124 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUEIST. 



THE TRITOMA UVARIA, 



sometimes called the Red Hot Poker or Flame Flower, blooms in September. 

 Its flower stems are from three to five feet high, and are terminated with 

 spikes a foot long, of pendant red and orange scarlet tubular roses, resem- 

 bling the plumes of a soldier's cap. In the mixed border these plants are 

 very showy and efiective, and they are also very useful in the centre of 

 beds of autumn flowering plants. 

 A late flowering 



SPIRJEA, CALLED CALLOSA ALBA, 



must not. be overlooked in a collection of midsummer flowering shrubs. 

 The plant is of dwarf, compact habit, almost round ; always forms a pretty 

 specimen, and produces white flowers. It commences to blossom in July, 

 when all the other Spirseas are out of flower, and continues in bloom nearly 

 all summer. For the edges of borders, or employed as a single specimen, I 

 know of no shrub that is more elegant and useful in a garden. 



HARDY ROSES. 



A few of the finest autumn flowering varieties may be named, as follows : 

 Alfred Colomb, Marguerite de St. Amande, La France, Countess of Serenye, 

 Paul Neyron. 



FRUITS IN WYOMING COUNTY, STATE OF NEW YORK. 

 (Continued from July No., page 109.) 



APPLE CULTURE. 



Whatever may be said of our fruits, the apple is appreciated in 

 Wyoming County. All agree that no branch of horticultui'e or agi'iculture 

 better rewards the care bestowed upon it. The area of our apple orchards 

 is every year increasing, and what is better, we are all learning that profits 

 are contingent upon judicious management. Touching cultivation, the 

 testimony already in, warrants us in summing up the case : Plowing of 

 orchai"ds is not necessary to their highest vigor, long life, or abundant 

 fruitfulness. Few have failed to notice the vigor and productiveness of 

 fruit trees, which, standing in yards, or near fences and, buildings, escape 

 the plow and get plenty of nourishment. The chairman of this committee, 

 in an address published in the transactions of the New York State Agri- 

 cultural Society of 1867, page 141, made this statement : "When I hear 

 of trees standing near a woodpile, in the corner of a fence, near a bai-n, a 

 hogpen, or the kitchen door, I am prepared for a big yield. The great 

 majority of our apple trees are either starved outright or go very hungry. 

 There are few instances of very large yields, except the tree by an adroit 

 strategic movement backed itself up against a building, a morass, a barn- 

 yard, or something that could shield one side at least from its remorseless 



