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THE CANADIAN HOKTICULTUKIST. 



It is the custom now-a-days for newspapers and horticultural 

 periodicals to make a present to each subscriber of some strawberry or 

 raspberry plant or some flowering plant in order to increase the 

 circulation of the paper. Now every subscriber to the Canadian 



Horticulturist may have one of 

 these new Hydrangeas who desires it, 

 and we venture to say that no paper 

 in America is offering to its subscrib- 

 ers a more valuable if as valuable an 

 article as is here offered to our sub- 

 scribers. 



Through the politeness of Mr. Jas> 

 Vick,. of Kochester, N.Y., — so distin- 

 guished for his zeal in disseminating 

 a taste for beautiful plants and flowers 

 — we are enabled to give our readers 

 an illustration showing the form and 

 appearance of one of the flower pani- 

 cles, though much reduced in size. 

 From this one can imagine the appear- 

 ance of a shrub of three or four years growth, bearing from twenty to 

 thirty of these panicles a foot in length. 



Besides this, there is offered to every one who will remit to the 

 Editor ten dollars with the names of ten subscribers, new or old, a 

 copy of the Horticulturist for 1881 free, and the choice of any one 

 of the following articles sent post paid to the person making the 

 remittance, and to each of the subscribers whose names are sent. The 

 following is the list of articles, any one of which that the subscriber 

 may designate will be sent : 1, The Senasqua Grape ; 2, two pounds 

 of the Dempsey Potato ; 3, Hydrangea Paninculata ; 4, a one year old 

 tree of the Wealthy Apple. 



THE WEALTHY APPLE. 



This variety, so valuable for planting in the coldest parts of the 

 country, originated in Minnesota from some seed of crab apples sent 

 to Peter M. Gideon from Bangoi', Maine, about the year 1861. Since 

 that time it has been extensively disseminated, and at the meeting of 



