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■warders may consist of planting ever- 

 greens, as our beautiful towering pines, 

 &c., in the fruit grounds or about them 

 for protection against fz-osts, or the 

 supporting of fires or smudges, &c., in 

 the fruit grounds during the time of 

 expected frost, might do much good. 

 Or the forming of pools or reservoirs 

 of water on the fruit lot by their in- 

 fluence might very much lessen the 

 severe effects of frost upon the plants. 

 But above all we would advise fruit 

 growers and say to them ' ' be careful 

 in your selection of your locations." 

 Look anxiously for the fairer spots in 

 sheltered locations near large bodies of 

 water or foi-est. Those favored spots 

 of earth that we have in abundance in 

 several parts of the Province and that 

 are known to ensure good crops almost 

 every year should be diligently looked 

 after and secured for fruit culture. We 

 know that near our beautiful fresh 

 water lakes, on certain sides of their 

 shoi-es, are favored places that should 

 be wholly devoted to the interests of 

 fruit culture. Fruit growers should 

 seize upon them in colonies and by 

 means of improved processes of culture 

 should have these favored places de- 

 veloped to the fullest possible extent 

 of their capacity and by this means a 

 good supply of fruit keep up. I freely 

 offer you these suggestions on this sub- 

 ject ; they may not be wholly thrown 

 away upon you. 



Truly, B. GoTT. 



Arkona, June 10th, 1884. 



PRODUCTIVENESS OF CLINTON 



VINES. 

 A( the bottom of my garden, with 

 an eastern aspect, I have four vines 

 trained so as to form an arbor eleven 

 feet over head. In October, 1882, I 

 took off what I considered a large crop, 

 about 250 lbs. Last year I determined 

 to weigh the fruit as gathered. It 

 amounted to 335 lbs., not including 



what the " small boy" stole. The 

 length of the trellis is not more than 

 42 feet. A large pi-oportion of the 

 bunches measured nine and ten inches 

 in length, the system of pruning 

 adopted being principally long-rod. 



Wm. R. Hughes. 

 32 Metcalfe Street. 



FRUIT-GROWING AT COLPOY'S BAY. 



Dear Sir, — It may be of interest to 

 know how I have succeeded with the 

 young frviit trees planted last year. 

 The weather was most favorable to me 

 all through the year. I had tine cool 

 weather for planting, with wet follow- 

 ing soon after, and again the summer 

 was moist and cool. 



The trees, especially the plums and 

 pears, made a good start for the most 

 part, and are thriving well. The warm 

 weather during the last fortnight in 

 March this yeai", succeeded by the 

 severe frosts in the early part of April, 

 the thermometer going down very often 

 to 7° above zero, seriously affected all 

 my plums, peaches, nectarines, apricots 

 and quinces, and killed some. That 

 this was the cause and not the severity 

 of the winter, I can unhesitatingly 

 aver, as when I went through my oi'- 

 chard on the 28th of March, these 

 trees wei'e exhibiting beautiful bright 

 red shoots, strong and healthy, and at 

 the end of the very next week the 

 shoots, shortly before so fresh and 

 bright, wei-e disfigured and blackened. 

 Not one plum, peach or quince tree 

 escaped entirely scatheless, but nearly 

 all the plum trees have completely re- 

 covered, only here and there showing 

 some dead leaf buds and ends of shoots 

 withered away. 



I lost six dwarf Vicars, but I should 

 state that they wei-e in every case 

 affected badly by my pruning, though I 

 only pruned them slightly. The very 

 next day they turned black, and the 

 blackness seemed to spread through the 



