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than is now given should be furnished, — those roote which grew next the 5. This on i 
whether as ап Award ef merit or as а F.C.C, space proof of the beneficial effecta т — and air ye — — — md —— e De — 
r tbe town ог plant, Take, for example, а row of early Potatos block ава just fallen into the mortgagee'a 
society where the award was made, It would hardly — planted at the foot of а south wall, which, in apite of — banda; it cost 40,000 dollars, and is now on effer at 
be possible to extend the system of granting medale cold spring weather, are always excellent in crop and 15,000 dollars! The Barns block offered at 14.000 
to the provinces as is done at the Drill Нап, as that qaality, and this I have no doubt ia mainly attri- dollara; this was the cost of the site alone! A 
would be far too costly, and probably at the Drill batable to the great amount of sunlight and warmth, block in Victoria that cost 24 000 dollars is now on 
Hall i$ would be as well to limit each awards to and the ample space they enjoy. Andrew F. Pearson, offer at 6,000 dels! In Washington State, I. S. A, 
the ordinary card, and these ато appearance of adjoining us, they are sending in Potatos, &c the 
favouritiem for London, whilst re'usiog medals to ' storekeepers (payiog freight and duty), and leaving 
thecountry. Ali the same then, card or medal awards CHAYGANTHEMUME.—I am greatly obliged for to the storekeepera to remit balance, which is but 
could be made universally. Very urja*t are the your expression of opinion respecting the two jittie, I should think, when our local Potatos are 
against the presest composi. varieties of late Obrysanthemame which I sent tothe offered, and cannot be sold at 6 dollars (25s per 
| tion no Drill * — The Council office on the * in aer» avoid а — ton! Many are leaving the province daily," Samuel 
те allotted many seste to country fellows, communication, I was probably not explicit enough Dobie, Manohester, December м 
ч cpm year's Fruit Committee I coust sot fewer — 1a my note respecting tbe variety Florence Watson. ж 14, 1895, 
than sixteen ош! of forty wbo reside long ё In order to make it fairly representative, I included RABBIT-PROOF PLANTS.—In addition to those 
from London. И they do mot often attend it Ме bloom from a disbadded plant, and altbough enumerated by your correspondente, the American 
parely because of distance, which, of course, m Gtetinet, I amare you itis the same variety, Raspberry, both the pink and white varietier, may be 
expense, and {еге are al ten olbere who the diference being две simply to cultivation. When mentioned. The ts increase rapidly, and are 
at distances varying from від to twenty Gre miles bo three or f А areex- very effective when їп bloom, Another plant I have 
from town ; were there not а good sumber of metro- cellent for decorati „opening with broad never seen b is а " 
politan and eaburban bere, И would often be — foreta slightly in Е. the on centre а pretty, dwarl, evergreen shrub, very su or 
most dificalt to make ор committees, Да it ie, the fo а creamy-white, and as the bi It flowers in 
re is most remarkable and oredit- М gradeally asenmee a more refexed form with а and June, and the fruit ie much liked by pheasants, 
Oa the Fiera) Committee one ate мрн of the florets, sufficient to ting where rabbits 
country members 1 а bloom in an earlier of I would recommend the Dog- 
that those moch-abused bodies are mot quite of sech | may add, that are fornisbed on stout wood, Ssowberry, fo nta, 
localised formation ac вото not very good-natured a С^ = Moen а cine. Raspberry, and the scarlet- E der (5, race- 
critice seem to imagine. I have these П, Watson, Gardener, Eiki Най. moss), the last а most effective shrub when laden 
stggestions aa affording some ground for dect een. аш 
for it te moet propitives, A Fellow, . POTATO CULTURE.—TI have this year cultivated of Rhododendrons and Gaultheria by the sides ^ 
Maglis, Pendler, Obrondi, X utile tubero- walke and rides, I think sportemen will find that 
—— The complaints now appearing as to the — 1 755 — winged game will frequent the covert formed 
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metropolitan character of Ube Bociety bare а Гатау and Chili, which М. Н. de Viimorin sent these deciduous shrabs in preference to large masses 
emoust of truth in them, bat the question 108, ns, and the birde as well as ground- 
certain q with the exorption of tbe three first — of Rhododendro bir. 
DE sm à be ether e ede ege e 1 „ — — des М о 
Society cannot арр int оза Lo at as office sbo Я erent parison between plante as the common and Portugal tberis 
am not Felloww, or — Associates e tte "ving plante and herbarium specimens. Certainly, (Mahonia), Broom, &c., when established, are seldom 
much good might be dose by boca] bee en dee at Ark. de Candolie only knew S. Maglia dried or illus- injared by rabbita, except in severe weather, but it 
various centres, if well and jeticionsly managed, bat trated, as when the development of it is studied con- would be useless to plant them where rabbite are 
1 sath as araspement gould be e numerous, George Duncan, 
carried ost present state of а айга ee original ty pe . Mr u 
| Drcresary seeme to be EO ж in ® y be told that to avoid the <ifficalty of COLOUR IN APPLES.—Some time since your 
| neighbourhood to join the обу ani ifthose Cultivating in the open ground Solanume Maglie, correspondent,“ A. D," drew attention to fruits of 
bs BOF com " a. orit варс. eser, and Obroméi, Gifücalües mentioned Dg n exhilited | he Han 
T if they cond become acqusinioad with the work Garden, 1 bare thie year grown the tubers of 20 
шем — species їп large pote with sandy soil or loam. I 
about by their attending ame of the mert nge of the obtained plante which fowered well and bore tubers Я 
See. Many of the state west that are nos twice se large at those which I bad planted, The 
i М ригоова residing in distant parte o' the country sides o! the pote prevented the rhizomes from wan- 
| Weald then be found to be dering too mach, consequently tbe tubers were more 
Abetber point А developed, and, ы is to pote, the 
eect " * i : * 
е n gathering: —— Erbe 
wome years past he 
CENOTMERA ing Tuer aded rg 
of fowere is the and on which tbe trees are growing. with the 
interesting, then, object of incr«asipg the amount of colour in the skin 
thie rule, those of certain varieties, He would, indeed, be a bold 
said to open man who would вау, after inspecting the whole of 
occure in July, tbe trees as I did last ber, that Mr, Miles has 
August, about not succeeded in his endeavour, I never saw Wel- 
about 6 or 6.30, The four lington (Damelow's Seedling) with such high colour 
to separate till they ав bere, There are quite fifty trees of this Apple 
xtremitier, and suddenly about twenty-six у id, whieh d ptionally 
of the corolla ; — of {гий in some seasons; and one tree 
back sharply not d with these substances exbibited a marked 
K contrast to the otbers. King of Pippins, Cox's 
round S have never seen 
and shows го richly c elsewhere. The disputed Blenheim 
jhemomenonofthis Orange Pippin was quite exceptional too, Scores 
—— ate ү is the 
on detached unches of 
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remarkably fine 
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