THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. oU 



up to this minute I have not seen any grafts from the friendly agent's boss. All 

 I received from them was "much obliged !" This was not a Yankee trick, but a 

 Canadian. No doubt this nurseryman will soon have any amount of trees to sell that 

 he will now raise from the grafts I sent him, without having given me one cent for 

 my trouble." 



SALEM GRAPE. — CLAl'J''s 1 ANtuMTi; AND GOODALE PEARS. 



Samuel Hunter, Scotland, County of Brant, writes : — 



"I like the Salem Grape, although not as hardy nor productive as the Concord, 

 yet larger and better flavored. I liad about a peck of pears from off my Clapp's 

 Favorite tree. Fruit not as good as the Flemish Beauty, nor near so large, but 

 early. I had one pear from off my Goodale tree gatliered before frost, and eaten 

 December 4th. I consider it very good. I am glad for myself, and others that I 

 meet with occasionally, that you have decided to send us a raspberry this year." 



THE WIXTEE GARDEK 



r.Y JA.MKS -MACPHERSOX. 



I am pleased to observe that the term "Winter Garden" is 

 employed in llritish America in its proper sense, and that it here 

 means a garden for the preservation and growth of plants and flowers, 

 and not a mere shamble for the exhibition of athletes and the sale of 

 lager beer. During the long Canadian w^inter, there are few things 

 more calculated to afford a high degree of refined pleasure than a 

 properly managed conservatory of flowering plants, Avhether it be 

 large or small. It is one of the most common complaints of house- 

 keepers that they cannot keep their plants in health in their living 

 rooms. How easy it would be for such to contrive glazed porches, 

 or bay windows isolated from the roam by folding doors, and having a 

 glazed instead of an opaque roof. An independent heating apparatus, 

 or a coil from the furnace, (where employed), could quite easily be 

 arranged, and a collection of plants from any zone kept in perfect 

 safety from frost, while the necessary humidity could be maintained 

 •without inconvenience to the family. Even without artificial heat 

 such a glazed porch could be kept clieerful with the broad leaved 

 evergreens from the colder portions of the warm tempered zone. For 

 instance, the Ivies, Hollies, Viburnums, Bays, Laurels, Aucubas, 

 Paphne laureola, Ulex, Genistas, Ilhododendron catawbiense vars. 



