THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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derstood, and that many of the readers 

 of the Canadian Hortieidturiat will 

 have the pleasure of growing plants 

 having heads of bloom two feet across, 

 and the individual flowers measuring 

 two inches and over in diameter. The 

 magnificent display will well reward 

 their care. 



QUESTION DRAWER. 



For how many years are young fruit 

 trees improved by being transplanted, 

 and how often ? 



Also, why are nectarines so difficult 

 to raise ? We never see any here. 



W. W. R. 



The improvement of young trees by 

 transplanting consists in causing them 

 thereby to throw out a large number 

 of roots within a given space, so that 

 when they attain to the size required 

 for orchard planting they may be so 

 well furnished with small fibrous feed- 

 ing roots that they will not feel the re- 

 moval from the nursery row to the 

 orchard. An apple tree is taken from 

 the seed bed when it is two years old, 

 the tap root cut ofi*, then grafted, and 

 planted in the nursery row. When it 

 has grown two years in the nursery row, 

 it would greatly increase the number of 

 small roots near the trunk if it were 

 again taken up, the large roots shorten- 

 ed, and planted once more in nursery 

 row and allowed to remain two years 

 longer before being planted in the or- 

 chard. There is nothing to be gained 

 by again transplanting the tree. Ever- 

 green trees are benefited by being trans- 

 planted a greater number of times, be- 

 cause their comparative slower growth 

 gives better opportunity, and their 

 leaves being not deciduous there is the 

 greater necessity. 



There is no greater difficulty in grow- 

 ing nectaiinea than plums, save that 



the tree is no more hardy than a peach 

 tree, hence requires a mild climate. 



MULBERRIES. 



Will you be kind enough to give 

 me all the information you can about 

 the mulberry tree, as to its hardiness 

 (1), productiveness (2), and quality of 

 fruit (3) 1 Jesse Weldon. 



Oakwood. 



1. The Black or English Mulberry 

 is not perfectly hardy in all parts of 

 Ontario It will do best where the 

 Peach is successfully cultivated. The 

 new American Mulberry promises to 

 be much more hardy. The Russian 

 Mulberry should be hardy as far north 

 as Sault Ste. Marie. 



2. All varieties are exceedingly pro- 

 ductive. 



3. There is some dijGference in the 

 flavor of the different sorts; but the 

 three sorts named above are highly 

 esteemed for fine quality. 



SAUNDERS' RASPBERRY. 



I beg to report my success with the 

 Saunders Raspberry, received in the 

 spring of 1880. It threw out four or 

 five long, spindling shoots, four or five 

 feet long, that I laid in a circle around 

 the plant. One or two took root from 

 the tip. However, I let them lay, and 

 last spring it leafed out and blossomed 

 finely and fruit set. I protected them 

 from birds as much as possible. Fruit 

 large and ripe. First picking, one 

 quart of fine berries ; picked twice 

 more, in all about two quarts. I think 

 very highly of the berry on account of 

 its fine size and immense crop. I am 

 propagating all I can, and intend to 

 plant freely, as 1 think it will be one 

 of our best paying berries. Soil, high 

 dry sand. C, H. Bigoar. 



Drummondville. 



