The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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In a future number I will give you a few notes on my visit to the towns of 

 Port Hope, Trenton, Belleville, Napanee and Lindsay, and my meeting with the 

 Horticultural Societies of those different points. In the meantime, as I 

 promised many of those I met, I will name a list of roses suitable for our own 

 climate for outdoor planting. For one dozen hybrid perpetuals, take two Gen. 

 Jacqueminot, one Fischer Holmes, one Charles Lefebvre, all dark ; for pink 

 or rose, take two Magna Charta, one Glory of Mosses, and one Gracilis Moss ; 

 for light, one Madam Plantier, two Merville de Lyon, and one Perpetual White 

 Moss, the latter only for its buds. These must be all cut back every spring to 

 twelve or eighteen inches according to the strength of the shoots. For monthly 

 bloomers to plant out in the open ground as early in the spring as possible, 

 take Pierie Guillot, Catharine Mermet, Camdens, Etoile de Lyon, Maria 

 Guillot, Sappho, Princess Logan, and Grace Darling. 



Mitchell. T. H Race. 



THE BUD MOTH.— (Tmetocera ocellana.) 



HIS insect is becoming a very serious pest in our Canadian orchards, 

 and are difficult to overcome. About the first of May the cater- 

 pillars begin eating into the buds. It also continues to eat the 

 leaves and flowers as they open, tying them together with silken 

 threads. At first the little caterpillar is only about the one-sixth 

 part of an inch in length, with black head and thorax ; but about a 

 month later they are about half an inch in length, and look brown 

 Fig. 952 shows one of these moths magni- 

 fied three diameters, after Slingerland, who also 

 describes and figures the moth itself as follows :— It 

 is about three-fifths of an inch across its expanded 

 wings. It is of a general dark ash-grey color, with a 



broad cream white band across the front wings. The 

 moth is a near relation of the Codlin Moth. It re- 

 ceived its name, Ocellana, in Austria, in 1776, from 

 somewhat eye like marks on each front wing ; hence 

 its common name, Eye-spotted Bud Moth. 



in color. 



Fig. 951. 



Fig. 952. 



The asparagus is a native of Europe, growing' in rich, sandy soil, in 

 meadows, and along the banks of rivers. It has been much improved by culti- 

 vation, and in its wild state grows only afcouta foot high, and as thick as a goose 

 quill. In its cultivated state it attains a height of three to four feet. The plant 

 when only a few days old is cut as it sprouts from the ground, tied in bunches 

 and brought to the market. It was a favorite vegetable of the ancient Romans. 

 The seeds have been used for cofTee, and are recommended for that purpose in 

 Europe at the present day. A kind of fermented spirit is made from the berries. 

 — Greengrocer. 



