. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1887. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. 210 THE CANADIAN H0ETICULTUKI8T. sunshine, needs no human basting. Its veins are sweet with fragrant dew formed into life by soft sighing winds. The ardent kisses of the summer sun paints the bhishing cheek of the vel- vety peach, and fills with wine the purple grapes ensphered in purple luxuriance that drop through the leafy roof of trellised arches. Such a break- fast is patriarchal. It has a flavor of Arcadian days and the mythological age of a dead past.—Ex. FRUITS FOR STOCK. When some of my pear trees littered
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1887. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. 210 THE CANADIAN H0ETICULTUKI8T. sunshine, needs no human basting. Its veins are sweet with fragrant dew formed into life by soft sighing winds. The ardent kisses of the summer sun paints the bhishing cheek of the vel- vety peach, and fills with wine the purple grapes ensphered in purple luxuriance that drop through the leafy roof of trellised arches. Such a break- fast is patriarchal. It has a flavor of Arcadian days and the mythological age of a dead past.—Ex. FRUITS FOR STOCK. When some of my pear trees littered the ground with their ripe mellow fruit, I fed them to my cows. A peck of pears with two quarts of meal and bi-an for a noonday feed, increased the milk and butter fully one fourth, and when the apples wei-e ripe and only 50 cents a bushel could be got for them in the market, the horses, cows, pigs and fowls had all they wanted and the ripe fruit did them a good deal of good. Some farmers give the wind-falls— wormy, hard, gnarled fruit—to their animals and complain that they are unwholesome. And why not? Are they wholesome for themselves 1 Do they not suffer the pains and penalties of eating hard unripe apples'? Why should they expect their stock to escape similar consequences ? Give only ripe sound fruit to the animals, they will be greatly benefited by it.—H. S. in Orchard and Garden. Wm CHanaiiian ^N Illus trated Monthly Journal, de- I voted to the interests of Fruit Growers, Gardeners, and Gentle- men owning rural or su- burban homes. Subscription price $ per year, entitling the subscri- ber to membership of the Fruit Grow- ers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Annual Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees. This Journal is not published in the in- terests, or for the pecuniary advantage of any one, but its pages are devoted wholly to the progress of Horticultural Science
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