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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



In the autumn, when severe frosts begin to appear, the bulbs should be taken 

 up, the stalks cut down to about an inch from the bulb, then after allowing 

 them to dry for a" few hours they can be stored in a box in the cellar, where 

 they will be free from frost until they are wanted for planting in the spring. 

 Small bulblets will be found adhering to the bottoms of the large bulbs ; if these 

 are saved, put into a paper bag and kept out of the ground for one whole season, 

 and then sown in good rich soil in the spring of the second year, they will grow, 

 increase in size, and the following year will produce flowers like those of the 

 parent bulb. It is also important to keep the bulbs away from mice for they 

 are very fond of them. 



Our climate is so much better suited to the cultivation of the Gladiolus than 

 that of Europe that there is great inducement for those who are fond of expe- 

 rimenting to raise new varieties from seed, all of which will be more or less 

 beautiful, and some of them possibly better than those for which our European 

 raisers are so fond of charging us five dollars a piece. It only requires two, or 

 at the most, three years to grow nice blooming bulbs from the seed, so that one 

 does not have to wait very long before reaping the reward of his labours. It is 

 something to have learned how to " labor and to wait." 



The colored illustration which has been kindly supplied at cost to our readei*s 

 by Mr. James Yick, of Rochester, N.Y., represents flowers selected from his 

 collection of named varieties on account of their fine form and contrast in color, 

 and yet he says they are not superior to scores of others. It is not necessary 

 that the planter confine himself to named varieties, many of the unnamed are 

 quite as pleasing and far less expensive, and those who wish a quantity of bloom 

 can obtain mixed sorts at little cost. 



A FEW HINTS ON GRAPE GROWING. 



Great attention is now being given 

 to the growing of grapes in this country. 

 It is not very long ago that we had only 

 two varieties of grapes in cultivation, 

 and neither of these were suited to the 

 cjimate of any large part of the Pro- 

 vince. The Catawba would ripen its 

 fruit only in the most favored spots, 

 such as the Lake Erie shore or some 

 specially warm and sheltered nook. The 

 Isabella, in favorable seasons, ripened 

 over a somewhat larger area, but that 

 was but a limited territory as compared 

 with the whole. The arrival of the 

 Clinton extended the limits of pos- 

 sible grape culture, but in our climate 



the heat did not continue long enough 

 or was not sufficiently intense to develop 

 its saccharine properties so as to make 

 it a popular table grape. But within 

 a short time the number of varieties 

 has been greatly multiplied, resulting 

 in the production of several possesing 

 great excellence, capable of enduring 

 our climate and of ripening their fruit 

 in almost every part of the land. 



Since the advent of these varieties 

 adapted to general cultivation, our 

 people have not been slow to appreciate 

 what a grand addition nice, rich, juicy, 

 sweet grapes are to our list of fruits ; 

 nor slow to find out how much sooner 



