DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



Tliey were trained flat to a brick wall. 'SVo 

 then went to the Bonsecours Market Hall and I 

 was introduced to Mr. Suepard, who was, 

 with many others, arranging his choice fruits 

 for exhibition at the Fair. 



"We conversed on the subject of the best va- 

 rieties of fruits, for a northern climate, for some 

 time. I then asked the favor of them to hand 

 me, at their earliest convenience, a catalogue 

 of such fruits as are best suited to the climate 

 of the Canadas. Mr. Lunn replied he would 

 do it with pleasure, and show it to Mr. Suepard 

 for his api)roval. He did so. Mr. Shepard 

 added one or two varieties and both signed it, 

 a copy of which I hand you with this communi- 

 cation. 



I received from Dr. S. J. Lyman, druggist 

 of Place d'Armcs, a letter of introduction to 

 the venerable Henrx Corse, Esq., a horticul- 

 turist of mark. 



I rang the door-bell and Mr. Corse, himself, 

 invited me in and to be seated. And I think I 

 never spent two hours more agreeably than I 

 did with this gentleman. AVere I a skillful 

 stenographer, I should have been pleased to 

 have pencilled down all he said to me. By his 

 consent I did take notes of much of his con- 

 versation. I should judge he was about 70 

 years of age. He gave his reasons tor believing 

 we should have a succession of mild winters 

 for many years from 18i9, and thought our 

 fruit trees would not be killed by hard winters 

 as they have been for fifty years past. He in- 

 formed me the reason he did not reply to my 

 fruit circular, two winters since, was that he 

 was then in England. I went with him through 

 his fruit garden and his graperies. Among 

 other fruits he showed me a pile of gold colored 

 pears, as tempting as any I had witnessed in 

 my journeys a month previously. I seldom, 

 if ever, eat a more melting and better flavored 

 fruit. It was the Beurre Crapaud. The trees 

 of this variety, he said, will bear to be planted 

 as far north as will the sugar maple. He show- 

 ed me the trees and they were of large size and 

 all of them were very thrifty to the tip end of 

 each branch. Most of his apple and plum trees 

 were of his own originating, and it seems to be 

 his ambition to originate new and choice va- 

 rieties. His Nota Bena Plum is as popular at 

 Montreal as our McLaughlin is in Bangor. His 

 grapes were chiefly of the "White Sweet "Water 

 vaiiety, in the open culture, and lie said he liad 

 raised and ripened them, in some years, in the 

 open air, and had one month to s])are. His 

 fruit garden and graperies, as a whole, are not 

 equal to, nor so extensive as Mr. Ltjnn's. 



I noted down the fruits he would recom- 

 mend for a northern climate. They were as 

 follows: 



Apples. — Bourassa, Fameuse or Pomme 

 d'Neige, Pomme Grise, Corse's Orange Reinette, 

 a native of his own garden; St. Lawrence, 

 Corse's Seedling, a fall apple of good flavor; 

 the Duehes.s of Oldenburgh, a Russian 

 ery popular in this city. 



Pears. — Beurre Crapaud, and Holland Ber 

 gamot or Bergamotte d'UoUande, see Down- 

 ing page 430. 



Plujis. — Nota Bena, Admiral, Field Marshal, 

 Twin, Decatur, Rising Sun, Regent, Golden 

 Globe, Sovereign and Aurora. All the above 

 plums were originated by himself. 



Grapes. — Open culture — "V\^hite Sweet "Wa- 

 ter and Black Chuster. 



At Quebec I had no time to devote to horti- 

 culture; for I arrived at that city at 8 A. M. 

 on Friday and left the next day at 5 P. M., 

 and in the mean time rode 9 miles to the Falls 

 of Montmorenci. I learnt however that apples 

 and plums were raised there, and in fact I saw 

 the fruits on the trees. Many of the fruits in 

 this latitude of 47 are cultivated in greenhouses 

 or under glass. 



Green-houses arc seen here in abundance. 

 Dwarf apple, pear and other fruit trees can be 

 walled in a green house without taking much 

 room. 



In conclusion I would say to all who intend 

 to raise good fruit, that the trees must be nour- 

 ished with something to cause them to thrive, 

 such as ashes, leaves, bones of all kinds, lime, 

 meadow muck mixed with ashes or lime, oyster 

 and clam shells, and stable manure, that the 

 soil be not exhausted. "Will a cow in one day 

 fill a ten quart pail with milk without good 

 feed? AVill horses and oxen perform their ac- 

 customed labor without being well fed? Cer- 

 tainly not. Neither can a tree yield fruit 

 bountifully without being fed. 



Montreal, Oct. 14lli, 1S50. 



CoL. Little — Dear Sir — The fruit trees that 

 appear to be the best adapted for cultivation in 

 the climate of Montreal, in Canada, are the 

 following, viz: 



Apples. — Pomme Grise, Fameuse^-every 

 good orchard in Montreal contains a propor- 

 tion of about two-thirds of these two varieties. 

 Bourassa — an excellent apple, but does not live 

 long, and can very seldom be trained to become 

 a handsome tree. St. Lawrence — an excellent 

 fruit, but does not keep long. Blinkbony — a 

 Montreal seedling, ripe here in August, an ex- 

 cellent table fruit. Early Harvest, Keswick 

 Codlin, Ribston Piiipin; English Rennet — a 

 very high flavored, large sized autumn fruit, 

 color a greenish yellow, closely resembling the 

 Fall Pipi)in. Spanish Rennet — a winter ajjple. 

 Red Astrachan; King of the Pi])pins — a Sept. 

 fruit, large and handsome. Rhode Island 

 Greening; Duchess of Oldenburgh — a hand- 

 some Russian fruit. 



Pears. — Passe Colniar Precelle, (probably 

 Passe Colmar of New England,) "\Yhite Beurre, 

 Beurre d'Hiver, Summer Bon Chretien, Moor- 

 Fowl-Egg. 



Grapes. — The White Sweetwater and Black 

 Cluster. 



Plums. — Green Gage, Jefferson, Corse's 

 Dictator, Corse's Nota Bena, Kirke's 

 plum, peach do.. Corse's admiral, Bolmar 

 "Washington, Violette Hative, Lucombe 



