THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fig. 1683. 



-Tobacco Plantation with Orchard iji Background, Central 

 Experimental Farm. 



destroyed all the flowers except the very 

 hardiest. Among these were the Mich- 

 aelmas daisies or Wild asters, and Bol- 

 tonia asteroides. Some of the improved 

 asters are beautiful flowers and, on ac- 

 count of their lateness in blooming, are 

 very desirable. 



Boltonia asteroids, a tall aster-like 

 plant, is a profuse bloomer and very 

 noticeable during the month of October* 

 when there are so few flowers. 



W. T. Macoun, 

 Horticulturist, Cent. Exp. Farm. 



NOVEMBER IN THE ORCHARD, 



THE rush of the fruit harvest is now 

 over, and the fruit grower can have 

 a few weeks to clear up many 

 duties necessarily postponed. 

 Where cover crops have been sown in 

 the orchard for winter protection, of 

 course fall plowing will not be in order, 

 but where root killing is not a danger, 

 nothing will so improve the texture of 

 the soil as turning it up to the action of 

 the winter's frost. This treatment will 



also be a better protection than leaving 

 the uncovered ground unplowed, for the 

 fine earth at the surface will itself be a 

 sort of mulch. Last winter immense 

 numbers of peach trees were either root 

 killed or so weakened at the root by the 

 continued cold of February, that they 

 have been slowly dying ever since, and 

 in most such cases we have noticed the 

 ground was naked or unplowed ; while 

 orchards which were protected by crim- 



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