The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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A GOOD FARM GATE. 



We. give an illustration of a strong 

 built farm gate. The usual trouble with 

 farm gates, especially with heavy ones, 

 is that the posts upon which they are 

 hung are too small and cannot be made 

 to stand firm. Where a gate is hung in 

 a frame such as is shown in the illustra- 

 tion, there is little chance for the posts 

 to become inclined and allow the gate 

 to " sag." If made of good material, 

 and well painted, such a gate will last a 

 long time. The frame can be orna- 

 mental. — American Agriculturist. 



Fig. 667. 



Flowers in the House.— Never be without them. We believe there is 

 more real pleasure in a bunch of common flowers cut from our own garden or 

 sent in by our friends or neighbors, or gathered in the field or wood, or by the 

 roadside, by our own children, than in the costly bloom from the florists' stores . 

 the one is the blossom of love, the other is more the word of fashion. Always 

 have a few flowers on the parlor table, and never be without them on your 

 dining-room table. Avoid big garish bunches and don't jam them tightly into 

 the dishes or vases so as to get quantity or variety into a small space ; arrange 

 them loosely, givinej every flower and leaf room enough to show itself to good 

 advantage, and, if you can avoid it, don't jumble up many sorts of flowers into 

 a dish together, better have only one kind or a few kinds, but you can have 

 different colors or forms of the same flower together, say a bunch of mixed 

 columbines, or irises, or pansies, or sweet peas. And although the bare blos- 

 soms are pretty enough by themselves, a good sprinkling of foliage improves 

 them greatly, and if possible their own foliage. — Gardening. 



Black CuPPant Bushes are badly infested in some sections by the black 

 currant mite. Its presence is detected by the distortion of the buds, the buds 

 becoming swollen and filled by the whitish mites and unable to throw out fruit 

 and but seldom leaves. The round eggs are found early in the season in the 

 buds, and frost has no effect on the mites. When buying black currants, 

 examine carefully for this pest ; the unnaturally swollen buds show their presence. 

 By no means take cuttings from infested bushes. Abnormally swollen buds 

 should be picked off and burned. Infested bushes should be pruned severely 

 and prunings burned. Cut in the autumn and spray with a solution of i oz. 

 Paris green to 10 or 12 gals, of water, with 2 oz. of fine wheat flour added to 2 

 oz. of soft soap, that the solution may stick to the bushes, 



