CA JVA DIA N HOR TICUL TURIST. 



Ill ii year or two you can buy dozens 

 of these fancy, nnioli advertised tiling's 

 for less than one of them costs now. 



When you hear of a strawberry 

 which you think will be an ac(|uisi- 

 tion to your locality, buy half-a-dozen 

 and test them ; make the ground ricii, 

 de3p and tine, setting the plants four- 

 feet apart, giving them good cultiva- 

 tion ; keeping the surface loose during 

 the season, and with care, you can 

 make from these tive or six hundred 

 plants ; and the next year tiiey will 

 fruit. You can then tell whether to 

 set out more or not. It is not best to 

 increase the plantation largely until 

 after at least three years' trial. 



If you wish to try a new cap rasp- 

 V)erry, get two or three plants in the 

 fall, set in good soil and cover with 

 straw. Remove the straw the follow- 

 ing spring, and when the plant is a 

 foot high, nip oH" the top. Nip all the 

 blanches at about eight inches. Keep 

 it in until August, then let it go. As 

 the end of each branch touches the 



ground, cover it with two or three 

 inoiies of earth. Each plant thus 

 treated will furnish from twenty to 

 thirty plants. If set in the spring, 

 they will not give so many plants. 



To increase the red laspberry, it is 

 best to plant in the fall also. It is 

 needful also to have ground rich and 

 mellow around the canes; and if the 

 season be dry, mulch heavy with straw. 

 In the fall, when the leaves are off, 

 take up the entire plant, being careful 

 to get all the root. Cut the root into 

 pieces about an inch long, and place 

 them an inch apart in a box of fine 

 soil ; bury in the ground so they will 

 not freeze. In spring take them up 

 carefully, plant them where you wish 

 them to grow, and, with care, nine 

 out of ten will make good plants that 

 season. Blackberries, currants and 

 gooseberries, can be rapidly increased 

 the same way. 



In my next paper, I will speak of 

 strawberries, old and new, as tested 

 heie at Granton. 



SOME PROMINENT CANADIAN HORTICULTURISTS.-II. 



GEORGE LESLIE, SEXR., TOROX'l'U, ONT. 



THEsubjectof thissketch isthesecond 

 son of the late William Leslie and 

 Catharine,eldest daughter of Jas. 

 Beatty, and sister of the late Rev. Jno. 

 Reatty, of Cobourg. He was born in 

 the Parish of Rogart, Sutherlandshire, 

 Scotland, in the year 1804. At the 

 age of 16 he went to Tarlogie, Ross- 

 shire, and served an apprenticeship of 

 three years in the gardening profession. 

 He then, under the same proprietor, 

 took charge of the garden, hedges, ctt-., 

 at Arrabella, where he remained two 

 years. On the 1st day of April, 1S2"), 

 being his 21st birthday, he with his 

 parents and six brothers and a sister set 

 .sail for America, and after a passage of 



six weeks landed at Quebec. He im- 

 mediately obtained employment. In 

 the October following he came to Little 

 York, now Toronto. At that time there 

 were only tive brick stores on King 

 Street, all situated east of the market, 

 viz, Baldwin's, Allan's, Proudfoot's, 

 Stegman's and Lesslie i^i: Sons'. He at 

 once went to Streetsville, whither his 

 father had preceeded him, and chopped 

 in the bush all winter. In the spring 

 he returned to Little York and entered 

 the service of the late Hon. George 

 Crookshanks, Commissary-General. He 

 remained with hin) one season, and then 

 for several years acted in the capacity 

 of gai-dener and Horist for the late Hon. 



