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found to be effectual in killing the worms, and more conveniently 

 applied than hot water. The Quassia might give a slightly bitter taste 

 to the cabbage unless thoroughly washed before cooking, but it is 

 perfectly harmless to the human system. 



At page 5 of the same Eeport, he will find that the President of 

 the Entomological Society gives him the cheering information that the 

 little parasite, Pterornalus puparum, is on the increase here, hence 

 there is a good time coming, when the ravages of this pest to our 

 cabbages will be very much lessened. And this hope was previously 

 held out to us at page 40, of the entomological part of the Eeport for 

 1876. Some methods of lessening the numbers of this butterfly are 

 suggested at page 32 of the entomological part of the Eeport for 1875, 

 and a full description of the insect, with engravings of male and female 

 luittprflv, of the worm and of the chrvsalis, are also fjiven. 



A PLEA FOE FLOWEES. 



BY AN OLD DIGGER, HAMILTON, ONT. 



Among other useful magazines of the month, I wish to greet in 

 terms of welcome that particular one which the Directors of the Fruit 

 Growers' Association of Ontario have put forth, not unlike what Noah 

 did when he loosed the dove from the ark, to secure for the lovers of 

 fruits and flowers so desirable a medium for exchanging horticultural 

 thoughts and experiences. May the Canadian Horticulturist prove 

 a welcome visitor each month to those who seek the festive regions of 

 Pomona and Flora. I take its humble beginning as a pledge of future 

 greatness, and am convinced that the meinljcrs of the F. G. A. will 

 make it a credit to our Province by frequent contributions of useful 

 matter. 



Farmers' wives and daughters, among whom, I am happy to say, is 

 growing up a most worthy and refined taste for flowers and fruits, will 

 find it to their advantage to ask questions through this convenient 

 medium, as to the finest, best, and most suitable flowers with which to 

 deck their lawns and ornament the garden-plot attached to their rural 

 homes. What can add more to the channs of these quiet homes than 

 nicely kept borders of blooming flowers, unless indeed it be the ruddy 



