THE OAKADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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fresh, and the expense and trouble of 

 putting them up is not great. More 

 money is usually spent for prunes and 

 other dried fruit during the winter in 

 families where fruit is not put up, than 

 it would cost to purchase jars and sugar 

 to i)repare a supply at home. The 

 women will take care of the fruit if 

 . they only have it to take care of, and 

 will be glad to have the chance to do 

 so. Should more fruit be produced 

 than the family can consume, it will 

 meet with a ready sale at the nearest 

 \ illage, and usually bring the grower 

 l)etter returns than if sent to the over- 

 stocked markets of a large city. Sell 

 none but the surplus. — Arnerican Ayri- 

 iltuf'ist. 



ADAM'S NEEDLE— (TMcm Jilamentosa). 

 Among tall growing perennial flowers 

 the yucca Jilamentosa is consjjicuous. 

 In rich soils the stocks stand six 

 or seven feet high, carrying hundreds 

 of cream-colored, drooping, lily-shaped 

 flowers. They are especially beautiful 

 in moonlight, when they appear snow 

 white and no imperfections can be seen. 

 A group of them standing before a 

 background of dark foliage is most 

 effective. — Philadelphia Press. 



FLOWERING DOGWOOD. 

 This small native tree (Cornus flor- 

 i^la), grows from twelve to thirty feet 

 high, and the flowers appearing in 

 spring before the leaves have expanded, 

 it becomes a conspicuous object in the 

 margins of woods where it grows, the 

 showy white flowers beini? often three 

 or three and a half inches in diameter. 

 What appears to be the petals are really 

 the corolla-like involucres, the flowei-s 

 themselves being in a sUiall head within. 

 They last long for spring blooming, 

 often more than two weeks, and later 

 in the sea.son the berries are an orna- 

 ' I lent. The foliage turns to a deep red 

 ill autumn. The flowering dogwood is 



valuable, as immediately following in 

 bloom that of the magnolias, and is 

 eminently worthy of a phice in orna- 

 mental grounds. — Country Gentleman. 



BOOKS, &c., RECEIVED. 



Prooeedings of the thirty-third annual 

 meeting of the Kentucky Horticultural 

 Society. A neat pamphlet of some 

 eighty pages, full of horticultural in- 

 formation of special value to residents 

 of that State, yet containing many sug- 

 gestions very worthy of the attention 

 of those who cultivate fruit in Ontario. 

 One of the papers, entitled "Some 

 things needful in Kentucky horticul- 

 ture," especially that part of it which 

 treats of '* a higher order of culture 

 among those who make it a business," 

 contains suggestions that might well 

 be put in practice by cultivators in any 

 latitude. 



Report of the North Carolina State 

 Horticultural Society, 1885. S. Otter 

 Wilson, Secretary, Vineyard, Wake 

 Co., N.C. 



Transactions of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society for the year 1885, 

 Part II. The report of the committee 

 on gardens is especially interesting. 



The Canadian Bee Journal is pub- 

 lished weekly by Jones, Macphei-son <fe 

 Co., Boeton, Ont., at one dollar a year. 

 It is now in its second volume, which 

 has been increased from sixteen to 

 twenty pages. Those who are interested 

 in bee-keeping in Ontario will find this 

 weekly a very helpful visitor. 



MiNNEWASKA BLACKBERRY. — This HOW 



blackberry, not yet disseminated, I be- 

 lieve, has again emerged from the winter 

 alive to the tips, hero in the Hudson River 

 Valley. This feature of hardiness has 

 long been the pressing need of blackberry 

 growers at the North. If with the except- 

 ional productiveness, good size and cpiality 

 so far evinced by the Minnewjiska it shall 

 continue to combine iron-clatl vigor, it will 

 be a valuable acquisition. — H. H. in 

 Rural New- Yorker. 



