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The Secretary.—I might mention here that a firm in Hamilton have prepared wire 
cloth especially for that purpose, and I believe it would work very well. 
The Prestpent.— What varieties are cultivated here / 
Mr. Mircuett (Leamington).—Well, the Crawford is a very fine peach, but it does 
not yield enough returns. I think the Smock is one of the best, but Reeve’s Favorite is 
one of the finest and most productive I have ever planted. Almost every variety succeeds 
where I live. Good cultivation is one of the principal ohjects in getting good peaches ; I 
do not believe in putting a crop in the ground, but in plowing it. 
The Secretary.—_Why don’t you grow the Old Mixon? 
Mr. MircHeLtt —Because it is so unprofitable ; if we get a dozen oft a tree it is the 
outside in a good year, and two years out of three we don’t get any. 
The Prestpent.—Can you give us any idea of the extent of peach growing in your 
locality ? 
Mr. Mitcnett.—I know one gentleman who has 18,000 trees. He must have 
picked this year in one week about 2,400 baskets of one variety. I think he averaged 
about 400 hundred baskets a day of one variety. It was originated, or he got it, near 
Ridgetown. It is a yellow peach of very good flavor, and with a small pip; medium 
early, ripening a little after the Early Crawford. It is called the Tyhurst Seeding. 
The Presipent.—Would you advise anyone planting a peach orchard to plant it? 
Mr. Mircuevtt.—Most decidedly I would. 
Mr. Evxiorr.—Has anyone else got it ? 
Mr. Mircuett.—No, unless he has let them ; no one has it in bearing, The gentle- 
man I speak of has shipped peaches from his place by the car load. 
Mr. Batpwin (Essex).—I commenced by propagating seedlings from a tree. Some 
of my neighbors told me I could not propagate the Crawford from the seed, but I can 
show as fine Crawfords in my orchard as can be seen anywhere propagated from that tree. 
I have the tree the last speaker tried to describe (Tyhurst’s Seeding). It is a very 
profitable tree to have in an orchard, and will produce itself from the seed. 1 find I can: 
derive more profit from my own trees than from those I buy from nurserymen. I have 
the Waterloo, the Early Canada, the Shomacker, Alexander and several other varieties. 
BEST VARIETIES OF PEACHES FOR NIAGARA DISTRICT. 
The Presipent.—I see I am down on this subject, and I may say we grow there as 
_a standard the Crawford. The question asked is, The best six varieties. We would take 
for early the Alexander, or it does not matter much if we take one of those others, the 
Schomacker or Early Canada. That is our first peach, and the Early Rivers is our 
second, Then after Crawford’s Early I think a good deal of the Wager, which comes in 
immediately afterwards, and is a protitable peach. After that we have a local peach 
called the Bowslaugh, a very fair peach, and one of the surest of any we have for a crop 
in that locality, I think. The Late Crawford is a good peach when we can get it, but 
in a great many localities it is a poor bearer. I have been very favorably impressed 
during the last season with a peach about which I think our friend Mr. Willard, of 
Geneva, N. Y., can tell us something. It is called Steven’s Rare Ripe; it is the Old- 
mixon over again, but a week or ten days later, and, with me, a much better bearer. 
The Wheatland is considered first-class when we can get it. 
A MeEmber.—What about the Foster ? 
The Presipent.—The Foster is similar to the Early Crawford ; it would puzzle some 
folks to tell the difference, though it has generally a little rounder form and higher 
color. 
A MemsBer.—Could you detect the difference between it and the Wheatland ? 
The Presipent.—I think I could 
Mr. WILLARD.—Steven’s Rare Ripe is an old peach, and yet a comparatively new 
one. The results attained by a gentleman on the Hudson river in producing that peach 
were so wonderful that it attracted considerable attention. I think the peach was 
noticed twenty years ago, but, like many other good things, it has been lost sight of 
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