440 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



To me my house is a decided success and worthy of a trial. So satisfac- 

 tory has been its workings that several are to be built by neighbors this season 

 on like principles. Flower lovers from all over our town have taken special 

 pains to carefully inspect it. 



All lovers of flowers, and gardeners who want a place to start early seeds 

 and plants, will find a house of the dimensions here given of great value, besides 

 enjoying the pleasure of the house and its management. I have sold enough 

 plants this spring to build two just like it, and the coming summer I expect to 

 largely increase present facilities. — Gardening. 



RELATIVE YIELD OF 15 SELECTED SORTS STRAW 



BERRIES, 



As determined at the Michigan Experiftient Station, 18^4. 



In the folowing diagram we have endeavored to show at a glance the rela- 

 tive productiveness of the varieties in the above table, selecting only those with 

 a yield in excess of ten quarts from the forty feet of row. 



Careless Planting.— Many a man who realizes the necessity of a skilled 

 gardener to plant his flower-border, feels that any laborer who can handle a 

 spade is competent to plant a tree. He keeps a gardener busy all the season 

 among his flower-beds, but never dreams that a tree demands a moment's atten- 

 tion after it is once set in the ground. Even farmers, who know the value of 

 care and cultivation for their crops in field and garden, will plant an orchard, 

 leave it for years without any care, and then wonder why their unhealthy trees 

 yield no crops of fruit. The fact is, that one tree well planted, either for orna- 

 ment or use, is better than a dozen carelessly placed in the ground. The time 

 and money spent in tree planting is worse than wasted unless the work is done 

 in the best maiiner Tfom the very beginning, and unless the care which follows 

 is intelligent, determined and unceasing.— Garden and Forest. 



