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by some landscape gardeners as worthy of a place in the lawn. Mr. Geo.. 

 Nicholson in his "Illustrated Dictionary of (hardening,' says : " The (lolden 

 Elder (Sambucus nigra aurea) is a fine ornamental plant for shrubberies or for 

 use in sub-tropical gardens. If the shoots are regularly pinched off at the tips, 

 the plants may be kept dwarfed and of a fine golden color all summer. 



BUTTER AND EGGS. 



•'>I0. Sir, — I enclose you a weed that I planted in my j^arden last year, and tliis 

 year it has spread in every direction. The root goes down about a foot and breaks easily, 

 so I do not know wliat to do with it. 



J. M., Sturgeon Falls, Out. 



The plant is Linaria Vulgaris, commonly known as Toad Flax, or Butter 

 and Eggs, and is difificult of eradication. Digging or plowing the ground in 

 summer, when the plant is in full bloom, should destroy it. 



A HYBRIDIZED (JOURD. 



!i*iOm Sir, — Last year I grew some mock oranges and saved one of them for seed 

 which I planted this year, but, instead of bearing mock oranges it lias something resembling 

 vegetable marrow, in color, size and shape. As I cut the orange open and jjlanted the seed 

 at once, there was no chance for a vegetable marrow seed to get in with the others. Do 

 you think it would be .safe to eat it ' Possibly the bloom of the mock orange was atfectetl 

 by bees last year. Henky Benner, Aifr. 



The mock orange belongs to the gourd family, and so. does the vegetable 

 marrow, pumpkin, musk melon and Hubbard squash. These, when growing 

 near each other, very often cross, and, either on this account, or through the 

 agency of bees, the curious instance before us has come about. Probably the 

 mock orange from which the seeds were taken was grown near a pumpkin vine, 

 or a vegetable marrow, and was fertilized by its flower. The seeds therefore 

 produced what is neither the one thing nor the other. 



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ERRAT.V 



Sni, I beg to correct some typographical errors wliicli appeared in my apiarian 

 article in last issue, and which naturally alter the sense. In tne last line on p. ."{17 read 

 wire i/iinze instead of wire " gauge. " In the next sentence (on following page) read hroad 

 .section frames instead of " brood " section frames ; and fin separators instead of " ten ' 

 separators. 



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