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the free circulation of the air. If you 

 have no such plot at your disposal, but 

 are hedged in on every side, as very 

 many gardens are, by buildings, high 

 fences or orchards, and your calling is 

 such that you cannot find the necessary 

 time to hand pick the worms, sooner 

 than resort to such a dangerous remedy 

 as Paris Green, do not attempt to grow 

 cabbages, but buy them on the market 

 of parties you know are not obliged to 

 resort to its use in their cultivation, 

 and devote your time and ground to 

 the growing of other vegetables or 

 small fruits. 



1 have had occasion within the last 

 ten years to try many of the remedies 

 recommended for the destruction of the 

 cabbage worm, but the only one I ever 

 found effectual and at the same time 

 practical (aside from hand picking) was 

 to take water when about at the boil- 

 ing poin,t and pour it over the cabbages 

 with an ordinary sprinkling can. 



H. L. Janzen. 



Berlin, Ont. 



THE MOCCASIN FLOWER. 



With reference to some of our native 

 herbaceous |)lants and shrubs, alluded 

 to by Mr. Goldie in the January num- 

 ber, I would beg to state that the 

 Cypripedium spectabile, or as it is 

 called, the Moccasin Flower, one of 

 our most charming flowers, is difficult 

 to transplant into dry, exposed ground, 

 it being a swamp orchid. I tried it 

 twice, but failed in both cases, the first 

 sj)ecimen I bought, and the second I 

 discovered, and notwithstanding having 

 brought along a quantity of muck to 

 j»lant it in, I failed to get any satisfac- 

 tory results. The only way to treat it 

 successfully is to plant near the edge of 

 ;i [)ond, or creek which may be on or 

 running through pleasure grounds par- 

 tially shaded. 



The Lobelia cardinalis, or Cardinal 

 Flower, intense scarlet, is more easily 



handled. I found some fine specimens 

 of this plant growing in a dried up 

 black ash swail, and it will grow satis- 

 factorily when planted in a soil of a 

 similar character. 



The Hepaticas and Sanguinarias are 

 easily grown in any common garden 

 soil. S. R. 



Berlin. 



WATER LILIES, &c. 



Parties who have a small pond near 

 to their premises should not omit to 

 procure some w^ater lilies (although not 

 lilies really, still they are known best 

 under that name). They are easily 

 transplanted. I have seen them grow- 

 ing in abundance in the township of 

 North Dumfries, and a few of our 

 Ranunculus might be transplanted on 

 the edges. Our native lily will bear 

 transplanting very well. Some of our 

 native shrubs must not be forgotten, 

 such as the Comptonia asplenifolia 

 (sweet scented fern), for its fragrance, 

 and the Potentilla suffructicosa, for its 

 pretty yellow blossoms. Both are 

 easily removed. S. E.. 



Berlin. 



THE WEIGELA ROSEA. 



This charming shrub is grown here 

 without winter protection, at least on 

 my grounds, but in localities where it 

 is exposed and partially winter killed, 

 it would be as well to give it protection 

 during winter, either by covering with 

 evergreen boughs, or what is just as 

 good, a piece of packing sheet, or such 

 like, taking care to bend the canes 

 gently and fastening with hooked pegs. 



This shrub is a native of China, and 

 was introduced into Europe by Weigel, 

 a Russian botanist, hence its name. 

 There are many varieties now in culti- 

 vation evidently seedlings of the origi- 

 nal Rosea, all of which are no doubt 

 equally as hardy. The var. Variegata, 



