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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUKI8T. 



fragrant Honeysuckle. Tecoma Jasmi- 

 noides will intermingle its lovely leaves 

 and flowers, shielding in winter the leaf- 

 less Wistaria and rejoicing in the spring 

 over its clusters of royal bloom. Rhus 

 Cotinus will produce its wreaths of deli- 

 cate fringe in the shadow of the Mag- 

 nolia and Pomegranate. Fuchsias will 

 lift their tall heads from circles of Gla- 

 diolus and Tuberoses, none feeling an 

 alien presence of a stinted growth. But 

 over all these will reign a crowned 

 queen — the Tea Rose, and royally she 

 tills the throne. No garden is complete 

 without a hundred varieties of Roses, 

 and with intelligent culture nothing 

 finer in results can be imagined, and all 

 the year aix)und. April and May are, 

 jxirhaps, the most royal months of 

 bloom, but no season is without Roses, 

 andamorninghour is required for taking 

 off the old Roses, making room for the 

 on-coming bud and bloom. A circle of 

 these around a Dicksonia antarctica in 

 carefully combined colors, with a border 

 of Diosma alba, is a thing of beauty. 

 You cannot cure the once possessor of 

 such a garden ; the gravitation toward 

 it is as certain as the laws of any other 

 gravitation. And the Eastern florist, 

 after a winter among such gardens, will 

 pack many a sigh and regret away in the 

 recessesof trunksand portmanteaus, and 

 with infinite disgust will tight Jack 

 Frost another winter, until discretion 

 becomes the better part of valor, and 

 sooner or later the dream of a sunny 

 home and a semi-tropical garden be- 

 comes a reality. A commingling of 

 fruits from all zones becomes also a 

 possibility. Citrus fruits grow side by 

 side witli the Apple and Pear, Figs 

 and Bananas with Plums and Peaches. 

 Perhaps nothing financially is of more 

 importance to this valley than the fol- 

 lowing list of fruits: Apricot, Prune, 

 English Walnut, Raisin Grape, Bartlett 

 Pears, Olives, Egg Plums and Necta- 

 rines. The Peach does well ordinarily, 



having off-years, and some varieties a 

 curled leaf. These fruits are mostly 

 purchased by the cannery in large quan- 

 tities, as also immense quantities of 

 Tomatoes. I have seen Tomato vines 

 seven years of age, but young plants 

 produce better. Eternal vigilance is 

 the price of orchards here, as to in- 

 sects, as elsewhere. But with it the 

 finest results are realized. Olive cul- 

 ture is becoming prominent, and in 

 another letter will be described. Lima 

 Beans have brought, with their present 

 high prices, a bonanza to farmers in this 

 valley, in many cases realizing from 

 $75 to $125 per acre, this season ; the 

 land is of course very rich and of many 

 descriptions. Fruits of the leading 

 varieties are proved, fi'om the cash- 

 books of producers, to vary from $200 

 to $500 per acre, and some instances of 

 Apricots run higher, at six and seven 

 yemrs of age. Most fruits, deciduous 

 ones, bear at three years from planting 

 in considerable quantities. 



As a home, with its thoroughly 

 equable climate, neither hot nor cold, 

 nothing can be more desirable than this 

 portion of Southern California. — Mrs. 

 N. W. Winter, in American Gardener, 



HARDY RASPBERRIES. 



The hardiness of Raspberries is a 

 somewhat mooted question, but so much 

 seems well established, that the amount 

 of cold which the canes can withstand 

 depends mainly upon the degree of ripe- 

 ness of the wood. While a fully ripen- 

 ed cajie may survive almost any possible 

 degree of cold, an immature one may be 

 killed by a few degrees below freezing 

 point. Many varieties which we are in 

 the habit of calling " perfectly hardy" 

 were killed last winter by the unusual 

 earliness — befoi-e the plants had rii>en- 

 ed their wood — not by the intensity of 

 cold. "Turner," " Brandy wine," and 

 even wild kinds, were killed down to 



