134 ' The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Mr. Nicol has well stated the merits of arbor vit?e and other hedge plants. 

 A compact arbor vit^ is for this purpose an improvement ui)on the common 

 cedar. A nice hedge may be made with Norway Spruce, but we rarely see one. 

 Norway spruces are largely used hereabouts as windbreaks. These in fifteen 

 years reach a height of from twenty to thirty feet. 



Niagara Falls Soid/i, Out. F. Mordkx. 



KEROSENE EMULSION. 



This emulsion consists simply of a mixture of soaps-suds with twice the 

 quantity of ordinary coal oil, made as follows : 



Kerosene (coal oil) 2 quarts, 



Rain water i quart, 



Soap 2 oz. 



Boil the soap in the water till all is dissolved ; then, while boiling hot, turn 

 into the kerosene, and churn it constantly and forcibly with a syringe or force 

 pump for five minutes, when it will be of a smooth, creamy nature. If the 

 emulsion be perfect it will adhere to the surface of glass without oilness. As it 

 cools it thickens into a jelly-like mass. This gives the .stock emulsion, which 

 must be diluted before using with nine times its measure, that is 27 quarts, of 

 water. It will be found to mix much more easily if done at once, before it cools. 

 The above proportions give three quarts of the stock emulsion which with 27 

 quarts of water added, make up 30 quarts of the mixture ready for use. — Report 

 by Prof. James Flp:tcher. 



Constant Cultivation. — I noticed particularly in the peach orchards the 

 present season that where the most thorough and liberal culture had been given, 

 the trees suffered least from drought, and the fruit was of larger size and better 

 quality than in the orchards where it was not possible to keep up the culture, 

 after the growing fruit had so weighed the limbs that it was impossible to work 

 among the trees. In the cultivated lands, the fruit kept on growing all through 

 the season, but in the uncultivated orchards it was at a standstill for six weeks, 

 until the rains came, and this simply taught us another lesson on culture. — J. H. 

 Hale, in Strawberry Culturist. 



Fruit Growin(; Conokniai, to somi-:. — After forty years experience in 

 business, I have no hesitation in saying that if I were commencing life, I would 

 prefer fruit growing, after acquiring a scientific knowledge of the business, to any 

 industry in the country — for health, wealth, and all that niakt^s a success of 

 human life.— J. VV. Bicelow, Wolfville, N. S. 



