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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



looks. Its habit fits it admirably for 

 the formation of specimen plants, and 

 in autumn it is fairly refulgent with 

 glowing crimson. When it is remem- 

 bered that this shrub is of the easiest 

 cultivation, is it not strange that no 

 one plants it? Will the time ever 

 come when American planters will 

 break loose from traditions of Old 

 World gardens, and use the plants 

 adapted to the American climate and 

 American surroundings 1 — Philadelphia 

 Weekly Press. 



PLANTING BULBS FOR SUCCESSION 

 OF BLOOM. 



In planting my Dutch Bulbs I re- 

 peated a plan for successive cropping of 

 flowers in the spring, on two small beds 

 that in the past has usually pleased me 

 greatly. These beds are only two feet 

 across and lie conspicuously on each 

 side of the front walk near to the steps. 

 I set out Crocuses, Hyacinths and 

 Parrot Tulips all in the same beds. 



My way of planting was as follows : 

 First, I dug up the soil well, mixing in 

 some manure during the process, and 

 after shaping up the top ti-amped it 

 rather firmly. Then I dug out each 

 bed exactly five inches below the sur- 

 face. On this bottom fifteen bulbs each 

 of Single Hyacinths and Parrot Tulips 

 were set, and covered with a layer of 

 two inches of soil. This new surface 

 was for the Crocuses, and on it I placed 

 six dozen imported bulbs, dividing the 

 spaces between them uniformly. 



Early next Spring there will be sheets 

 of Oocus flowers over these beds. These 

 will soon be followed by Hyacinth, and 

 later yet will come along the Parrots. 



After the Tulips are done, the same 

 beds are planted with summer flowers, 

 thus securing to me an almost perpetual 

 period of bloom from March until Octo- 

 ber. — Popular Gardening. 



JAPAN ANEMONE. 



These plants are herbaceous peren- 

 nials, with numerous radical leaves, and 

 sending up leafy flowering stems a foot 

 to three feet in height; these flower 

 stems branch several times, each branch 

 having a leaf at its base, and terminated 

 by a flower. They are wonderfully 

 hardy plants standing unprotected in 

 the lowest temperature known in the 

 Northern States, or from twenty to 

 thirty degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. 

 To produce the finest effects in the gar- 

 den these plants should be set in masses, 

 the two colors near each other, supported 

 by a background of leafy shrubs. 



As cut flowers for vases they are valu- 

 able, and they also serve an excellent 

 purpose, when potted, in furnishing the 

 greenhouse with flowers in the autumn 

 months, when there are few other flow- 

 ers to enliven it. The plants are easily 

 increased by division of the roots. — 

 Vick^s Magazine. 



THE JEWELL STRAWBERRY. 



We have found this to possess more 

 points of merit than any other we have . 

 ever tested, if we may judge by the 

 experience of two seasons. The plants ] 

 are very vigorous and free from disease. i 

 The berries begin to ripen June 12. | 

 The average size is large from the 

 beginning until the end of the season- — 

 the form broadly conical, often flattened 

 or widened at the top. The largest 

 berries with us measured four inches 

 in circumference. The color is a bright 

 red, and the quality is very good, 

 though not best. They are firm enough 

 to ship to a distance. Its great claim 

 to superiority rests in the vigor of the 

 plants, the uniformly large size of the 

 berries, and its productiveness, in which 

 latter respect it is thought to stand 

 first among all known varieties of straw- 

 berries. — Rural New Yorker. 



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