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CANAUIAA' HOJrriCULTURIST. 



University of Illinois, who states a 

 good sized apple tree gives off the 

 amazing amount of 250 gallons of 

 water per day. To supply this, it is 

 evidently necessary for the roots to be 

 in land where the strata fetch the 

 water near the surface. So situated, 

 the writer claims that the apple and 

 pear trees are more vigorous, fruitful 

 and healthy than when grown on liigh 

 and dry lands. 



Grass and weeds steal the moisture, 

 and hence should be kept down by 

 cultivation until the shade of the trees 

 is sufficient to check them and coun- 

 teract their effects. 



Hardy Fruits. 



Whitney's No. 20.— Mr. D. B. 

 Weir, of Illinois, writes in the same 

 Journal of this apple tree, that it is 

 one of the finest of small ornamental 

 trees, perfectly hardy to the far north. 

 It is a pretty thing the year round, 

 clear and bright-looking in winter, 

 with its cone-shaped head and smooth 

 trunk. Its flowers are large and hand- 

 some, followed by large, luxuriant 

 foliage, and then in early autumn 

 covered with its ropes of cherry-red 

 cone-shaped fruit, one-third larger than 

 the well known Transcendant Crab, 

 with the color and shape of the Hys- 

 lop. It is indeed a rich thing. Its 

 fruit is really a good table apple, and 

 the handsomest of the handsome, the 

 first best for the kitchen. Every man 

 in Dakota and Canada should plant 

 twenty trees of the Whitney for use, 

 and every other man a few for use and 

 ornament. 



BLACKBKHKIES.-The Same writer does 

 not favor planting the hardy varieties of 

 blackberries for the North-West. Even 

 the so-called iron clads winter-kill, and 

 must beprotected. And since it is as easy 

 to protect one variety as another, he 

 advises planting the best and most pro- 

 ductive varieties only, and covering 

 them everv fall. This can be done 



thoroughly, it is claimed, at about 

 three dollars per acre. 



Transplanting Thkes. — Mr. D. S. 

 Tioy, in Scientific American, says that 

 one of the most important precautions 

 in transplanting a' tree is to have it in 

 the same position as to the points of the 

 compass as before removal. Nature 

 accommodates itself to circumstances, 

 and the difference in the development 

 of the north and south sides is obvious. 

 If the south side of a tree is turned to 

 the north, death is almost as certain as 

 if the roots were turned toward the- 

 sky. 



We are not at all convinced by Mr. 

 Troy's arguments. When the writer 

 was engaged in the nursery business, a 

 buyer who was possessed with this 

 notion, once marked every tree before 

 digging it, that he might plant it in the 

 same relative position. We looked 

 upon it then as a silly superstition, and 

 have never yet been convinced to the 

 contrary. But if any of our readers- 

 have any items of experience orobsei'va- 

 tion to give under this head we will be 

 fjlad to receive them. 



Paris Green a Safe Remedy for Cod- 

 lingr Moth. 

 PuoF. A. J. Cook, says in the Report 

 of the Wisconsin State Horticultural 

 Society, on tliis point. But what of 

 the danger of using such virulent 

 poisons on our fruit? Let me say tliat 

 I have considered that point most 

 fully. I have called in the aid of the 

 microscope, and the chemists' I'eageiits, 

 and both have said, "No danger." I 

 have used fruit thus treated now 

 for seven years, and have no fear of 

 poison. When the chemist's delicate 

 tests can find no sign of arsenic, when 

 the sharp eye of the microscope sees 

 no trace of the poison, nor can find 

 any trace for weeks before the fruit is 

 to be used, I feel that I can safely use 

 and reconmiend these arsenites in this 

 warfare. 



