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season, and a little shade from the burning rays of the summer sun. The 

 display of bloom will be enhanced by the application of liquid manure 

 during the flowering season. After flowering the plant may be set in the 

 cellar until spring. 



We do not know of any instances of this variety being grown in 

 the open air in Ontario, but Hydrangea panicidata grandijlora has been 

 tried and found perfectly hardy at least in Southern Ontario, as a lawn 

 shrub, for which its beauty of appearancfe renders it especially desirable. • 

 The star-shaped flowers of this variety are white, and where well grown, are 

 disposed in large leafy panicles of nearly a foot in length, see fig. i, quite differ- 

 ent in form from those of Hydrangea Otaksa, and more scattered. The 

 perfect and the sterile flowers are mingled, the former being small, and the 

 latter often as much as one inch across ; it is late flowering, and 

 most desirable on this account, as it has scarcely any competitors in its 

 season of blooming. This is also a native of Japan, and was introduced from 

 that country in the year 1874. 



TREES FOR FENCES. 



TWO experiences favorable to living fence-posts are reported as 

 follows in the Farmers' Review — the first from Kansas, the other 

 from Nebraska, the author of the latter saying that the trees " will 

 last longer than you and your son, too," while even cedar cut and set 

 involves a constant expense. 



"I think there is nothing better. I use box elder planted eight feet 

 apart ; stretch the wires very tight to a well-braced corner post of dead 

 timber. Attach the wire to every third tree by using a piece of smooth 

 wire eight inches long stapled in the middle of the tree, the ends bent 

 together and around the fence wire. The tree will then have to grow 

 three inches before reaching the fence wire. It can then be pulled 

 loose and the act repeated. Have never had a wire broken or a tree 

 injured, yet the fence is built over a high hill, in what is generally known 

 as a windy country." 



" Ten years ago I built a mile and a-half of barbed wire fence and 

 nailed on each tree a strip of board two and a-half inches wide to staple 

 the wire to. I used narrow strips because the trees were small. It is 

 a success ; the fence now is ten years old on trees fifteen years old. Trees 

 were cottonwood and five years old when used for posts. White cedar 

 posts put in the same year are now being replaced, perhaps hall of them. 

 If you don't want them to shade too much ground, cut off the tops and 

 keep them low ; they won't die. Set trees for posts by all means where 

 land is cheap." 



