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TlcULTUKisr) is very difficult to procure. 

 As it is difficult to propaj^'ate, and a 

 poor grovver, such iiurserynieii as are 

 not very careful of their reputation, or 

 very sensitive in conscience, generally 

 supply something else nearly of the 

 same color, usually something of the 

 Coquette des Alps type, which is very 

 easily grown. 



Her Majesty has bloomed with me 

 this season for the first time. It is a 

 tine, large, bold and very double fiowor. 



Puritan has also bloomed with me. 

 It is not quite as large a rose as I ex- 



pected to see, but in all other respects 

 exceeded my expectations. It is 

 apparently a valuable addition to our 

 small list of good white roses. 



One of the latest arrivals of all, Mrs. 

 John Laing, has bloomed freely with 

 me. It is a thoroughly good, free- 

 blooming ro.se, somewhat similar to 

 Francois ]\Iichelon, though not quite so 

 deep colored. The new tea rose. 

 Meteor, has also bloomed with me. 

 The color is good, but the Vjlooms as yet 

 have been small, and the fragrance not 

 as strong as could be desired. 



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THE CLIMATIC PANGE OF TREES. 



By KOHKISTKK. 



ONE of my friends, lately removed 

 from London, Ont., to the Capi- 

 tal, said : "It is just as cold in London 

 as in Ottawti, only there is more snow 

 here." " Wait," say I, "just see the 

 difference in the trees." "Well, that 

 is one way to look at it," said he, and 

 abandons the argument. 



When the fruitgrower tinds the 

 peach will ripen west of Toronto, but 

 not east, even on the lake shore, he 

 will see there is a very slight, but still 

 some difierence in the climate, not per- 

 ceptible, and perhaps not of a kind to 

 be learned altogether from the meteoro- 

 logical reports — a tree planter, as well 

 as the fruit grower, will tell from the 

 success of liis varied stock, all the 

 diversities of temperature, moisture as 

 well as wind and soil. 



For practical success in either, a 

 careful study of the native trees and 

 fruits is the safest guide. After a little 

 experience is gained, it will be of profit 

 to try many other trees, not yet known 



to be hardy in the locality ; and perse- 

 severe in the experiment, as frecjuently 

 a variety a little more hardy than its 

 nearest relatives, may be found. 



I cannot say that for profit it is desir- 

 able to plant any trees not known to be 

 native to the locality, or near it. In 

 tills country new plantations are yet in 

 their infancy, and offer no results to 

 guide us, and in the meantime we 

 must go on planting what we are sure 

 of and experimenting with all others 

 we have any hope of. The Catalpa is a 

 foreign tree, of doubtful hardiness, 

 though I have seen a good tree raised 

 from seed grown at Hamilton, Ont. 

 I have not been far enough south yet 

 to find a Catalpa on which the tip of 

 every limb was not frozen back more 

 or les.s, and I think it took an e.xperi- 

 menter, Dr. Warder, many years to 

 find a variety that was hardy in Ohio. 

 The Catalpa Speciosa introduced by him 

 seems to answer there, and is worth 

 trying in Ontario, but there is a great 



