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THE CANADIAN HOKTICULTURIST. 



CORNUS FLORIDA. 

 - I have always esteemed the flowering 

 Dogwood as one of the most beautiful 

 of our small, native trees, and never 

 let an opportunity pass without recom- 

 mending it for the lawn, where it is 

 not often seen, sijuply because it is a 

 native, and not because it is not beauti- 

 ful. I know of seA'oral specimens 

 that are worth widking miles to see. 

 The largest stands in the middle of a 

 10 acre lot, about two miles from the 

 village of Koslyn, L. I. It is altogether 

 tlie finest Dogwood I ever saw. The 

 tree is upward of 30 feet high, with a 

 round and perfectly symmetrical head 

 about 30 feet in diameter, supported by 

 a clean, straight trunk neai-ly six feet 

 high and some nine or ten inches in 

 diameter. It is as nearly perfect as a 

 tree can be, and a grand sight when in 

 flower. It was a sight of this tree many 

 yeai'S ago that gave me my first im- 

 pression of the great value of the Dog- 

 wood as a tree for the lawn. Another 

 very tine specimen stands by itself on 

 the beautiful lawn of Mrs. W. Barr, 

 at Orange, N. J. I saw it this Spring 

 just as it was coming into full bloom. 

 In sight at the same time wei'e Mag- 

 nolia stellata, M. Soiilangeana and M. 

 conspiciia ; and the nearness of the 

 latter naturally led to comparisons, very 

 much, to my mind, in favor of the Dog- 

 wood. Liking company when enjoying 

 a good thing, I asked Mrs. Barr and 

 others ,pi-esent to look at- the Magnolias 

 and the Dogwood and tfell me which 

 tliey thought the more beautiful. They 

 all agreed with me tliat the Dogwood 

 Avas more beautiful than the Magnolia. 

 The Dogwood has this also in its favour, 

 that it clothes itself in the most lovely 

 of autumn tints. It is also a very 

 clean and symmetrical tree. Therefore. 

 I say that the Dogwood is another 

 native tree that is worthy of a place 

 even on the smallest of lawns. Plant 

 it. To have it at its best, it should be 



at least 15 feet from any other tree or 

 shrub. Choose a small plant rather 

 than a lai'ge one. — Rural Ntto-Yorker. 



THE CABBAGE MAGGOT. 



For the past two weeks I have had 

 scores of letters complaining of the 

 ravages of the Cabbage 3Iaggot, which 

 is evidently more than usually destruc- 

 tive tliis year. In many ])laces in this 

 vicinity not a single head will mature. 

 To counteract its luvages in our sample 

 grounds, where we test all our varieties 

 of cabbage and cauliflowers, we had 

 until this season dressed the land heavih' 

 witli oyster shell lime, using at the rate 

 of 150 bushels to tlie acre, sown on the 

 land after plowing, and then well 

 hari'owed in. But this year the man 

 in charge of our trial grounds was 

 absent at the time the ground was being 

 ])repared for the cabbage and cauliflower, 

 and the dressing of lime was, for the 

 first time in five years, omitted. The 

 cabbage and cauliflower plants, which 

 were strong spring-sown transplanted 

 j)lants, weie set out about the middle 

 of April. They started well, but about 

 the middle of May the droop in the 

 leaf showed that the maggot was at 

 work. We at once scraped the soil 

 from the stem of each plant and dusted 

 lime around it, again drawing the soil 

 up to the stem. In addition to this a 

 goo:l handful of guano was dusted 

 around every five or six plants, or 

 about as thick on the surface of the 

 soil as sand is usually strewn on the 

 floor. 



The application of lime at once 

 arrested the work of the maggots on 

 the stems, and the guano started a 

 quick growth, causing each plant to 

 make strong roots above the wounds 

 made by the maggot.s^ The result is 

 that the crop to all appearances is saved. 

 We left a few rows without applying 

 the lime and guano, to test the result 

 of the experiment, and in these rows 



