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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTVRISr. 



Fig. 1782. Lodge and Elm Avenue, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 



CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM NOTES— No. 6. 



fHE weather has been very chang-eable 

 this winter, so chang-eable in fact 

 that there have been few instances 

 where two days of the same kind of weather 

 followed one another. At no time was there 

 much over a foot of snow on the ground un- 

 til quite recently. About the third week of 

 January there was a thaw with heavy rains, 

 at which time nearly all the snow disap- 

 peared, just enougfh remaining to make bad 

 sleig'hing. The lowest temperature of the 

 winter occurred on the 2nd February, when 

 the thermometer reg-istered 21.5° below zero. 

 There was very heavy rain during- the second 

 week of February, followed by frost, and 

 from the 16th to the 22nd February there 

 was ice everywhere. Snow on Februar)' 

 22nd and 24th, was followed on the 25th, 



26th and 27th, by very cold weather with 

 high winds, the temperature on the 26th 

 being 19' below zero, and on the 27th 18° 

 below. Up to the ist March there had 

 been comparatively little snow at one time 

 during the winter, but on that day and the 

 next there was a downfall of 18 inches, fol- 

 lowed on the 6th by six inches more. 



NUT GROWING FOR PROFIT. 



As a correspondent desires to get some 

 information regarding nuts which were hardy 

 in the colder parts of the province, the ex- 

 perience gained in g-rowing- nut trees at the 

 Experimental Farm is g-iven this month. It 

 is not likely that nut culture will ever prove 

 a profitable industry in Ontario, unless some 

 of our native nuts are improved by cross- 

 breeding or selection, so that they will com- 



