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to the best advantage, but it is a good 

 shrub in almost any position, and either 

 grouped with others or standing alone. 

 It is an erect, handsome grower. — 

 Vick^s Magazine for September. 



BOOKS, &c., RECEIVED. 



Transactions and reports of the Fruit 

 Growers' and International Show So- 

 ciety of Nova Scotia. Our brethren in 

 Nova Scotia are earnest workers and 

 intelligent students of economic pom- 

 ology, as this very interesting report 

 fully testifies. The paper on the ra- 

 tionale of manuring and pruning an 

 apple orchard, by Henry Youle Hind, 

 M.A., is one of the most suggestive 

 articles that has appeared in a long 

 time, and deserves the careful con- 

 sideration of every orchardist. Mr. 

 Kimball thinks that plum growing in 

 Nova Scotia is more remunerative than 

 orange growing in Florida. 



Adelaide Jubilee, International Ex- 

 hibition, South Australia, 1887, giving 

 the classification, system of awards, 

 regulations for exhibitors, &c. This 

 exhibition is held in commemoration of 

 the Semi-centennial of South Australia's 

 colonial existence. 



Report on Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experimental Farm Stations, with sug- 

 gestions relating to experimental agri- 

 culture in Canada, by Prof. William 

 Saunders, F.R.S.C. A most exhaustive 

 report of some eighty pages, containing 

 a brief account of the agricultural col- 

 leges and experimental stations of the 

 United States, of agricultural education 

 and experimental work in Canada, of 

 agricultural colleges, experimental sta- 

 tions and schools of horticulture and 

 forestry in England, France, Germany, 

 Belgium and other countries. It is to 

 be hoped that the suggestions made by 

 Prof. Saunders will receive the atten- 

 tion which their importance demands, 

 and not be allowed to lie unheeded. 



Fertilizers ; where the materials come 

 from, where to get them in the cheapest 

 form, and how to compound them, by 

 J. J. H. Gregory, A.M. This is one 

 of the best essays on the subject of 

 manure that has appeared for some time. 

 It treats of potash, wood ashes, coal 

 ashes, bones, superphosphate, &c. , mak- 

 ing our own fertilizers, where to obtain 

 fertilizing material at lowest cost, &c., 

 &c. Every farmer and horticulturist 

 would be greatly benefited by a care- 

 ful study of this pamplet of some 115 

 pages. We presume that copies can be 

 had by addressing Mr. Gregory at 

 Marblehead, Massachusetts, U. S. A. 

 We do not know the price. 



The Library Magazine, monthly part, 

 September, 1886, published by John 

 B. Alden, :593 Pearl street, New York, 

 is filled with selections from reviews' 

 and magazines of the ablest papers on 

 topics of interest. 



Report of the Montreal Horticultural 

 Society and Fruit Growers' Association 

 of the Province of Quebec, E. J. Max- 

 well, Secretary. The paper on Hardy 

 Fruits in Wurtemburg, by Chas. Gibb, 

 Abbotsford, P.Q., and the Resume of 

 Out-Door of Grape Culture in the 

 Province of Quebec, by Wm. Mead 

 Pattison, Clarenceville, P.Q., are ex- 

 ceedingly interesting. The paper by 

 Mr. Auguste Dufruis, of L'Islet, on 

 Plum Culture, together with that by 

 Chas. Gibb on Plums for Cold Climates, 

 give information of much value to resi- 

 dents in the colder parts of Ontario. 



Report of the Entomologist, James 

 Fletcher, F.R.S.C, 1885, is full of 

 valuable instruction with regard to our 

 noxious insects. But a broad-bladed 

 knife is too tedious an instrument 

 wherewith to combat the onion maggot 

 where they are grown by the acre, and 

 we trust that Mr. Fletcher will yet be 

 able to discover some more expeditious 

 method of combating this foe. 



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