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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



SUPERB RASPBERRY. 

 Mr. Purdy says that this berry is 

 " the best, largest, and most prolific 

 raspberry" on his groimds. It is far 

 from being the largest, or best, or most 

 prolific on the grounds of the editor 

 of the Canadian Horticulturist. The 

 Cuthbert excels it in all these particu- 

 lars on our s;rounds. 



PEACHES AT KINCARDINE. 



We have received a peach grown at 

 Kincardine, that in point of size, beauty 

 of appeai-ance and excellence of flavor 

 plainly shows that good peaches can 

 surely be grown at that place. The 

 tree from which it was taken, we are 

 informed by Mr. Joseph Barker of Kin- 

 cardine, is growing in the garden of 

 Mr. Vj. Miller of that town; that it 

 originated from a peach-stone thrown 

 out of a window, and was transplanted 

 when one year old. The tree is now 

 six years old, thrifty and healthy. 

 When it was three years old it bore 

 five large peaches, the following year 

 the fruit was destroyed by a late spring 

 frost, last year it bore about a bushel of 

 handsome peaches for which Mr. Miller 

 was offered $5, and this year it pro- 

 duced 50 tine peaches. 



The peach-stones from this tree 

 ought to be planted and the trees that 

 spring from them carefully preserved 

 until tliey fruit, when those that yield 

 fruit of satisfactory size and quality and 

 ripening in good season, can be multi- 

 plied by propagation to any desired ex- 

 tent. In this way a race of hardy peach 

 trees can be obtained suited to the cli- 

 mate of that part of the country* It 

 seems to us that this seedling, which 

 very much resembles the white-fleshed 

 rare-ripe peaches that have been grown 

 in this vicinity, should be propagated 

 and planted in other localities in that 

 neigliborhood in order to ascertain 

 what is its ability to endure the pecu- 

 liar climate of that x-eirion. But the 



opportunity to raise a number of seed- 

 lings from a tree yielding fruit of such 

 excellence should not be lost, for it is 

 in this way that trees of more hardy 

 constitution than those grown even 

 here can be secured, trees that are 

 adapted to a more northern latitude. 



THE CHERRY SLUG. 

 This pest has been iiniisually abund- 

 ant in the county of Lincoln during the 

 past summer. Pyrethrum, known also 

 as Persian Insect Powder, dusted over 

 them in the dry powder or mixed with 

 water in the proportion of a tablespoon- 

 ful to a pailful of water, and sprayed 

 over the ti'ees with a fountain-puni]), is 

 a perfect remedy and will clean the 

 trees of the creatures. It should be 

 applied as soon as they make their ap- 

 pearance and not after they have skele- 

 tonized the leaves so that the tree looks 

 brown. 



THE EARLY VICTOR GRAPE. 



George W. Campbell, of Ohio, in a 

 paper presented at the last meeting of 

 the Mississippi Valley Horticultural 

 Society, says of this grai)e that it has 

 stood all tests admirably ; that he has 

 had it in bearing for thi-ee years and 

 finds it one of the most reliable grapes 

 he has, either new or old ; that it is 

 healthy in fruit, vine and foliage, pro- 

 ductive, pleasant-flavored, without foxi- 

 ness, and really good ; that its color is 

 black, its size about that of the Clinton, 

 and that it ripens early, just about the 

 same time as Moore's Early. 



On the grounds of your editor this 

 grape ripened this season with Cham- 

 pion, Moore's Early and Jessica. This 

 is the first time the vines have fruited 

 here, having only been phxnted a year 

 ago last April. The clusters and ber- 

 ries closely resemble those of the Clin- 

 ton. There is more firmness to the 

 pulp than in the Clinton, yet the flavor 

 is sweeter and more pleasant than that. 



