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an improvement on Belle de Fontenay, others resemble Hornet, but 

 are morp hardy, and another large, delicious yellow is now called 

 Diadem. The last named has the peculiarity of sometimes sending up 

 canes that produce red fruit, and some that produce yellow fruit, from 

 the same roots. If I were not prepared to prove this statement by 

 some of the most intelligent and prominent horticulturiets in Ontario,. 

 I would not have dared to make it. This is the only instance of this 

 kind I have ever heard of, and in my opinion constitutes proof positive- 

 of its hybrid character, and showing at the same time a strong ten- 

 dency to return to the original type. Charle.s Aknold. 



[The above was written for The American Oarden by the late 

 Charles Arnold of J:*aris, Ontario, shortly before his death, and not only- 

 shows how carefully and systematically its author conducted his experi- 

 ments, but also furnishes an important contribution to pomological 

 science. — Ed.^ 



HUNGER AND QUALITY. 



In speaking of the quality of fruit, a contemporary intimates that 

 a good appetite often has much to do with the quality of fruit. That 

 is, if a man is very hungry a very poor specimen of fruit will appear to 

 him to be excellent. That is true. But our contemporary goes on to 

 intimate that the alleged excellence of the wild strawberry is often de- 

 pendent upon the fierceness of the appetite. It says that it has known 

 people to hunt tor the wild strawberry until they were about famished^ 

 and then think there was nothing like it. All that may be true, tco^ 

 But hungry or not hungry there never was a strawberry yet grown that 

 is equal in flavor to the wild berry. We have improved the size and 

 appearance of the strawberry but have not improved its quality. Then 

 is the improvement a failure ? By no means. The improved berry 

 has enough to recommend it to counterbalance this, especially from a 

 commercial standpoint. 



raspberry blackberry HYBRID. 



Mr. Wm. Saunders, of Canada, during a brief call at this office^ 

 spoke of hybrids which he had effected between the raspberry and 

 blackberry. We find in late English papers a new "pure black rasp- 

 berry" offered, which purports to be such a cross. It is called the 

 "Glenfield." It is largf^r than any black cap, though smaller than the 

 average blackberry. The advertisement reads : "By crossing a black- 

 berry with a raspberry, a fruit partaking of the shape, flavor and habit 

 of the raspberry (with just a perceptible and unusually pleasant taste 



