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THE CANADIAN HORTTCULTUKIST. 



Mr. J. M. Underwood, also of Lake 

 City, says all kinds injure at times, but 

 suggests Transcendant, Beeches Sweet, 

 Early Strawberry, Whitney's No. 20, and 

 Orange. . 



Mr. A. W. SiaSj Rochester, Minn., 

 President of the Minnesota State Horti- 

 cultural Society, suggests for trial. Duchess, 

 Tetofsky (a few), and would risk Red 

 and Yellow Anis, and Russian Green and 

 White Pigeon. He does not mention any 

 early crabs, because he believes these 

 Russians equally hardy, hardier he thinks 

 than Quaker Beauty Crab or Whitney's 

 No. 20. 



Mr. Sias has experimented largely with 

 the Russian apples imported by the De- 

 partment of Agx-iculture at Washington, 

 in 1870. His yellow Anis is a medium 

 sized apple of pretty good quality, some- 

 what red in color, and though hard and 

 crude when I saw it, does not keep with 

 Mr. Sias later than beginning of October. 

 This is No. 987 of the Department of 

 Agriculture Catalogue. Red Anis, No. 

 985, is much like it, possibly a little more 

 red, and much like Skeischapfel No. 413 

 of Mr. Underwood ; scarcely the true 

 anis rosovoi of the Volga, but a near re- 

 lative. Russian Green No. 382 is also an 

 anis, without doubt, striped with red and 

 of the blue Anis family. White Pigeon 

 No. 317 is a small very conic sweet apple 

 with a very peculiar flavor. 



In Wisconsin, where the climate is 

 somewhat milder, our friends did not like 

 to venture an opinion. Mr. A. G. TuttJe, 

 of Baraboo, Wisconsin, has been a very 

 large experimenter with Russian apples, 

 and is now planting the best of them 

 largely into orchard. Mr. Tuttle spoke 

 of the sjiecial hardiness of tlie Hibernal 

 No. 378, a large showy fall fruit of pretty 

 good quality, and also of the Transparent 

 family of which yellow and white J'rans- 

 parent. Red Duck and Charlottenthaler 

 are members. His opinion of the special 

 hardiness of this Transparent family is 

 also that of Peter Gideon, at Excelsior, 

 Minn. 



Mr. Peffer, of Pewaukee, Wis., sug- 

 gested for trial for the rich soil of Mani- 

 toba, the slow growers like Tetofsky, Gibb, 

 Duchess and cherry crab, and also Trans- 

 cendant. These he suggested frtjm what 



he knew of them farther north. Gibb 

 Crab, he says, is doing well so far at Crooks- 

 ton. It is a seedling raised by Mr. Peffer 

 from Yellow Siberian (female) and Fall 

 Greening Cmale) the best in quality I have 

 in a collection of thirty varieties. 



When at Winnipeg I stated that apple 

 trees grown for trial there should be grown 

 upon ci'ab roots. In this I was wrong. 

 The Russian Ajiple tree does badly when 

 top grafted upon the crab, and especially 

 the Transparent family. Root grafted it 

 does better, but hardy apple roots are 

 much to be preferred. Such is now the 

 verdict of experimenters in Minnesota, 

 \\'isconsin and Vermont. Crab Apples, 

 however, had better be grown when ob- 

 tainable on crab roots. 



A GRAND RAISIN VINEYARD 

 ENTERPRISE. 



The largest sale of land ever made iu 

 Southern California for fruit purposes 

 has just been completed at Ontario to 

 the Sau Bernardino County Raisin Com- 

 pany of Boston, Mass. Thi-; company, 

 as the Riverside Press and Horticulturist 

 informs us, has recently been oi-ganized 

 with a capital stock of $1,000,000. 

 J The lands selected ai-e located in a 

 solid body on the railroad east of Onta- 

 rio. The water will be piped to the 

 highest corner of each ten-acre lot, and 

 the company will have a steady stream 

 of one hundred inches of water contin- 

 ously flowing upon their lands night and 

 day, or two hundred inches of day wa- 

 tex'. It is intended to plant not less than 

 five hundred acres to vineyard this 

 coming winter, and, if possible, a larger 

 acreage. 



This vineyard, when completed, will be 

 the largest raisin vineyanl on the coast, 

 and probably the largest one in the 

 woi'ld. The company is composed of 

 wcaltliy men, and their endeavour will 

 be to establish a brand for their raisins 

 that will stand high in the markets. 

 Aheady heavy raisin dealers in Boston 

 and London have signified their desii'e 



