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Mr. Beadle. — I have an idea that it ripens about the time of the Wager peach. It 

 is a yellow-fleshed peach of a very good quality, a good bearer, good size and appearance. 

 I have not fruited it myself. 



Mr. Morris. — There are a good many of that variety fruited in our section, and I 

 think the fruit is the largest that we have. It ripens a little befoi-e the Late Craw- 

 fords. 



Mr. Beadle. — What do you think of the quality of the peaches'? 



Mr. Morris. — Yery good. 



Mr. WiLLARD. — We have none of the yellows where I live ; but knowing that they 

 have them in almost every section, it seems to me that those engaged in the work of 

 arresting the progress of the disease should ferret out and let it be generally known what 

 peaches are less liable to the yellows than others. There must be some such grown at 

 the present time. 



Mr. Beadle. — I think that last winter Mr. Woodward told us that in his peach 

 orchard — which was worth a good deal once, but is worth hardly anything now — there 

 was one variety that escaped the disease. 



Mr. Woodward. — That is so. This last year that same variety remained fi-ee from 

 the yellows. I would not like to say it is exempt until I have tested it further. I do 

 not know what the name of it is. It is a better peach than the Crawford. It is a round, 

 dark peach, a deep yellow, and a larger peach than the Crawford, a good, strong grower. 



PEACHES FOR CANNING AND DRYING. 



Mr. GoTT. — It has already been said that the Mountain Rose has excellent qualities 

 for canning. We have a peach — I do not know whether it is very generally known — 

 ■which we call Hall's Beauty. It is a very solid peach, not very large, but for canning 

 purposes it is first-class. For drying, we consider that our seedlings answer every pur- 

 pose. 



Mr. Beadle. — I came away from the Rochester meeting with this impression on my 

 mind — that the white-fleshed peaches have been used of late years by those who dry and 

 those who can peaches because of their handsome appearance when put up — because they 

 are more attractive to buyers than the yellow peaches. It is not that they possess any 

 particular qualities that make them dry any easier or better, or because they can better, 

 or are any richer. With regard to the seedling peaches, I do not know to what market 

 my friend sends those he dries ; but I think that no person who has an educated taste 

 with regard to peaches would ever buy his Seedling peaches dried if he could get these 

 other varieties. 



Mr. Woodward. — -We had one dryer in our town who told me not long ago that he 

 would take all the Mountain Rose peaches he could get, and agree to run his evaporator 

 night and day throughout the season, and would pay seventy-five cents a bushel for them. 

 He said he thought he could not begin to supply the demand for them, and that the 

 people would not take anything but that variety. He said there was twice the money in 

 them that there was in any other variety that he had ever dried. 



EFFECTS OF THE PAST WINTER ON FRUIT TREES, ETC. 



The next topic discussed was, " The eflfect of last winter on fruit trees, grape vines, 

 and small fruits." 



Mr. BuCKE. — I can bear testimony that last winter was the best winter we ever 

 had for fruit trees. We had more blue plums this year than we ever had before ; and 

 we did not loose any fruits at all from the effects of the severity of the winter. Up here 

 the winter was so severe that they thought we in Ottawa were all going to be killed 

 out : but we never before had so much fruit as we have had this year. We had more 



