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striped and splashed with red on a straw coloured ground, and covered with gray dots, 

 flesh white, juicy, sub-acid, pleasant. Grown in Prince Edward County. 



Taylor Fish, at Cherrydale Farm, in Huron, is considered the best large fall apple 

 grown there ; it clings well to the tree, and is considered the best for cooking in any 

 shape. It is a regular, heavy cropper, and the tree a strong grower and hardy. 



Baxter's Bed, which originated in the vicinity of Brockville, is esteemed for hardi- 

 ness and productiveness. It is being planted in Renfrew, and likely to prove valuable as 

 a local fruit. 



Mr. W. W. Austin, of Oxford, should propagate from his fine russet, which proves a 

 fine grower and large cropper. It is certainly the handsomest russet on the lists, and 

 one that would strike the fancy of consumers in Britain for the dessert table. In flavour 

 and keeping it is fully as good as the American Golden Russet, and much handsomer in 

 form. 



An apple grown near Fonthill, and brought to the notice of this Committee by Mr. 

 E. Mori'is, supposed to be a seedling. He says the tree is an upright medium grower. 

 Fruit, green, covered with russet spots, about size and shape of a Rox. Russet, flavour 

 slightly sub-acid, somewhat peculiar, but pleasant and juicy ; winter. 



DISTRICT OP ALGOMA. 



We have several reports from this district which may be of interest to fruit growers. 

 Several of the first residents are enthusiastic horticulturists, and are determined to make 

 a thorough test of the various fruits. Although they have year after year lost many 

 trees by the severe winters they try again with a new lot of varieties, determined to find 

 something that will grow and bear. One grower located on the north shore of the 

 Georgian Bay, about forty miles east of Bruce Mines, says his first lot of trees were lost 

 entirely, but he has another lot that are doing finely up to the present time. They have 

 all ripened wood, and appear as if they will come through the winter safely. He finds it 

 an advantage to nip off the tops of the new wood about the tenth of September, so as to 

 secure perfect ripening of new wood on most varieties. The Alexander and Duchess ap- 

 pear to be perfectly hardy, and require no such precaution. Last winter was the severest 

 known for many years, the mercury indicating 37° below zero. A great majority of the 

 apple trees planted back of Bruce Mines were killed to the ground. There is a local 

 seedling apple which has borne fruit regularly for six years on a farm exposed to the 

 lake winds. The Glass Seedling plum is gi'owing well on the farm of a Mr. Robertson 

 back of the mines, and it is exposed to the severest lake storms. The. same gentleman 

 has a Clinton grape vine which is healthy and bearing large crops yearly. All over this 

 section there are crab apple trees hardy and bearing regularly. Mr. W. Warnock, one of 

 the most enthusiastic horticulturists in this section, has a large number of seedling apple 

 trees which appear quite healthy. He intends to graft most of them next spring, and 

 will be glad to try any cuttings of good and hardy kinds that fruit growers in more 

 favoured latitudes may favour him with. There is a long list of wild fruits all over this 

 district of more or less value, such as plums, cherries, raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, 

 gooseberries, black currants and strawberries. Strawberries and blueberries are plentiful 

 along bluffs, and wherever fires have burned off the timber. All along the coast large 

 crops of cranberries are gathered every year on the marsh lands, those near the lake 

 being always the best. Raspberries are a sure crop every year, and of much finer quality 

 as well as much larger berry, than those found wild here. 



Plums succeed well in the vicinity of Bruce Mines. 



On the Manitoulin and St. Joseph Islands any of our hardy varieties of apples will 

 grow and bear well, and are being tried pretty generally there in small lots. Early 

 Amber Cane seed sowed on June 2nd, was nine feet high when the first frost came ; it 

 was not ripe then, but by sowing earlier it can easily be ripened before the early frost. 



Mr. Thomas McCullogh, of Korah township, near Sault Ste. Marie, has done con- 

 siderable to encourage fruit growing in this section. He has a seedling from Fameuse 



