14 THE CANADIAN IIOIITICULTURIST. 



SEEDLING PEACHES. 



The past season has been very prolific in seedling peaches. The 

 preceding winter was mild, hence every peach tree that was large 

 enough to bear fruit was loaded to breaking. Samples of new sorts 

 were received by the Editor from almost every part of the Province, 

 many of which were very fine indeed. Some of those which came 

 from Collingwood were of such fine size, and possessed so many points 

 of excellence, that we are led to speak of these seedlings, for the 

 purpose of calling attention to the importance of raising up a race of 

 more hardy and healthy varieties, which, originating in our climate, 

 shall be better adapted for general cultivation in Ontario than those 

 which are no^v in cultivation. It has been demonstrated that if 

 you can secure seed from a southern tree growing at its northern 

 limit and succeed in raising plants from this seed, tlie seedlings thus 

 grown will be more hardy than the parent, and better able to resist 

 the severity of the climate. We trust that our fruit growers upon the 

 shores of Lake Huron and of the Georgian Bay will not lose sight of 

 this fact, but will experiment in this direction, particularly in the 

 raising of seedling peach trees from seed ripened there, for we are 

 •confident that in a few years they will be able in this way to secure 

 a race of hardy peach trees that will give them a crop of fruit, if not 

 as regularly as they secure a crop of apples, yet much more regularly 

 than they can ever hope to obtain from trees originated in a more 

 southern climate. 



AUTUMN PLANTING OF PERENNIALS. 



The old fashioned garden, in which Larkspurs and Lychnis bloomed 

 side by side with PiBonies and Prince's feather, while Canterbury Bell and 

 C!olumbine elbowed each other for precedence, and old fashioned, out-of-date 

 Honesty hung out its silvery seed pounches; and where sweet scented 

 x-osemary and bergamot and southernwood were'nt ashamed to flourish 

 rampantly, has given place to the mania for bedding plants and formal 

 ■arrangements of geraniums and pelargoniums and coleii, and to stately 

 Caladiums and Marantas. But in one of these old gardens in which plants 

 were jumbled together in charming confusion and delightful profusion, every 

 step was a surprise, and a tour of inspection a perfect voyage of discovery, 

 in which were brought to light whole continents of bloom. Here a trailing 

 branch of Honeysuckle, dew laden, swept your face; there a wanton sweet 

 brier clutched you with many thorns. Here is a plant whose presence was 



