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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



ous, often stalks one and a half to two feet 

 in length and two inches in diameter will be 

 produced with little or no expansion of the 

 leaf blade at the top. When grown thus in 

 the dark none of the chlorophyl or green 

 coloring matter of the leaf develops, and the 

 stalks are bleached to a pinky white. When 

 cooked and made into sauce or pies they turn 

 a beautiful pink color, and are much finer in 

 appearance and flavor than stalks which are 



grown in the ordinary way in the garden. 

 Cropping may begin as soon as the stalks 

 are well developed, and may be continued 

 for several weeks until the roots have ex- 

 hausted themsedves, after which they should 

 be thrown out, as they are of little use for 

 growing again. 



We would suggest that our readers try 

 growing two or three roots this winter, and 

 let us know the results next spring. 



JOHN EVELYN 



PATRON OF HORTICULTURE, PHILOSOPHER, PATRIOT. 



C^ ARDENING and nature study seem 

 -»■ always to have been the delight of 

 ■^ the most refined minds, and 

 among these we find John Evelyn, of Woo- 

 ton, Surrey, England. Born in 1620, he 

 lived in a remarkable age, the times between 

 Queen Elizabeth and Queen Anne. He was 

 a " student of trees and plants and living 

 things, cherishing beside these the history 

 of the ancients, and a critical appreciation 

 ot music and its masters." As is evident 

 from his famous diary, he was a scholar, a 

 worker and a gentleman. 



Shortly before Evelyn's day, says the 

 Journal of Horticulture, there had existed a 

 great taste for gardening among the gen- 

 try, and it was the practice to strew the floors 

 with sweet smelling herbs and to have fra- 

 grant flowers in the bedchambers. New 

 flowers and fruit trees were imported from 

 the Continent; gardens were carefully laid 

 out " with quaint conceits of mazes and 

 strangely cut Yew hedges." Deer parks 

 abounded, and hunting and hawking were 

 the favorite amusements of country life. 

 Gerarde, we know, had despatched plant col- 

 lectors to the Levant in 1590, and others fol- 

 lowed his example. Rut the period of the 



Fig. 2701. John Evklyn, (1620-1706). 



Civil War greatly destroyed the propensi- 

 ties of the Elizabethan reign, nor were they 

 revived till the Restoration of King Charles 

 H. to his throne. John Evelyn, the boy, 

 was sent to his grandfather's home at Lewfes 



