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taken and kept moist, not soaking- wet. In 

 the spring of 1899 the writer saw thousands 

 of plants of several genera of Ericaceae in 

 healthy growing condition propagated from 

 cuttings ; and hundreds of oaks being trans- 

 planted, and conifers, each with its large 

 ball of earth securely held in place by a 

 warp of coarse sacking large enough to hold 

 the ball securely in place and be brought up 

 and tied at the base of the trunk. 



The woods of Ontario can supply our 

 flower guardens with many handsome and 

 interesting flowering plants hitherto neg- 

 lected because we did not know how to 

 grow them. The round leaved wintergreen, 

 Pyrola rotundifolia, with nodding ver^' fra- 

 grant white flowers, grows in dry woods and 

 in swamps. The bog wintergreen, Pyrola 

 uligonosa, has purple flowers. The liver- 

 leaf wintergreen, Pyrola asarifolia, also 

 grows in bogs, swamps and wet woods, 

 flowers rose color. 



Labrador tea. Ledum, Greenlandicum, 

 grows in swamps, the white flowers abund- 

 and in terminal umbels. 



Sheep laurel, Kalmia angustifolia, is ex- 

 ceedingly showy when laden with its purple 

 or crimson fllowers. It is very abundant in 

 swamps and wet places in Muskoka and 

 Northern Ontario. 



Swamp laurel, Kalmia glauca, flowers 

 borne in simple umbels, light purple, is com- 

 mon in the swamps around Gravenhurst. 



Trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens, known 

 to many as the beautiful, sweet scented 

 Mayflower, delights in sandy soil and rocky 

 woods. A few years ago it was common in 

 the vicinity of Toronto, but is becoming 

 scarce. These members of the wintergreen 

 and heath families could be grown in the 

 flower garden by giving attention to their 

 requirements in the matter of soil and part- 

 ner. D. W. Beadle. 



307 Givens street, Toronto. 



SPRAYING OF CHERRY TREES. 



'HE Bulletin of the Hatch Experiment 

 Station, Massachusetts, for March, 

 1900, states that wormy " fruit has 

 grown less in amount each year since regu- 

 lar spraying has been practised, and the 

 crop has been one of considerable profit. 

 Careful experiments show that the Monilia 



which sometimes causes the fruit to rot on 

 the trees, or very soon after picking, can be 

 largely prevented by spraying- after every 

 rain with the copper sulphate solution, 3 

 ounces to 50 gallons of water." 



D. W. Beadle. 

 307 Givens street, Toronto. 



Pruxixg. — In the pruning of pyramidal 

 fruit trees of all sorts care should be taken 

 to encourage the formation of natural fruit 

 spurs in preference to artificial ones ; this 

 is the rock on which many a young gardener 

 and amateur has split by following the ortho- 

 dox system of summer-pinching, as it is 

 called. If a free growth is allowed during 

 the summer and the branches kept thin, ad- 

 mitting a free circulation of sun and air 

 among them, the wood will ripen properly, 



and at the base of every leaf a bud is formed 

 which will ultimately become a natural fruit 

 spur. In the case of some varieties, such 

 as the Jargonelle and Williams' Bon Chretien 

 Pears, it will be found that the terminal bud 

 of one year's growth will be a fruit or bloom 

 bud ; in such a case it will be advisable to 

 pinch it out, which will strengthen the side 

 buds, and in the following year they will be- 

 come natural fruit spurs. — Jcunial of Horti- 

 culture. 



