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THE CANADIAN H0ETICULTURI8T. 



word for the name of a fruit, as with 

 the Baldwin Apple, the Bartlett Pear, 

 the Concord Grape, and other renowned 

 fruits which will be perpetually known 

 by appropriate and easily remembered 

 names. 



THE HICKORY AND BLACK WALNUT. 



Talk about timber devastation ! If 

 our readers want to see what it looks 

 like, let them follow us to any of the 

 mountain ranges of the great Alleghany 

 mountain system, wherever these ranges 

 are within reasonable distance from the 

 railroads, notably to the Blue Eidge, 

 which divides the Great valley from 

 Eastern Virginia. Here whole forests 

 of white oak are cut down, merely for 

 the sake of the bark, which is to be sold 

 to the tanneries ; and the noble hickory 

 and the majestic black walnut are fall- 

 ing under the stroke of the axe. The 

 oak timber is sometimes worked up in- 

 to railroad ties, more generally, how- 

 ever, left on the ground unused. Hick- 

 ory and Black walnut logs are shipped 

 to northern manufacturing towns. 



So the timber gradually grows less ; 

 the mountain slopes and even the very 

 ridges are getting denuded of their 

 original growth ; and after a while the 

 ornament of these forests, the hickory 

 and the walnut, once so numerous, will 

 be no more. They are getting scarce 

 already in the reigons intersected by 

 railroads. 



The present price of black walnut 

 lumber, even without the sure prospect 

 of rapid and material advance, is such 

 as to insure very large profits in the 

 cultivation of this tree for its timber. 



The same may be said of the hickory. 

 Whether the fruit may be of much 

 account or not, the timber alone will 

 pay large dividends. 



Why the American farmer, especially 

 in the South and West, with large 

 tracts of cheap land, does not take hold 

 of so good a chance, we are unable to 



understand, unless it is because he does 

 not look beyond the immediate future, 

 and rather take six per cent, interest 

 one year from date than six hundred 

 in ten years. 



The establishment of a black walnut 

 forest is an extremely simple thing. 

 The nuts are easily obtainable almost 

 anywhere in any quantities, and may 

 be planted like corn. Seedlings are for 

 sale by nurserymen at very reasonable 

 figures, and may be planted like any 

 ordinary orchard, only rather close, say 

 eight feet a part each way. In either 

 method you can accomplish your object, 

 without great trouble or expense. 

 Much cultivation is not needed. The 

 trees will soon take care of themselves, 

 and grow into money right along, big 

 money, too. Why not do it, you who- 

 can 1 — Orchard and Garden. 



BUHACH. 



We take the following extract on: 

 the manufacture and use of this insecti- 

 cide from the N'ew York Examiner^ 

 merely premising that the plant from 

 which it is made is a variety of Pyreth- 

 rum, the P. cinerariaefolium, : — 



Buhach powder is made by pulveriz- 

 ing the flower-heads of the plants. The 

 flowers, which look much like daisies, 

 are gathered before they are quite open, 

 and should be dried under cover, as the 

 heat of the sun seems to injure them. 

 So does the heat of stoves, or other 

 artificial heat. After drying, if only a. 

 small quantity is to be pulverized, the 

 flower heads can be put into a mortar, 

 and covered with a piece of leather, 

 through which the pestle can pass. 

 After pulverizing, the powder should be 

 sifted through a fine sieve, and then, if 

 not wanted for immediate use, put up 

 in an air-tight glass fruit jar. 



Buhach is usually used in the evening 

 or in the early morning, because the 

 dew on the leaves will make the powder 



