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The ViuoiNiA Crekper or American Ivy, requires to 

 be planted in rich, cool, moist soil. When well started, it 

 will grow with a rapidity unparalleled in native vines. Its 

 foliage is of a beautiful i^reen in summer. In autumn it 

 changes to a most brilliant crimson, as if the vine were in 

 a blaze of glory. 



Plant in rich soil, and manure yearly. 



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The principal cause of the exclusion of many trees else- 

 where well known in cultivation is found in the occasional 

 groat severity of winter ti^mperature in this Province, and 

 though it may be assumed that trees subject in their native 

 regions to a winter similarly severe will, in most cases, 

 thrive here, it is imj^ sible to foresee in many instances 

 which of the trees ntiturally inhabiting a warmer or more 

 equable climate will ))ear the test of ours. This knowledge 

 must in most cases be gained by actual experiment, and 

 thanks to the enterprise of o few who have been working 

 in the matter, wm» can already note a considerable number 

 of valuable additions to our native arboretum. 



Apart from the production of valuable timber and the 

 formation of shelter-belts for houses and cultivated land 

 and growth of shade trees, tree-planting deserves to be 

 studied from the point of view of the landscape gardener, 

 who endeavors to vary the monotony generally found in 

 natural woodland by judicious mingling of trees differing 

 in form or unlike in color or texture ot branches and fo- 

 liage. It is especially in this direction that the naturaliza- 

 tion of the best varieties of exotic trees becomes important. 



Care should be taken in endeavoring to introduce new 

 trees — and especially in the case of those nat trail y inhabit- 

 ing more southern latitudes — to obtain the seed or yoiuig 

 plants from the northern portion of their range, as these are 

 often found to be much the hardiest. I recommend : 



Basswood, American Linden. "White-wood. Na- 

 tive. — A familiar tree of very rapid growth and line fo- 

 liage. 



