34 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



the growth is slow and the fruit inferior on old impoverished 

 lands. 



The Red Everlasting is said to be one of the most sprightly and 

 fresh of all late dessert apples. 



The Northern Spy has rapidly acquired the favor of our orchard- 

 ists. Its flesh is mild, juicy and fresh after long keeping and com- 

 mands the highest price in the market. The tree is of rapid, up- 

 right growth and needs judicious pruning when young, that it may 

 form open heads, and its fruit may be fully exposed to the sun, as 

 it is insipid in the shade. 



Our fruit-growers, when selecting trees in a nursery, give a 

 preference to those which throw out their limbs horizontally — for 

 experience has taught that those branches which grow from the 

 trunks at an obtuse angle, are stronger at the point of juncture, 

 and less inclined to split off than those which form an acute angle. 

 Crotched trees are rejected, on account of this liability to split 

 apart. 



One of our nurserymen, Mr. A. Noyes, has been very successful 

 in growing the apple on the paradise stock, by which it is very 

 much dwarfed, so that the trees can be raised six or eight feet 

 apart. They are well adapted for gardens and bear abundantly, 

 but are more suitable for the amateur than the orchardist. 



The apple tree cannot be made to grow well in light sandy soils, 

 where the white pine has flourished for a long scries of years, and 

 where there is a deficiency of potash, unless the land is first en- 

 riched with a compost of ashes, lime, muck and stable manure, and 

 after the trees are set out, it is necessary to mulch the ground 

 under them to prevent evaporation until they make sufficient pro- 

 gress to shade it completely, and it is important to encourage the 

 limbs to grow as low down as possible. In this way only can 

 complete success be attained in such localities." The compost just 

 mentioned is a good manure for the apple tree in any locality. A 

 preference is given to oyster shell lime, when it can easily be 

 procured. 



Our best and most popular pears are Doyenne d'Ete, Dearborn's 

 Seedling, Tyson, Bartlett, Fulton, Flemish Beauty, Beurre d'Ama- 

 lis, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Urbaniste, Seckel, if grafted in the top 

 of a thrifty growing tree, St. Ghislain, Winter Nelis, Piaster Beurre, 

 and Vicar of \Vinkfield for cooking. The Doyenne d'Ete is tender 

 on the quince stock, but is hard%' on the mountain ash. 



