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THE CANADIAN HOBTIOULTUKIST. 



THE MAPLE. 

 Oh, tenderly deepen the woodland glooms, 



And merrily sway the beeches, 

 Breathe delicately the willow blooms. 



And the pines rehearse new speeches ; 

 The elms toss high till they brush the sky, 



Pale catkins the yellow birch launches. 

 But the tree I love all the greenwood above, 



Is the maple of sunny branches. 



Let who will sing of the hawthorn in spring. 



Or the late-leaved linden in summer ; 

 There's a word may be for the locust-tree. 



That delicate strange new-comer ; 

 But the maple it grows with the tint of the 

 rose, 



When pale are the spring time regions, 

 And its towers of flame from afar proclaim 



The advance of Winter's legions. 



And a greener shade there never was made 



Than its summer canopy sifted, 

 And many a day, as beneath it I lay. 



Has my memory backward drifted 

 To a pleasant lane I may not walk again, 



Leading over a fresh, green hill. 

 Where a maple tree stood just clear of the 

 wood — 



And, oh, to be near it still ! 



— The Varsity. 



THE SOFT OR SILVER MAPLE (Ace7' 



Dasycarpum). 

 Note on the Maples. — Everyone 



knows the Maple, and that in autumn 

 its colored foliage is the glory of our 

 Canadian landscape. But everyone 

 does not know that there are a dozen 

 or moi-e varieties worthy of cultivation 

 in our lawns and parks. There are 

 three Canadian varieties, too well-known 

 to need description, viz : The Hard 

 Maple {Acer Saccharinun), a tree so 

 large and compact in its habits of growth 

 that in a small lawn it would hide every 

 prospect and be wholly out of place. 

 The Soft Maple or Silver Maple (Acer 

 Dasycarpum), a tree of rapid growth, 

 with slender branches, and foliage silver 

 white beneath, a favorite tree for street 

 planting; and the Red or Swamp Maple 

 (Acer rubrum), a most attractive tree 

 in early spring, with its clusters of 

 bright red flowers, which appear before 

 the leaves come out. It is of this 

 variety that Bryant sang : 



" When April winds grow soft, 

 The Maples burst into a flush of scarlet 

 flower." 



There are besides several very desirable 

 varieties of Norway and Japan maples 

 worthy of cultivation, a description of 

 which may be seen in Report for 1883, 

 p. 96. 



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THE CURRANT BORER. 



BY D. W. BEADLE. ST. CATHARINES, OXT, 



In THE March Number inquiries were 

 made concerning this insect, especially 

 for some method of combatting this 

 enemy of our currant bushes more in 

 accordance with our wishes than that 

 of cutting away the stalks and thereby 

 destroying the symmetry of our plants. 

 We propose to give our readers a de- 

 scription of these insects, accompanied 

 with cuts, which have been very kindly 

 supplied to us for this purpose by the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario. It 

 is to be hoped that our readers will be 

 enabled to recognize these pests at 



