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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



THE SCENT OF A FLOWER. 

 Jane C. Simpson, in the Quiver. 

 The scent of a flower is a wonderful thing ! 

 It plays round the heart like the zephyrs of spring ; 

 So subtle, so soft, so resistless its power. 

 No monarchy rules like the scent of a flower. 



Some odors so blend with past happier years 

 They move us like melodies breathing thro' tears ; 

 For they bring back the faces and forms that arc cold, 

 And walks in the woods 'mid sunsets of gold. 



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 '• Consider the lilies." Lord grant us to be 

 By the lield and tlie gardeu brought nearer to Thee ; 

 To read m sweet blossoms Thy goodness and power, 

 And an infinite love in the scent of a flower. 



Experience with Huckleberries in 

 Connecticut. — About three years ago I 

 transplanted eiglit huckleberry plants, 

 which had attracted attention on account 

 of their size of fruit, and they were given 

 a home corresponding as near as possible 

 with the old. They began to die, however, 

 one after another, until the last one per- 

 ished last fall. In my opinion there is but 

 one way to conquer this fruit, which is by 

 raising seedlings from those that have 

 taken most kindly to cultivation. — S. T. 

 Bradley, in Orchard and Garden. 



Low Rrspberry Bushks. — Mr. W. R. 



Sprague gives the readers of the Ohio 

 Farmer some good advice as to the proper 

 length of berry canes : "I have too often 

 neglected," he says, *' to stop the growth 

 of raspberry canes at the proper height. 

 The canes almost always require cutting 

 off when other work is pressing. This year 

 I have cut the growth when from a foot to 

 two feet. It was necessary to go over the 

 plantation of two .and a half acres twice, 

 from the fact that a portion of the new 

 growth is backward. I have found that 

 with mo a low bush will give more satis- 

 factory results than a high bush. 



Another New Strawberry. — I believe 

 the coming berry has come, and far ex- 

 ceeds the ex|)ectation of the most sanguine, 

 and those berries that have held the first 

 place so long will gracefully step down and 

 out, to make way for so worthy a success- 

 or. The Jessie — named for one of Mr. 



Loudon's daughters — is of a deep, rich 

 color, attractive in form, a Jumbo in size, 

 (we picked specimens which measured 9^ 

 inches in circumference). In flavour it is 

 a delicious pine apple ; it is firm without 

 being hard, thus rendering it a desireable 

 berry for shipment or for the table. 

 Specimens before me compare with our 

 Cresents as our Cresents compare with the 

 wild berries. We have had many new 

 varieties of berries, which promised well, 

 but did not prove satisfactory when tried 

 away from localities where they were 

 originated, but the Jessie promises to 

 thrive and flourish everywhere, Mr Lou- 

 don having given it thorough tests in a 

 great variety of soils. — Y. H. C. in St. 

 Paul Farmer. 



Management op Early Fruits. — Early 

 apples and pears will now be ripening and 

 should be gathered for home use or for 

 market. In the eastern States, in local- 

 ities near a market, early apples pay bet- 

 ter than late varieties, as the grower has 

 Mot to compete with the Western fruit 

 growers. These are only profitable when 

 they can be sent to a near market, while 

 the late fruit can be transported a long 

 distance without injury. Early apples, 

 of showy kinds, should be carefully se- 

 lected, and sent to market in neat packages ; 

 half barrels, lined with white paper, are 

 the most attractive package, though, on 

 account of their cheapness, bushel and half 

 bushel crates are used by many. The 

 fruit should be matured — i. e. , full-grown 

 when gathered, but should not have had 

 time to mellow. When an apple or pear 

 is mature, it readily parts from the tree ; 

 when lifted to a horizontal position the 

 stem of tlie fruit will break away from the 

 twig to wliich it is attached, leaving a clean, 

 well defined scar. With fruit, maturity is 

 a distinct stage, and ripeness, or mellow- 

 ness another. Early fruit generally, if 

 picked when mature, will be ripe and 

 mellow by the time it reaches the con- 

 sumer. Fruit picked thus, and ripened 

 off of the tree, is vastly better in flavour, 

 juiciness and texture than if allowed to 

 remain on the tree until ''dead ripe" — 

 American Agriculturist. 



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