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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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West Toronto Junction, said it was unnec 

 essary to go to great expense in buying 

 exotic shrubs for our school grounds when 

 we have so many desirable natives that will 

 bear transplanting and that will be equally 

 effective from a landscape gardener's point 

 of view. For example the following is 

 a list : 



Native Shrubs. 



Sweet Fern. 

 Dwarf Shadbush. 

 Chokeberry. 

 Native Apple. 

 Common Elder. 

 Red Osier. 

 Witch-Hazel. 

 American Holly. 

 Sassafras. 

 Silky Cornel. 

 Leatherwood. 

 Shepherdia. 

 Snowterry. 



Purple-flowered Raspberry. 

 Maple-leaved Viburnum. 

 Round-leaved Dogwood. 

 Ceanothus New Jersey Tea. 

 Common Meadow Sweet. 

 Scarlet-fruited Thorn. 

 Red-berried Elder. 

 Cockspur Thorn. 

 Mountain Apple. 

 Snowball Guelder Rose. 

 Shadbush juneberry. 

 Alternate-leaved Dogwood. 



Native Creepers. 





Virginia Creeper. 

 Honeysuckle. 

 Native Grape. 

 Ground-nut. 

 Smiiax. 



Bittersweet. 

 Virgin's-Bower. 

 Canadian Moonseed. 

 Wild Bean. 

 Cat-Brier. 



Fig. 2271. Cover Crop in Orchard. 



Cover Crops. — Prof. F. A. Waugh, of Bur- 

 lington, Vt. , sends us a note on this head as 

 follows : — Speaking of cover crops, one 

 must remember that they differ in value the 

 same as anything else. Here is a photo- 

 graph of an orchard, for instance, with a re- 

 markably heavy and luxuriant cover crop ; 

 and yet those apples have not borne any- 

 thing but lichens and yellow leaves for ten 

 years. This cover crop consists of ferns, 

 *' brakes," sedges and rank wild grasses, 

 and has not been turned under since the 

 trees were set, probably. This orchard, 

 cover crop and all presents as fine an exam- 

 ple of what not to do as one often sees. 



Native Trees for Scliool Grounds. — Mr. Gil- 

 christ also gave a list of native trees which 

 are desirable, and we publish them here be- 

 cause soon Arbor Day will return and the 

 boys and girls will want to know what they 

 are to do. What could be a better lesson 

 than to go to the woods and seek to identify 

 and bring back one of each of the following 

 list to plant on the school grounds ? 



Native Shrubs and Climbers. — In his ad- 

 dress at Brampton, Mr. A. Gilchrist, of 



Pin Oak. 



Swamp Hickory. 



American Aspen. 



Hornbeam 



White Birch. 



Swamp White Oak. 



Basswood. 



Beech. 



White Elm. 



Sugar Maple. 



Red Oak. 



Butternut. 



Mossy Cup White Oak. 



Black Ash. 



Buttonwood. 



Silver Maple. 



White Ash. 



Red Maple 



White Oak. 



Black Walnut. 



Slippery Elm. 



Tulip Tree. 



Chestnut, 



Shell Bark Hickory. 



Corky White Elm. 



Balsam Poplar (Balm of 



Gilead.) 

 Paper or Canoe Birch. 

 Chestnut Oak. 

 Pignut Hickory. 

 Mountain Maple. 

 White Pine. 

 White Spruce. 

 Balsam Fir. 

 Hemlock Spruce. 

 Black Spruce. 

 Red Pine. 

 Larch or Tamarac. 



