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THE CANADIAN HORI'ICULTURIST. 



HARDY BLACKBERRIES. 



In re|)ly to jour enquiry as to how 

 Snyder, Taylor and Wallace blackberries 

 have stood the cold of January 5th — 

 when the mercury here indicated 25° 

 below zero — it gives nie pleasure to say 

 that at least two of them, Snyder and 

 Wallace, are uninjured, and promise a 

 full crop during the coming season. 

 Taylor's Prolific is somewhat injured, 

 but will likely produce half a crop. 

 Early Harvest is killed to the snow 

 line, and Western Triumph and Kitta- 

 tinny have fared but little better. 

 Stone's Hardy promises to be as hardy 

 as Snyder. About half the Early Rich- 

 mond cherry buds are killed ; peach 

 buds all dead ; Concord, Clinton and 

 Worden grapes in good condition ; 

 apples ditto ; black raspberries much 

 injured ; i-eds, like Thwack, Turner and 

 Cuthl)ert, alive to the tips; strawberries 

 in excellent condition. — Cor. Farmer 

 art'/ Fruit Grower. 



THK FAMEUSE OR SNOW APPLE. 



The Faraeuse is an apple of Lower 

 Canada, and grows in great perfection 

 upon the Island of Montreal in and 

 around the city and vicinity. It is the 

 favorite dessert apple of the Montreal 

 people, and the market price is more 

 often above than below $3 per barrel. 

 There the Fameuse thrives in perfection, 

 being larger and fairer, and the trees 

 more long lived than anywhere else. 

 Part of this is due to the soil, which is 

 deep and rich yet not very heavy. The 

 Fameuse cannot l»e successfully grown 

 on a strong clay soil. It likes lime- 

 stone, and the only place where it does 

 nearly as well as at Montreal is on the 

 islands and sliores of Lake Cham plain, 

 which is a limestone basin. But as the 

 soil is not so deep and moist there as on 

 the St. Lawrence, the fruit does not 

 grow so large. But at its best the 

 Fameuse can only be called a medium 



apple in .size, and usually only a small 

 medium. 



Where the Fameuse is not perfectly 

 at home it begins to show its faults as 

 a market apple. It becomes too small 

 and begins to be scabby. This is the 

 trouble with us here. I have about 

 sixty bearing ti'ees, and usually only 

 from one-half to two-thirds of the crop 

 is marketable. But as the Fameuse is 

 a prolific bearer and the fruit is here 

 very much liked and greatly in demand, 

 it still aftbrdsa profit. -Dr. Hoskins in 

 The Home Farm. 



WHORTLEBERRIES. 



I have been experimenting with the 

 whortleberry now for five years. I find 

 them to grow finely under cultivation, 

 and there is no discount on their bear- 

 ing qualities. It takes them long to get 

 well established in their new quarters 

 (some three yeai'S or more), but after 

 this they begin to bear profusely and 

 will increase every year for a lifetime, 

 I suppose, and every year the crop is 

 heavier and the berries are much larger 

 than in their native wild state. 



The stools keep spreading on all sides 

 all the time from shoots, like the hazel, 

 and when they get too many these can 

 be removed for starting new plantings. 

 There is no difticulty in getting them 

 to grow, if done properly ; that is, take 

 up as much of the old roots as possible 

 when removed from the woods, and 

 they should not be exposed long to the 

 wind or sunshine to dry out the roots. 

 I find this to be the great trouble in 

 transplanting them from the woods — 

 suft'ering the roots to get dry. I have 

 some that I got from Michigan that 

 bore a few berries last sunmier, the 

 second season after set ting ; these were 

 nice large berries but a great deal 

 softer than our native kinds. We have 

 two distinct kinds here. One is a tall 

 grower, with red twigs and oblong fi-iiit, 

 and very blue ; the other a low bush or 



