. Some of them were over three feet 

 in width at the broadest point and over five 

 feet in length, giving the tree a majestic 

 tropical appearance. The stem commenced 

 its growth in June, 1903, from the ground, 

 so that it has taken about 20 months to grow 

 and mature its fruit. After fruiting the 

 stem is cut down, as it commences to decay 

 at once, and a young tree or sucker is al- 



