THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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Is the low bank of a creek a good 

 place for cultivating the Lucretia Dew- 

 berry ] I have a creek running through 

 my garden and think if its banks were 

 covered with dewberries it might prove 

 more profitable than wild grass. The 

 wild dewbeiTies grow in our beaver 

 meadows. An answer in the Canadian 

 Horticulturist will oblige. 



F. W. COATE. 

 Cape Elizabeth, Muskoka. 



Reply. — The Lucretia, being com- 

 paratively a new variety of the dew- 

 berry, has not yet been grown in very 

 many localities, hence it is impossible 

 to speak from personal experience, or 

 from that of others. One would cer- 

 tainly conclude that it would thrive 

 where other varieties of the same 

 species grow naturally. Please to give 

 it a trial and report results for the 

 benefit of others. 



CHIONANTHUS. 



I have a fine lot of young seedling 

 Black Ash, about o feet high. Would I 

 succeed were I to graft the Chionan- 

 thus on a few, for it appears it is 

 hardier than at first supposed? I 

 thought Muskoka should try it. 



Medora, Muskoka. 



T. A. H. 



Reply. — You can graft it on the 

 White Ash with better hope of success. 



(1) Can the Catalpa be grafted? 

 If so, on what stock 1 My plant has 

 two side shoots, which I would like 

 to graft. I am going to try on sev- 

 *aal kinds of timber roots, and will 

 report if successful. (2) Please in- 

 orm me how to gi-ow the Mountain 

 Vsh from seed., viz., what process the 

 • ed has to go through. (3) The 

 English Buck Thorn seed. (4) The 

 Cedar Tree seed. (5) The Norway 



and the White Spruce seed. (6) The 

 Balsam Fir Tree seed. 

 Appin. John McIntyre. 



Reply. — It can be grafted on seed- 

 ling Catalpa stocks. (2) Wash the 

 pulp clean from the seed and sow in 

 sand. (3) Same as Mountain Ash, 

 (4) Sow in light sandy soil, and cover 

 lightly. (5) and (6) Sow in light 

 sandy soil, and screen from the sun. 



SEEDLING OKANGE TREE. 



Mr. Editor. — I have an Orange 

 Tree ; I planted the pips myself. The 

 tree now is eight years old ; a fine tree 

 it is, something over one inch thick in 

 the stem, and about three feet high, 

 and a fine bush at top. I have it in a 

 tub in the house ; in the summer I 

 stand it out doors, but it has never 

 bloomed yet. There are thorns upon 

 it over an inch long. Can you kindly 

 tell me the reason it has never blos- 

 somed. Is it because it needs grafting ] 

 I never noticed whether they grafted 

 their young Orange Trees south or not, 

 but it seems to me, if I remember 

 right, that the trees there would be in 

 full bearing at eight years old. Please 

 answer in your usual way, through 

 the Horticulturist, and oblige. 

 Yours respectfully, 



T. G. Gaston. 



16 Inchbury-st. South, Hamilton, Ont. 



Reply. — Yes, it needs grafting. 

 Seedling Orange Trees, grown as they 

 must be grown in our climate, are 

 very slow in coming into bearing. 



THE CLEMATIS. 



I find we have the Clematis nicely 

 classed in the report of 1883. Now, to 

 make it more complete, will you name 

 or give a list of those Clematis that are 

 sweet-scented, other than Flammula. 



Medora, Muskoka. T. A. H. 



