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sprouts appear, plant the nuts in permanent rows, 40x40 

 feet apart. Some nut-growers prefer to raise the trees 

 in nursery-rows and transplant them when one year old. 

 Our experience is that such trees neither live so long, 

 nor grow so quickly, as those planted as we have ad- 

 vised. Previous to planting, the land should be wel! 

 plowed and subsoiled 18 or more inches deep. This wil! 

 causa the trees to grow much faster from the beginning 

 Cultivate the soil around the young trees well for a num 

 ber of years until they shall shade a good part of the 

 ground, when cultivation may cease, and the land be 

 sown to some kind of grass. Pecan trees not only stand 

 severe pruning, but like it. They make fine shade-trees 

 for the lawn or garden, and supply choice nuts besides, 

 — Louis Biediger, Texas. 



California Novelties. — Chrysanthvmuin Chula 

 Vista is one of the novelties shown to have merit at the 

 last exhibition of the Southern California Horticultural 

 Society, in Los Angeles. It originated with Miss K. O. 

 Sessions, at San Diego. The petals are reflexed, broad, 

 flat and pointed ; of a deep rose color, with a prominent 

 golden center. An excellent bloomer and a fine, showy 

 sort for decorative purposes. 



Nellie Allcliin is another very free bloomer, with full- 

 quilled petals, usually of a clear rose-purple or "lav- 

 ender to white." The blooms are very pretty and soft 

 for wearing. It was exhibited with the last. 



Canna Ventura, of recent California origin, is ol 

 graceful habit, a most persistent bloomer, and the larg- 

 est-flowering canna yet recorded. Its immense petals, 

 in color an exquisite mingling of scarlet and carmine, 

 curve outward. The plant is from three to four feet 

 high, with broad, handsome, dark green leaves edged 

 with rich brown. It originated with Mrs. T. B. Shepherd. 



Abutilon aurcinliacum is a native Californian species 

 of great promise ; dwarf in habit, not more than a foot 

 high, forming an oval, symmetrical bush completely cov- 

 ered with large, velvety, pea-green foliage. It bears, the 

 year round, large flowers of a most delicate and rich 

 shade of orange-yellow. No abutilon known to the 

 writer equals this in grace and native loveliness. What 

 may not be expected from it after careful culture ! 



Lathyriis splendens has proved a great favorite 

 wherever it has been tried, but unfortunately it is re 

 ported as not hardy in some parts of the east. It is 

 truly one of the grandest vines in America, and in south- 

 ern California clambers in wild abandon over whatever 

 support may offer, covering the side of a house, a porch 

 or a tree with festoons of its rich crimson clusters of 

 bloom. 



Lathyrus Calif amicus , with smaller magenta flow- 

 ers, is, when compared with previously known sorts, very 

 satisfactory, but in no way equals Z. splendc?is. 



Emme7ia7itlie fic7iduliflora is another novelty of de- 

 cided merit, destined to hold a permanent place among 

 annuals in the flower-gardens of the world. 



Papaver Califaruica, to be popular, must prove more 

 tractable in cultivation than at home. 



Viola pedunculata, the California peach-scented 



violet, is popular with all that have seen it in its native 

 fields, and we are likely to hear good news from it away 

 from home as soon as it has had opportunity to prove its 

 adaptability. — C. R. Orcutt, California. 



Wood Sugar-Pea. — The accompanying illustration 

 is an exact representation of a sample of sugar-pea re- 

 ceived from T. W. Wood & Sons, of Richmond, Vir- 

 ginia. Mr. Wood says he found some plants growing 

 on a relative's estate in England, three years ago. The 

 following is his description : "This variety continues to 

 bear several weeks. We consider it a novelty of as 

 great value as the Bush 

 Lima bean, which we in- 

 troduced and sold to Peter 

 Henderson & Co. We 

 think this pea destined to 

 be universally planted, not 

 only for its own excellent 

 qualities, but for economy 

 in money value, time saved 

 in gathering and shelling, 

 as well as space in growing. 

 We think from the size of 

 the pods that they should 

 be sliced before cooking. 

 Our pea differs from the 

 melting sugar - pea, which 

 has a white blossom. Ours 

 has purple flowers and the 

 pods grow o n e - t h i r d 

 larger." 



Sweet - Potatoes and 

 Peanuts not Profitable 

 at the North. — To test 

 the possibilities of sweet- 

 potato and peanut - grow- 

 ing for profit, a half-acre 

 plat was devoted to the ex- 

 periment last season. I 

 had once raised the former 

 successfully in a small way . 

 I now raised plants of 

 Early Jersey Nansemond 

 in a hotbed in the 

 usual way. Shallow 

 trenches were made four 

 feet apart, manure p u t 

 therein, and the earth 

 thrown back, forming the 

 ridges. Plants were set 15 

 inches apart. Cultivation 

 was thorough and the tops 

 prevented from rooting. 

 The drouth injured the 

 growth somewhat, but the Woou Sug.ar-Pea. 



crop was 25 bushels of 



marketable potatoes to one-fourth of an acre. In quality 

 they were inferior to the imported stock, being rather wet 

 when cooked particularly the larger ones They began to 



