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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



affected some of 1113^ peai-s and plums, 

 but my apples are flourishing well. One 

 Flemish Beauty pear tree close to the 

 Duchess d'Angouleme tree is laden with 

 fruit. My apple crop will be very 

 light, but cherries and plums, for the 

 number of bearing trees, will be very 

 plentiful. Potatoes are doing well 

 here and have escaped the bug fairly 

 well so far. The root crops, carrots 

 and onions in particular, are very poor. 

 What corn I have seen planted here 

 looks very flourishing. Thanking you 

 for bringing our section of the country 

 into prominence by the insertion of my 

 letter, as it is at present not much 

 known from being so recently opened 

 up, believe me, 



I i-emain yours sincerely, 



E. A. Carver. 

 Colpoy's Bay. 



REPORT FROM THE COLD NORTH. 



Mr. Editok, — Another year having 

 completed its course, I herewith hand 

 in my report of last winter's inroads on 

 my ah-eady too limited list of " Haixly 

 Fruit Trees." The past season was 

 quite as severe as any we are likely to 

 have, and proved to be a real test- 

 winter for our locality. 



Notwithstanding the intensity of the 

 cold, the mercury freezing in the bulb 

 of the thermometer, the Wealthy, 

 Duchess of Oldenburg, Yellow Trans- 

 parent, Tetofsky, Scott's Winter, Peach 

 of Montreal, and Alexander, with me 

 all cami^ througli without the loss of a 

 single bud. I hardly know what to say 

 of Magog Red Streak, as it was some- 

 what affected, but still it is fruiting and 

 I have good hopes that it may yet come 

 out all right. 



I fear, }iowo\er, that we sliall be 

 obliged to stiike the Mcintosh Red 

 from the list that will endui-e a tem- 

 perature of 40 ' below zero, as last season 

 proved them to be among the list of 

 almost- hardy-enough varieties. It is 



only fair to state that none of these in 

 my orchard are dead, but with one 

 single exception all are more or less 

 injured. Perhaps we should give it 

 another trial before we discard it 

 altogether. The following, however, 

 went completely, viz., Mann, Stump, 

 Snow, Hastings and Haas. I might 

 mention that at the meeting of our 

 Local Association, held last week, very 

 favourable reports were given in of the 

 Pewaukee and Walbridge. 



PLUMS 



In these the inroads have been 

 numerous indeed. 



First of all that " tree of trees," the 

 one upon which we in the north had 

 been induced to count so much, viz., 

 the Moore's Arctic, have every one died 

 to the ground. My Green Gages have 

 also all gone to accompany them, as 

 well as my most promising Lombards, 

 and my healthy and vigorous Coe's 

 Golden Drop. 



Prince Englebert tried hard to 

 weather the storms, but it eventually 

 failed and had to be rooted out. My 

 White, as well as my Red Magnum- 

 bonums, sharing the same late. 



Of all my stock one alone is left unto 

 me, and that one, though not in by 

 any means too promising a condition, 

 is Glass' Seedling. 



Now, if any of your i-eaders have a 

 l)lue, white or yellow plum that will 

 withstand a tempeiature of 40° below 

 zero, I foi- one would bo pleased to have 

 thea) state the fact in the H<yrticuUurist 

 that I may go and purchase one like- 

 wise. 



Tlio Russian Mulberiies, I fear, are 

 also too tender, as the two I have and 

 the one owned >)y another gentleman 

 here have all been killed back more or 

 less every year for thr-ee years. I now 

 well nigh des})air of ever tasting any of 

 tin's fruit of my own growing, although 

 they may Anally get acclimatized and 

 do better than they have hitherto done. 



