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and is a longer time in ripening tlian most peaches. The Early Rivers is a very nice 

 peach ; but I do not find it as profitable for a distant market as for a local market. For 

 a local market there is nothing to excel it at that time. With me the Early Louise fol- 

 lows. It is a very nice peach ; but I do not find it very profitable. Then comes in the 

 Crawford. I have no Hale's, because they do not succeed with me. I find the Foster 

 takes a few days the start of the Crawfords with me. The Crawford follows it. Then 

 would come in the Mountain Rose and the Sweetwater. Those two are my favourite 

 peaches for canning, above all the peaches that I have grown yet. Then would follow 

 the Barnard, which is a very profitable peach if not allowed to bear too heavily. They 

 want a great deal of thinning. It is just a medium-sized peach. It is very handsome. 

 I think a great deal of it in the orchard. Then I have the Late Crawford, which I think 

 a great deal of. The Old Mixon paid me better this season than any tree I had. Morris' 

 White I find a little too small to be profitable. The Lemon Cling is a peach that a great 

 many find a gx'eat deal of fault with ; but for my part I would not want to be without 

 some of them. They are a peach that come in in a good time, and I have found them to 

 sell for a higher price for the last three years than Crawford's Early. Then I have the 

 Smock, which I like very much. It comes in at a time when it has very little opposition, 

 and generally fetches good prices. The latest I have is the Salway ; but I would not 

 want to plant very extensively of it, as it is a little too late to risk. 



A Member. — Have you found the Salway ripen with you as well the last year or 

 two*? 



Mr. HoNSBERGER. — It has ripened thoroughly the last three years with me. 



A Member. — What do you thuik of the quality of if? 



Mr. Honsberger. — It is very good when thoroughly ripe. 



Mr. BiGGAR. — Does anyone know anything about the Boisole's Late 1 It is a very 

 good peach and a hardy one. 



Mr. GoTT. — The Early Barnard is one of our best peaches, very profitable and every 

 way acceptable. There was another peach that was sent out some time ago by Mr. 

 Barnard, called Early Melocoton, which is a good one. There is another peach grown 

 up our way, called the Black Peach. The flesh is a dark pink colour, as though the 

 whole thing from centre to circumference were stained with blood. 



Judge Macpherson. — We grow a few peaches at Owen Sound. I had one last year, 

 I know. There have been some very good ones grown there. The Early Crawford 

 grows very well. But it is not a peach- growing country there, nor has much attention 

 been paid to peach-growing in that section yet. Some places along the shore they grow 

 them every year, and succeed very well. 



Mr. Saunders. — I did not get even one peach last year from my place. The winter 

 was too hard on the trees. 



Mr. WiLLARD. — I have been interested in listening to the ideas brought out with 

 regard to the qualities of the peaches that have been mentioned. I have grown peaches 

 somewhat myself ; but I have found that the early peaches and the late peaches have 

 paid me best. I do not think I have had any that have paid me as well as the Amsden. 

 I can see no perceptable difference, however, between the Amsden, the Alexander, the 

 Wilder, and the Waterloo. I think there is a little diff"erence in the period of ripening 

 in some of these varieties that are so closely connected together ; but I think that differ- 

 ence, and perhaps the difference in the quality, is attributable some to the soil on which 

 they are grown and the age of the trees. Mr. Barry, whom we regard as an authority 

 on almost all of our fruits, has claimed that the Waterloo was earlier than almost any of 

 these early peaches by a week at least. Now, I found the Waterloo on my ground this 

 year to ripen with the latest of the Amsdens. I shipped the Amsdens for about ten days, 

 and I found the Waterloo and the Wilder came in with the latest of these Amsdens. I 

 have found the Rivers to be with us a very valuable peach. It has been one of the best 

 that I have grown, but not entirely fit for long shipments because of its very tender flesh. 

 It is the best, I think, of those peaches that Mr. Rivers has sent out. Speaking of it 

 with regard to quality, you will invariably find the Rivers best on the south side of the 

 tree. Perhaps that may be accounted for in a measure by the very marked character of 

 the foliage, which is sometimes almost like that of a Lombardy poplar. In consequence 



