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Brugmansia Arborea, op Angle 

 Trumpet. 



Sir, — Of all the novelties in shrubbery, I 

 think there is nothing to compare with the 

 above-named one. 1 have one four years old 

 which is now about six feet high, planted in 

 a tub about fifteen inches deep, being a part 

 of an old barrel, which I filled with the very 

 best mould and some rotten stable manure, 

 as this shrub is a very hearty feeder, and also 

 needs plenty of water during summer or grow- 

 ing season. 



It is a rampant grower, sending forth very 

 strong stout branches ; upon the new wood 

 the flowers are produced, which are a wonder 

 and surprise to the amateur, and no one will 

 walk past this beautiful little shrub, loaded 

 with its gigantic flowers, without making 

 some peculiar remarks about it 



I have heard one observer exclaim, when 

 looking at my shrub when in full bloom, that 

 its beauty was really " supernatural." Last 

 year my shrub bore nearly a hundred flowers, 

 which are creamy white, about a foot long, 

 and about five or six inches wide. The fra- 

 grance is delicately sweet, and will perfume a 

 large back door yard for two or three weeks, 

 if weather is favorable and not too hot. 



My shrub had last year at one time opened 

 sixty-five of those large flowers at once. This 

 shrub is not hardy enough to allow the frost 

 to strike it, but it is no trouble to winter it 

 over in any room not below freezing point. 

 I never had good luck by trying to winter it 

 in the cellar ; the wood is too soft and fleshy ; 

 it most surely will rot like a pumpkin-vine. 



I have often wondered why the above- 

 named beautiful flowering shruh is so little 

 known. They are no more trouble to grow 

 than the Oleander, Fuchsia and Hydrangea. 

 I always cut back every spring, about two- 

 thirds of last year's growth ; this will insure 

 good, stout, thrifty shoots for a good crop of 

 flowers, and also keep the shrub from growing 

 tall and awkward to handle. 



The flowering season, if not allowed to 

 grow during winter season, is last of August 

 and September. They will also flower during 

 winter if kept in a warm room and clear of 

 insects, which are so destructive to house 

 plants. But if now and again a sprinkling of 

 persiatic, manufactured by Pickhardt Ren- 

 frew, Stouffville, Ont., is applied, it will soon 

 free the tree of the pest. 



D. B. Hoover, Almira, Onts 

 March 1st, 1899. 



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BOOKS. 



The Supervising Committee of the Experi- 

 ment Farm at Southern Pines, N. C, have 

 just issued a very valuable and important 

 work on " Plant Food." The book is well 

 printed and handsomely illustrated with 

 many fine pictures. It would pay farmers to 

 read this book, which, we understand, can be 

 obtained free by sending to the Director, 

 Experiment Farm, Southern Pines, N. C. 



Plant Food. — Its nature, composition, 

 most practical use. Prepared to aid Practical 

 Farms, Experimental Farms, Southern Pines. 

 W. C. 



Landscape Gardening as applied to Home 

 Decoration, by S T. Maynard, Professor of 

 Botany Mass. Agricultural Coll. Published 

 by J. Wiley & Sons, New York City. Price, 

 $1.50. 



A beautiful and valuable work, with num- 

 erous illustrations. It treats of the princi- 

 ples of landscape art as applied to location 

 and ornamentation, grading, lawn making, 

 arrangement and grouping, pruning and care 

 of shrubs, walks and drives, renovating old 

 homes, parks and school-yards, climbers, 

 herbaceous plants, etc. A book of 338 pages. 



SpraVing for Profit, a pamphlet of 72 

 pages, by fi. E. Weed. Published by Horti- 

 cultural Pub. Co., Griffin, Ga. Price, 20 cts. 



CATALOGUES. 



Spramotor. — 5th Annual Catalogue and 

 Treatise on diseases affecting fruit trees, 



vegetables, etc., and their remedies. The 

 enterprise of this firm is well shown by their 

 excellent and useful catalogue. Especial 

 attention is called to the mechanical emulsion 

 attachment, which may be added to any of 

 these spray pumps and by which kerosene or 

 crude petroleum may be combined with water 

 in any proportion required. 



Webster Bros., Hamilton, Canada, 1899. 

 Canadian plants for Canadian people. 74 

 pages. 



E. D. Smith, Helderleigh Fruit Farms and 

 Nurseries, Winona, Ontario. Descriptive 

 and illustrated catalogue, 132 pages. 



Barn Yard Manure, Bulletin 31, Central 

 Exper. Farm, by F. T. Shutt, Chemist. 



Results obtained in 1898 from trial plots 

 of grain, etc., by Dr. Saunders, Bulletin 32, 

 Central Exper. Farm, Ottawa. 



Freeman's Fertilizers. — The W. A. 

 Freeman Co., Hamilton, Ont. Contains 48 

 pages descriptive of the various fertilizers, 

 with testimonials. 



Hersee's Reliable Se eds. — Edwin Hersee, 

 Seed Merchant and Nurseryman, Woodstock, 

 Ont. 



Spray Pumps and Nozzles. — The Deming 

 Company, Salem, Ohio. 



Bruce's Catalogue of Seeds, 1899. — J. 

 A. Bruce, Hamilton, Ont. 



A. G. Hull & Son, St. Catharines, Ont- 

 19th Annual Catalogue Fruit and Ornamental 

 Trees, Shrubs, Rosea and Plants. 



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