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their peculiar color all through the 

 season. It is a variety of the Royal 

 Oak of England. 



Also a variety of the Norway Maple 

 known as Sehwedler's, whose young 

 shoots are of a bright, almost crimson 

 color. The foliage becomes darker with 

 age, until in the autumn it assumes a 

 purplish green. 



But it was our intention to bring to 

 the notice of planters a tree of yet 

 more recent introduction, known as the 

 Purple-leaved Phim. Our colored plate 

 is a very good z-epresentation of its 

 foliage. We imported a few trees of it 

 a short time ago from Europe, and have 

 been much pleased with its behavior. 

 It has been perfectly at home in our 

 climate, and made a good healthy 

 growth. Although it has flowered 

 twice, no fruit was formed. We learn 

 from the Rural New-Yorker that it has 

 fruited in the grounds of P. J. Berck- 

 mans, of Georgia ; that the fruit is of 

 the myrobolan order, of the color of the 

 Acme tomato, firm in flesh, moderately 

 acid, but not of high flavor. In the 

 early spring the leaves are of a beauti- 

 ful rosy purple ; these change, as the 

 season advances, to a deep purple, and 

 afterward to a greenish purple, and 

 finally to a bronzy green; but the young 

 shoots during the season of growth ai'e 

 of the rosy purple of early spring, thus 

 giving to the tree a most pleasing 

 variety of coloring during all the sum- 

 mer months. 



Hakdy Lilies.— C. E. K., of Little 

 Rock, Arkansas, asks about Lilies suited 

 to the open garden, and as I have had 

 large experience with all the various spec- 

 ies of the Lily family, I answer, that L. 

 Thunbergianum, in its many varieties, 

 from chocolate to lemon in color, will be 

 found the hardiest and surest to bloom of 

 all Lilies, and they are very beautiful, too. 

 They are as hardy and as sure to bloom as 

 Tulips. — G. B. W. , in Vkk's Magazine. 



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PROSPECTUS FOR 1886. 



This magazine has been for the past 

 eight years, and is now, the only pub- 

 lication devoted to horticulture in Can- 

 ada, having special reference to the va- 

 rieties of fruits, flowers, trees, shrubs, 

 and vegetables, and modes of cultiva- 

 tion best suited to our climate. It is 

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 1886 more valuable, if possible, and 

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