THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



answering through the Horticulturist 

 you would much oblige, 



Yours truly, 



J. W. M. 



Reply. — This is a powerful manure, 

 equal to the best guano, and should be 

 applied with care. If your soil be light 

 or sandy, it would be advisable to com- 

 j »ost it with an equal bulk of dry clay, 



omminuting the clay, and mixing it 

 t horoughly with the pigeon dung ; and 

 apply this in the spring by spreading 

 it on the surface of the ground, at the 

 i-ate of five hundred pounds to the 

 acre, just before a rain. The object 



night by mixing it with dry clay in 

 an almost powdered state, and spread- 

 ing it on the ground just before a rain, 

 is to fix the ammonia contained in the 

 } igeon dung; hence, if your soil be a 

 clay, it will not be necessary to mix 

 the pigeon dung with clay, but it may 

 \)Q spread directly on the surface, at the 

 rate of three hundred pounds to the 

 acre. It is, however, desirable to apply 

 it during rainy weather, that the am- 

 monia may be carried into the soil, and 

 absorbed by the argillaceous earth. 



Can you inform me in next number 

 (»f Canafiian Horticulturist where I can 

 obtain seeds of the Catalpa speciosa. 

 RoBT. McTntosh. 



Newcastle, Dec. 12, 1885. 



Reply. — You can procure them from 

 Thomas Meehan, Germantown, Penn., 

 U.S.A. 



BINDING OF THE REPORTS. 



It is a pity the Reports of the Fruit 

 Growers' Association, and the Entomo- 



logical and Forestry Reports, could not 

 be bound together, and sent to the 

 members. They are all valuable, and 

 ought to be in the library of every 

 country gentleman, or indeed of every 

 man who takes any interest in rural 

 affairs, and the development of all the 

 rural industries of this country. If 

 the government is so parsimonious that 

 it cannot afford to bind this volume as 

 formerly, I for one would willingly pay 

 an increased annual subscription, in 

 order that I might get them bound. 

 I am, etc., 



Benj. S. Beley. 

 Ferncliffe, Rosseau, Muskoka. 



Reply. — It is just because our gov- 

 ernment is so poor that ministers feel 

 they are not warranted in the expendi- 

 ture necessary to bind these reports that 

 they are sent out in paper covers. They 

 have been earnestly requested by the 

 officers of the Association to have them 

 bound ; but they turn a deaf ear to all 

 their arguments and entreaties. Surely 

 if they are worth printing they should 

 be worth the binding. If all bound at 

 once, the cost would be very much less 

 than the cost of having them bound by 

 individuals, one at a time ; and so we 

 have to pay this extra expense because 

 the country is so poor. 



(1) Where can I get the Acacia 

 Thorn for })lanting a hedge? (2) Where 

 can I get dwarf pear and apple trees ? 

 and please name two good varieties of 

 each. (3) Please name three goo<l 

 kinds of standard pear trees. 



Brooklin. JOHN G. WaRREN. 



Reply. — (I) We presume that our 

 enquirer has the Honey Locust in mind, 

 which has been used to some extent as 



