. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. oon leftus, and has only returned occasionally for a day ortwo, and we have had very little sleighing, but agreat many delightfully warm .and bright days. Thelack of snow, however, has been disastrous in manyinstances to the fall Wheat, which where put in on atall unfavourable circumstances, has succumbed to thealternate frost and sun. The description of Wheatwe have sown most of ig th? Seneca, which yielded us market at about 4^ cents per pound live weight—sayl^d. per pound English currency. The lum
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. oon leftus, and has only returned occasionally for a day ortwo, and we have had very little sleighing, but agreat many delightfully warm .and bright days. Thelack of snow, however, has been disastrous in manyinstances to the fall Wheat, which where put in on atall unfavourable circumstances, has succumbed to thealternate frost and sun. The description of Wheatwe have sown most of ig th? Seneca, which yielded us market at about 4^ cents per pound live weight—sayl^d. per pound English currency. The lumber tradeis reviving nicely, and prices have considerably ad-vanced. A new trade has sprung up in Barrie in alarge demand for ice, which is cut out of the Bay andloaded on to the railway trains alongside fur Chicagoand several other large cities of the United long train is loaded every hour. J. M., Mineiiv^,Ontario, Marcli 24. Florists Flowers. Seasonable Notes on Hardy Florists Flowers.—Auriculas.—There is a good deal of I work to be performed in May. There are always a few. Fig. 93.—a mountain in a flo\yer-?ot, from a Japanese drawing, (see p. 528.) sort of hock is made from the Steen Grape, and isvery strong. Most wines are prepared from the blackand white Green Grape. The custom of adding spiritto the liquor alters the character of the natural wines are now being much improved in newly proclaimed agricultural , open toselection on the system often annual payments of \ acre, promise to be enormously productive infruit. The rich soil, abundantly provided with run-ning water, with the shelter of native woods, mustyield plenteously. The new settlers taking up thesefine farms will have delightful orchards about them ina few years, and be able to send their fruit to theEnglish market with the same facility as Spain andPortugal did a few years ago. Any persons not far-mers, but with gardening tastes, might embrace theliberal offers
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