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THE CANAOIAN H0RTICULTUKI8T. 



Transactions of the Maine State Pomological 

 Society, B. L. Boardman, Secretary. — 

 This report contains a series of essays 

 contributed by able horticulturists and 

 florists on quite a variety of subjects, 

 including the following : — " Making 

 Coleus Beds," ''Small Fruits in Maine," 

 " Trapping the Codlin Moth," "Picking 

 and Shipping Apples." The report of 

 discussions at the meetings forms but a 

 small part of the book. 



Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society for the year 1886, Part I., 

 . Robert Manning Secretary. — This con- 

 tains essays and addresses of a very high 

 order of merit. Among other subjects 

 we notice : '* A Trip to the Tropics," 

 *' Promising Fruits," " Forestry," '* Glad- 

 ioli," "Plants for Out-door Culture," 

 "Vegetable Growing," "Orchid Cul- 

 ture," "Homestead Landscapes," "Em- 

 bellishment of Cemeteries," and "Ripen- 

 ing and Preservation of Fruit." 



MAGAZINES AND PAMPHLETS. 



L'Agriculteur Canadien is a new monthly 

 illustrated journal, published by H. A. 

 Chaput, 1,623 Rue Notre Dame, Mont- 

 real, at $1 per annum. It is written 

 in French, and is devoted to the interests 

 of farmers and fruit growers. 



The Southern Cultivator and Dixie Farmer, 

 published at Atlanta, Georgia, comes 

 out in an improved dress and contains 

 an immense amount of reading matter 

 just suited to Southern farmers and 

 fruit growers, and well worth the $1.50 

 subscription price. 



The Sugar Beet is published at Philadel- 

 phia, and devoted to the cultivation of 

 that vegetable and the process of manu- 

 facturing beet root sugar. 



Home Life is a new illustrated monthly 

 magazine, published in New York City. 

 The first number is certainly got up in 

 excellent taste and finely illustrated. 



Popular Gardening, advertised in this 

 Number, is certainly a very interesting 

 journal for gardeners. It now incorpor- 

 ates in itself The Floral World (Chi- 

 cago), Purdy's Fruit Recorder (Roches- 

 ter), The Garden Review (Windsor, 

 N. Y.) 



CATALOGUES. 



Winona Nursery, Smith & Vanduzer, 

 Winona, Ont., Price List of fruit trees, 

 grape vines and small fruits. 



Lovett's Guide to Fruit Culture, Spring, 

 1886, is got up tastefully and finely 

 illustrated. It is a pamphlet that is 

 interesting and valuable aside from its 

 business relationship. 



Lovett's Illustrated Catalogue of Trees and 

 Plants, Autumn, 1886, issued by J. T. 

 Lovett, Little Silver, N. J. 



^BZB oi Jfruite 



Feeding Apples to Cows. — Owing to the 

 tendency of cows to over-eat when they 

 can get food which they like, and to 

 which they are unaccustomed, the 

 Live Stock Journal thinks that prob- 

 ably there is nothing more danger- 

 ous for them to help themselves to than 

 apples, yet they readily become accus- 

 tomed to them, so that they can be as 

 safely trusted in an orchard as a sheep or 

 horse. They should be fed moderately 

 at first, and the quantity be gradually 

 increased till, at length, they learn to 

 measure the quantity their stomachs 

 can manage. 



