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THE CANADIAN HORTICDLTUKIST. 



have done well with us till last year, 

 when there came a blight on them 

 about the middle of summer and 

 killed some altogether. Still the light- 

 coloured plumb was not so badly af- 

 fected ; but the frost came and killed 

 them just as they we^re about ready to 

 pull. The Lombard and Duane's Pur- 

 ple suffered most by the blight. 



David Saunders. 

 Kemble, Out. 



BLISS' AMERICAN WONDER PEA. 



I sowed li bush, of these peas last 

 spring. The crop was not large, but 

 under the circumstances encouraging. 

 I planted with a hand sower. The 

 machine, or perhaps rather its man- 

 ager, didn't work well. In spots they 

 came up too thick, in others too thin, 

 and planted in drills two feet apart 

 covered nearly an acre of ground. 

 Probably off" one half the quantity of 

 ground at one foot apart I would have 

 had better peas and more of them. 



Owing to the unusually wet season 

 they were badly damaged in harvest- 

 ing ; many of them sprouted, more of 

 them so much blackened as to be un- 

 saleable. I sold 10 bushels for $50, 

 the seedsman pronouncing them to be 

 a first-rate sample. This appears to be 

 the best dwarf pea in the market, and 

 is likely to take the lead for a long 

 time. Arnold's $1,000 a bushel pea 

 may be better, but we have yet to 

 know it. 



ONIONS. 



I had a strip on a ])iece of ground 

 30 X 150 feet, sowed thiidy, in rows 

 two feet apart. These, too, would 

 have yielded the double if sowed at 

 half the distance. I had 23 bushels, 

 all large, upwards of 200 bush, per 

 acre. Kind, large Red Wethersfield. 

 The land was not rich, but manured 

 with wash from the barn-yard. 



John Croil. 



Aultsville. 



LADY WASHINGTON APPLE. 

 To all fruit men, and whoever it 

 may be, I intend to make known in 

 the way of an apology that the apple 

 which is getting familiar, in the United 

 States as well as in Canada, under the 

 name of Hoover's Favorite, has no 

 just claim to the name. Its original 

 name is Lady Washington, which will 

 be found recorded in the report of the 

 Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario 

 for 1879, page 58. I am now informed 

 fiom an old fruitman from New York 

 State that there is already two or three 

 kinds of Hoover apples described ; I 

 suppose not only described, but per- 

 haps offered for sale. Perhaps it would 

 do some service against fraud by de- 

 scribing the habit of the tree, and also 

 the fruit. My trees are all top- 

 grafted. They don't grow a very neat 

 head ; rather crooked limbs, stubby 

 when old, faii-er-looking when young 

 bark soft and yellowish. The fruit 

 generally is of a good size, varying 

 much in colour— some nearly white, 

 others tuniing to yellow, others again 

 having a fine rosy blush on one side ; 

 juicy, white flesh ; slightly acid, fine 

 flavour ; first-class winter fruit. This 

 is a short sketch of my favorite apple. 

 Note, I never really intended to n;uue 

 it after myself, V)ut by my showing 

 these lovely apples to friends and 

 strangers, I did always say that this 

 kind is my favorite apple, and then 

 from other people from time to time 

 the present name of Hoover's Favorite 

 (or the Hoover's) was altogether ap- 

 plied, without any regard of its old 

 name of Lady Washington, which I 

 generally gave as its original name, ■ 

 and which has been known for years 

 gone, and the word favorite will only 

 V)e used by me and whoever chooses it 

 as a fancy name. Will you kindly find 

 space in your valuable monthly to in- 



