THE CANADIAN H0KTICULTUKI8T. 



ANOTHER COMMON ERROR 



is thinking that there is not much 

 work about fruit growing. Some have 

 an idea that if they stick a few trees 

 and plants in the ground the rain 

 and sunshine will draw out the fruit, 

 and all they have to do is to sit down 

 and wait for it to ripen, and then 

 gather it. My friends, you never had 

 a more erroneous idea growing out of 

 your heads in your life, and you had 

 better let me lop it off. " Eternal 

 vigilance " is not only the price of 

 liberty (as we used to read in our 

 school books), but it is the price of 

 good fruit, and if you expect to keep 

 down Canada thistles and quack grass, 

 and kill the mice, and curculios, and 

 borers, and codlin moths, and canker 

 worms, and a thousand other insect 

 pests, vermin and noxious weeds with- 

 out a good deal of it, besides brain and 

 muscle, you are mistaken ; and if you 

 expect 



TO GROW FRUIT IN A FROG POND, 



or on hard red or blue clay because it 

 happens to be located in a fruit section, 

 you are doomed to disappointment. 

 Locality is important, but not more so 

 than soil. Diligence and vigilance are 

 necessary to success. Let this be your 

 first lesson. I will give my ideas of 

 varieties, planting, etc., in a future 

 number. 



Arrivals of Apples in Liverpool 

 market to date of Dec. 4 have been 

 265,938 brls., according to circular 

 from Messrs. Green & Whineray. 



JjlotD^B. 



WINTER FLOWERING BULBS. 



BV HERMANN SIMMERS, ESQ. TORONTO. 



At this season of the year, when 

 the time is arriving for bringing all 

 Dutch bulbs to the light, we purpose 

 drawing the attention of the readers of 

 The Horticulturist to a few 



practical hints 

 that will serve as a guide to those who 

 may be unaccustomed to the proper 

 treatment of such bulbs after bringing 

 them from their dark recesses. Many 

 people have oftentimes complained to 

 me personally of the great trouble they 

 generally have of trying to get their 

 bulbs to flower in the neighborhood of 

 Christmas; but allow me to remind the 

 readers of l^he Horticulturist that in 

 order to secure a perfect flower a little 

 more patience must be manifested on 

 their part. They must wait until that 

 season has arrived when the days are 

 getting longer, as at that time we are 

 gradually getting more and more light 

 to force the stems out. We speak more 

 especially of the 



dutch hyacinths, 

 as the Roman Hyacinths, in all the col" 

 ors, can be very easily forced for Christ- 

 mas with a large degree of success, and? 

 being much more rapid growers, it is 

 not necessary to give the same care to 

 them as to the Dutch Hyacinths, or 

 other Dutch bulbs. Another point we 

 might add is, that forcing Dutch Bulbs 

 is simply an artificial mode of growing 

 them in the house, and in order to 

 gain the greater success a few practical 

 hints can be used to advantage at any 

 time by the amateur. 



If Hyacinths grown in pots have 

 been in the dark for about nine weeks, 

 they may at any time after this be 

 brought to the light, care being taken 

 not to expose them suddenly, which 

 may easily be avoided by placing them 

 under a table for a few days, until the 

 sprout has changed its color from a 

 yellow to a light green, which is only 

 the chlorophyll of the plant rising into 

 the leaves on being brought to the 

 light. The same care should be ob- 

 served in Hyacinths that are grown in 

 glasses, with the exception, that when 

 the bulb has filled the glass with roots, 



