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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



whole tree and I gave the six Vicars up 

 for dead. However, I looked at them 

 to-day — it is about a fortnight ago that 

 I pruned them — and am now in hopes 

 they may after all pull through. 

 Strange to say every other variety 

 pruned in exactly the same way took no 

 harm, though pruned near the same 

 time, some the very same day ; more- 

 over all these Vicars were strong, 

 vigorous-looking young trees. Can you 

 explain this I Is it on account of the 

 Vicars being thrifty gi-owers ? But, 

 strange to say, the Olapp's Favorite and 

 Flemish Beauty, which also made very 

 thiifty growth last year, were not 

 aftected by my pruning. Peaches were 

 all doing well till the early rising of the 

 sap in March, as in the case of the 

 plum trees, exposed them to being 

 nipped off by the frosts in April. 



My soil is a warm, sandy and grav- 

 elly loam, where the apples, plums, and 

 peaches are, but a gravelly clay loam 

 where my pears are. In both cases 

 there is a limestone bottom. 



In my old orchai-d consisting of 300 

 trees, about 150 planted 8 years ago, 

 the apples, excepting Snows and Duch- 

 esses, do not show much signs of fruit. 

 My four Flemish Beauties and two out 

 of three Clapp's Favorites, promise to 

 be laden with fruit ; three Bartletts, 

 two Bloodgoods, one Loui.se Bonne and 

 one Clapp's Favorite, promise to bear 

 fairly. 



There are three Duchess d' Angoul- 

 eme, 8 years planted, and about twenty 

 feet high, that have never borne and 

 show no .signs of it yet. "Would you 

 do anything to make them Vjear 1 



E. A. C. 



Note by the Editor. — Duchess 

 pear trees of that size and age would be 

 bearing fruit in the County of Lincoln. 

 Why do they not bear at Colpoy's Bay ? 



Ai'c they yet growing so very fast that 



they do not form blossom buds, or are 

 the flower-buds killed by the cold of 

 winter so that they never open ? Or 

 do the trees bloom but fail to set their 

 fruit '? Will our esteemed correspon- 

 dent throw what light he can on this 

 subject ? It may be that when we 

 have learned the cause of their failing 

 to fruit some remedy can be suggested- 



HARDY ROSES. 



The following list of the best hardy 

 roses as continuous bloomei'S, for out- 

 door culture, and of the best hardy roses 

 adapted to genei'al cultivation, is recom- 

 mended by the committee appointed by 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 to prepare the same. 



Continuous Bloomers — Alfred Colomb, 

 Annie Wood, Boieldieu, Caroline de 

 Sansal, Fisher Holmes, Francois Mi- 

 chelon. Gen. Jacqueminot, Marie Bau- 

 mann, Mme. Victor Verdier, Mons. E. 

 Y. Teas, Pierre dotting. Rev. J. B. M. 

 Camm, Xavier Oiibo. *Charles Darwin, 

 '■'Countess of Oxford, *Dr. Sewell, *Mar- 

 guerite de St. Amande, * President 

 Thiers. 



The last five ^^marked with stars) are 

 fine, constant bloomers, l)ut liable to 

 mildew. 



Hardy Hoses /or Gerieral Cultivation. 

 — Alfi'ed Colomb, Anna de Diesbach, 

 Annie Wood, Baron de Bonstetten, 

 Baroness Rothschild, Charles Lefebvre, 

 Duke of Edinburgh, Etienne Levet, 

 Fisher Holmes, Frangois Michelon,Gen. 

 Jacqueminot, John Hopper, Jules Mar- 

 gotten, La Rosi^re, Marie Baumann, 

 Marquise de Castellane, Maurice Ber- 

 nardin, Mme. Gabriel Ijuizet, Mme. 

 HippolyteJamain, Mme. Victor Verdier, 

 Mons. Boncenne, Mons. E. Y. Teas, 

 Paul Neyron, Rev. J. B. M. Camm, 

 Thomas Mills, * Louis Van Houtte, 

 * Mile. Marie Rady, * Pierre Notting. 



The last three (marked with stars) 



