This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
A distinguished Western horticulturist writes: "The portrait of friend Barry is excellent. He is certainly worthy of the honor you confer upon him. To him I owe my first lesson on fruit growing. I then bought and still have the " Fruit Garden," by P. Barry, 1863. It was a good book then, and is a good book still."
These energetic botanists have returned safely from their very dangerous expedition to the Huachuca range, in the mountains of Arizona. The plants collected are now ready for distribution.
This is what the printer should have given it in Mr. Harding's interesting sketch in the last Monthly, where it reads " Darby Dale."
It is not generally known that tithes are collected by law from the Roman Catholic cultivators of the soil in Quebec. The Illustrated Journal of Agriculture says that one twenty-sixth of the grain the farmer threshes, by law goes to the church. The only way by which he can escape the tithing process is by a written declaration, signed and sealed, that he has ceased to regard himself as any longer a member of that church.
A "Sycamore" tree, probably Ficus Sycamorus, grew new Heli-opolis, by Cairo, in Egypt, which was long regarded as a tree under which Joseph and Mary rested in their flight from Palestine to Egypt. It was supposed to be an old tree at that time. It died in 1665, and another planted in its place in 1672. It is said to have got through the recent military troubles without injury.
It appears from Pliny's description, that the Rhododendron of the ancients, so poisonous to animal life, was what we call oleander. It still goes by the name of Laurie'r rose, or rose laurel, on the continent of Europe. They value the plant highly and have red, white and yellow, of many forms and shades, and doubles and singles of all colors.
Mr. E. Sanders describes in the Prairie Farmer, the new houses of Mr. F. F. Canda, all heated with hot water in the best manner, using two pipes or steam boilers and some 7,000 feet of four-inch pipe. The houses, three in number, are built east and west, 150 feet long by about 20 feet wide, and attached with a fine take of roses and carnations, along with a smaller stock of a mixed class of plants.
The London Garden accurately describes the present system for premiums as the "victory of the least bad," When judges shall be expected to give their reasons for awarding premiums we may know wherein the merit of the victor lies. It is really remarkable that the old lazy system should prevail so long.
 
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