SUNSHINE OR SHADE FOR FLOWERS. 



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will do just as well at a south window, if we 

 keep it out of the sunshine, as it would in a 

 window at which no sunshine enters. It is 

 so with all plants not fond of sunshine. 

 All the shade they need is exclusion from it, 

 not, as so many suppose, a place in which 

 light is so toned down that dimness results. 

 A place may be shady in the sense that it is 

 without sunshine, and yet it may be very 

 light. And this is the kind of shade that 

 shade-loving plants require. 



If you are going to build a greenhouse on 

 a small scale, like a lean-to, by all means, 

 if possible, have the roof of it slope to the 

 south. If you cannot do this, have it slope 

 to the east. But never have the slope to 

 the west, or the north, for one will give 

 you so much sunshine that your plants will 

 be scorched by it, and the other will give 

 you none at all, in winter. If you can have 

 one with a root having two slopes — one to 



the east and one to the south — by all means 

 have it, as this will give you an ideal ex- 

 posure, as it combines the advantages of 

 early morning and mid-day sunshine, and 

 nearly all kinds of plants can be so arranged 

 that they will get just the amount of sun 

 they need. 



If you are going to build a greenhouse 

 with an even-span roof — that is, the roof 

 the same on both sides — let it run north 

 and south. Do not make the mistake of 

 having the building so high that the glass 

 of the roof is several feet above the plants 

 under it. The nearer you can get them to 

 the glass the better it will be for them. In 

 summer, the west side of an even-span roof 

 can be covered with thin cloth, or washed 

 with a mixture of lime, or something similar, 

 that will obstruct the free entrance of the 

 rays of the hot afternoon sun. 



Yucca. 



Sir, — Can you explain why it is that my Y. fila- 

 mentosa does not bloom ? 



Probably the plant are not yet old enough 

 to flower, or perhaps they require some fer- 

 tilizer to cause increased vigor and growth. 



Killing Poplars and Locusts. 



Sir,— I see in your last issue that H. J. G. asks 

 how to get rid of poplars and locusts without 

 cutting them down. I do not know how to get rid 

 of them withaut cutting them down, but I know 

 how I got rid of the suckers after the trees had been 

 cut down. My land was covered with suckers of 

 poplar and I got an inch bit and tore a hole eight 

 or nine inches deep in the stump and filled the hole 

 with coal oil. This was twelve years ago, I have 

 seen no suckers since. 



Ontarix L. J. Whitby. , 



Hardy Climber. 



Sir, — Can you recommend a suitable hardy 

 perennial or annual vine to climb over a Persian 

 Yellow rose tree, trumpet flower preferred. 



H S. K. 



I cannot recommend you to grow any per- 

 ennial vine over the rose tree mentioned, 

 more especially a plant of the trumpet vine 

 (Bignonia Radicans) as preferred by you, as 

 the latter is a strong grower, and would 

 probably kill out the rose tree in time. A 

 few plants of morning glory (Convolvulus), 

 or climbing nasturtiums, would be most suit- 

 able for the purpose, or a plant of Cobea 

 scandens might do if it is a very large bush.- 



O. A. College, Guelph. W. Hunt. 



