December, 191 1 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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A Ship of Apples that was Highly Praised at the Recent Ontario Horticultural Exhibition 



One of the features at the recent Ontario Horticultural Exhibition held in Toronto was the ship of apples and a display of boxed fruit, only a 

 small part of which is here shown, that wa« made by the united counties of Northumberland and Durham. Notice how apples are arranged m 

 the foreground to represent waves. Exhibits of this nature tend to greatly Increase the value of the fruit lands in the^ Munties that are enter- 

 prising enough to make them. This ship was about twenty feet long 

 boxee of apples were shown on each side. 



Fifteen barrels of apples' were required for this exhibit. About six hundred 



Garden Grown Decorations 



Mrs. Annie L. Jack, Chateauguay Basin, Que. 



A holiday appearance is given to a 



dining and living room in winter if the 

 decorations for that season are leaf and 

 fruit that have the association of being 

 grown in garden or woodland. The 

 ".\merican Holly," as the "Mahonia 

 .\quifolia," is often called, is a member 

 of the Barberry family, but its shining 

 green leaves have the same prickly 

 points and appearance as the Engli.sh 

 holly so prized at that season by tradi- 

 tion. 



The mahonia is a handsome summer 

 shrub if well established. The flowers 

 are yellow, resembling the barberry, but 

 there the likeness ends, for the fruit is a 

 blue berry tihe size of a large pea, and 

 for this reason the plant is sometimes 

 railed "Oregon grape." Sprays laid 

 against a wall are effective, mingled here 

 and there with red barberries or "Phy- 

 salis Francheti," called "Chinese lan- 

 tern" plant. This is an easily grown 

 perennial that was taktn to England 

 frf)m Japan by James Vcitch, and culti- 

 vated by M. Franchet in the Jardin des 

 Plantes. 



The fruits somewthat resemble a husk 

 tomato and are a brilliant orange red. 

 They will last for years as a decoration 

 if put away carefully from the light, and 

 look well mingled with sprays of hem- 

 lock or pine. 



The flower is rather insignificant and 

 the plant of straggling growth, but well 

 worth cultivating for its fruits, for color 

 is needed among the greenery, and the 

 real always prove more attractive than 

 the artificial. The "Lanterns" turn red in 

 -September and can be picked with long 

 stems, and dried in a warm airy place, 

 ready for use. On a bracket, under a 

 picture or in the centre of a mantel a 

 Doinsettia can be placed, its terminal 

 bracts of fiery scarlet leaves being very 

 effective. 



It can be grown during the summer in 

 the garden in pots sunk in the ground, 

 but does not endure frost, being a native 

 of Mexico, in fact it was named after 

 Joel R. Poinsette, the American minister 

 to that country, who first discovered it. 



Fortunate are they who have been 

 forehanded enough to gather in the woods 

 some ground pine and hemlock, for it 

 makes decoration easy. The crimson and 

 yellow and variously tinted leaves of the 

 maples are utilized by one decorator, 

 who presses and varnishes them, and 

 forms them into some simple design. 



.\ pretty decorative plant is "Ardisia 

 crenulata," with its glossy green leaves 

 and vermilion berries that are .so accom- 

 modating as to remain all winter on the 

 plant. 



By preparing through the summer 



these decorative plants can be made to 

 do their share towards bringing the gar- 

 den to the living room and so, "Make 

 things pleasant in one little place." 



The Care of Tulips 



Wra. Hunt, O.A.C., Guelph, Ont. 



Can you use the same tulip bulbs for sev- 

 eral yeans? Is it best to raise them every 

 spring? Can you have the ground too rich? 

 — M. L. P., Mono Mills, Ont. 



Tulip bulbs can be used for successive 

 years if treated properly. It is not nec- 

 ary to lift or disturb the bulbs for sev- 

 eral vears unless the ground has to be 

 dug and cultivated, to plant in other 

 kinds of plants for summer decoration. 

 Where tulip beds are planted in a mixed 

 or perennial flower border or among 

 shrubs, it is not advisable to disturb 

 them until the bulbs have become too 

 crowded. This condition is shown when 

 the bulbs begin to produce an inferior 

 type of flower. 



About once in every six or seven years 

 is often enough to lift and divide tulips 

 when planted permanently among other 

 plants or flowers such as I have men- 

 tioned. I have known tulips and nar- 

 r;issi to flower every year for twenty-five 

 years without being disturbed. The best 

 time to lift, divide and transplant these 

 is towards the end of July or early in 

 August before the bulbs start to take 

 root. Bulbs should never be disturbed 

 after they have started to root and grow, 

 until after the flowering period. 



