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When once planted the Iris will increase in size and beauty every year. 

 The taller varieties can be placed in the background and the low-growing 

 sorts and medium sized in front — a charming picture when in full bloom. 

 They bloom from May until the last of June, and some of the old-fashioned 

 dwarf varieties much earlier. The flowers when cut are fine for house 

 decoration. — Vick's Magazine. 



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A LATE Strawberry. — On the 3rd of September, Mr. J. T. Couch, of 

 57»\ Davisville, North Toronto, sent us a runner of a strawberry plant 

 which was fruiting, having on it seven berries, which he assures us 

 would ripen, had they not been picked. He says that he has more like it, 

 and that some of the runners bloomed even before they had rooted. This is 

 surely somewhat unusual. 



A Nectarine. — Mr. A. Alexander, of Hamilton, sends a sample of a nec- 

 tarine, with the following remarks : — 



" By this post I send you three fruits from a tree growing in a back yard in Hamilton, 

 It is to all appearances a seedling peach, but as you will observe they have the aroma and 

 the flavor (to some extent) of the English nectarine. It fruited last year for the first time, 

 bearing a large crop, which ripened before the ist of September. Last year they had not 

 the high color which these had, but looked more like some varieties of green gage plums. I 

 think it an acquisition, if a seedling ; if not, do you know it ?" 



The nectarines certainly have a delicious flavor, and a pretty color, but 

 the size is against them as a market variety. The nectarine is simply a 

 smooth skinned peach, and sports of this kind often occur where a large 

 number of peach seedlings are raised. They can be propagated by budding, 

 and in England some twenty or thirty varieties of nectarines are cultivated. 



This one is probably a seedling from a peach pit, planted perhaps acci- 

 dentally in the place where it is growing. 



The William's Strawberry. — Mr. Alfred Ledger, of Bur ford, writes to 

 give the true history of this berry. He says that the originator of that berry 

 is Mr. Jonah W^illiams, of Burford. He found the first plant under a grape 

 vine, and planting them in an open field, he was so pleased with the fruit, 

 that he named them "William's Improved." He has grown them six years, 

 and has taken great care not to mix the plant with others. To show its 

 productiveness, Mr. Ledger states that after the frost of 1889, Mr. Williams 

 picked off one acre and three-quarters, 3,700 quarts. 



Mr. Ledger claims, therefore, that Burford and not Cainsville, is the 

 true home of this valuable strawberry. 



