The Canadian HokriciJi/iuuisi', 



h\i)k.\n(;i:a i-aniculata (ikaxdifi.oka. 



Silt, -In your next isssiie would you kindly inform me about the culture of liydiangeas. 

 what kind of soil, etc. I havebouj,'ht during summer some of these, reared at I'ort Hope, Init 

 they have not grown well ; remained very small and only llowered once this season. 1 

 am very glad of the explicit directions in journal about bulbs, i)lanting and treatment. I 

 have a great many growing. Mkjk.vru Hk.nry Li.;iit, Turoulo. 



Reply /')• Mr. A. H. Eivi/i^^, Secretary Florists' Club, Toronto. 



Your correspondent has, probably,got hold of some old stunted plants of the 

 above, and has planted them in poor soil. No shrub pays better for good treat- 

 ment and good feeding than this. Young plants should be planted in the springy 

 in good rich soil that has had lots of well decayed manure dug in, and they 

 should be kept well watered during dry weather ; when in full growth they may 

 have liberal dcses of liciuid manure. With this treatment they are .sure to have 

 large panicles of flowers towards the end of the summer. They should be well 

 cut back every vear, before the buds begin to swell, leaving only two or three 

 strong eyes to each shoot, except, perhaps in order to shape the plant, when 

 more may be left, but the less eyes left the stronger will be the growth. It is a 

 most beautiful shrub, and will well repay all the attention bestowed on it. The 

 flowers last a long time^well into October; it should be in every garden. Here 

 is a description of a round bed of them at Elizabeth, N. J., taken from the 

 American Florist, Dec. 15, 1888 : 



" The bed was 25 feet in diameter, and contained thirty plants, the centre 

 plants reaching to a height of eight feet. The plants will be seven years old 

 ne.xt spring. They were in bloom August ist. and made a handsome show for 

 two months. \\'hen at their best there were two or three thousand panicles of 

 bloom, the largest measuring fourteen inches in length, and ten inches in 

 diameter at the base."' 



I'RL'ir ON ,sA\i)\ son,. 



Sir,— I have bought a farm six miles from I^aUe Krie, where the soil is a sandy loam 

 with quicksand bottom. What fruits and vegetables would be best on such soil ? 



S. (!. FisciiKi;, f^iiiniimjlo)!, Onl. 



Among the fruits jdums, pears and apples succeed better on heavier soil 

 than the kind described by our corres[)()ndent, but it would be well adapted to 

 the growing of peaches, cherries, black and red raspberries, black currants and 

 blackberries. Red currants and gooseberries would succeed better on heavier 

 soil. 



