THE CANADIAN HORTIOULTURIBT. 



99 



In growing from seed it is important 

 to procure the best American grown 

 seed. European seed often fails to 

 form good, solid bulbs. 1^'our pounds 

 of fresh seed will be enough for an 

 acre sown with the machine, and if 

 sown in the garden by hand an ounce 

 will be enough for four hundred feet 

 of drill. Sow the seed just as early 

 as it is possible to get the ground in 

 good condition ; the earliest sown yield 

 the heaviest crop. 



As soon as the plants can be seen, 

 the ground should be carefully hoed 

 between the rows, either with the 

 wheel hoe or by hand, and the weeds 

 thoroughly cleaned out. The hoeing 

 should be shallow, taking care not to 

 draw the earth up around the plants? 

 but to keep the ground level and clean^ 

 As soon as the Onions are an inch or 

 two high they should be thinned out 

 to two inches apart in the row. They 

 may be allowed to grow at this dis- 

 tance for a time, and the young Onions 

 used for the table or sold, gradually 

 thinning out to four inches apart. In 

 field culture, or where there is no mar- 

 ket for these very young Onions, they 

 may be at once thinned out to four 

 inches apart. 



Timely and thorough cultivation are 

 of great importance to the success of 

 this crop. If the weeds once get the 

 start they will materially injure the 

 i;rowth of the plants, if not entirely 

 ruin the crop ; hence, do not let the 

 weeds once get a start, but hoe even if 

 no weeds are visible. 



In wet seasons Onions sometimes 

 grow thick-necked. To remedy this, 



gently bend down the tops, late in 

 July, with the hoe handle, which 

 checks the growth of top and induces 

 the formation of better bulbs. 



MEALY BUG. 



Please tell me a cure for Mealy 

 Bugs which have got into my little 

 greenhouse and vinery, and seem hard 

 to conquer. A. D. Ferrier. 



Fergus, Ont. 



Eeply. — They are hard to conquer. 

 If you are troubled with them on plants 

 in pots, set the pots out of doors when 

 the weather is suitable, and then with 

 your force pump turn a strong stream 

 of water on the plants and wash them 

 off. Be thorough, and turn the stream 

 on while one remains. Repeat the 

 operation in about ten days and until 

 you conquer. The writer has been 

 successful by pursuing this plan vigor- 

 ously. But in your vinery you must 

 try another plan. Dissolve a pound of 

 potash in three gallons of water ; warm 

 it until it is of the temperature of 

 130°F., and wash your vines thoroughly 

 with the solution, and repeat the opera- 

 tion in a week or ten days. If you see 

 them making their appearance again, 

 and you should maintain a careful 

 lookout for them, repeat the washing. 

 If your grape vines are in a dormant 

 condition, you may make the solution 

 stronger by adding half a pound more 

 of potash. 



FRUIT IN BRAUEBRIDGE, MUSKOKA. 



The Canada Baldwin I got in 1884 

 did not take root. The Fay's Currant 

 in 1885 did well, and the flower seeds 

 gave us some most beautiful flowei*s. 



