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THE CANADIAN aORTICULTURlSt. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

 Mooke's Early Grape.— We are grow- 

 incr very fond of Moore's Early Grape It 

 is no better than Concord in quality ; but 

 it ripens up fully before any other of our 

 crrapes, and we eat it and enjoy it, because 

 we have no better grapes to eat and en]oy. 

 —Rural Neiv Yorker. 



\TLANTio Stuawbrkky.— The readers 

 of^the Canadian Horfknlturistweve pre- 

 sented with a colored plate of this straw- 

 berry in the January number. The FMral 

 Neiv Yorker says of it :-" We can not 

 say much in favour of this variety, it is 

 moderately prolific, berries firm and ot 

 fair quality, medium to late. 



The Tyler Raspberry.— The Tyler, 

 without any exception, is the most 

 abundant bearer on our place, ripening 

 early and holding out to the last. If we 

 were confined to but one sort, it would be 

 this The dift\a'ent sorts are ripening 

 together this year more than we ever 

 knew them before. We are unable to 

 account for it.— A. M. Purdy, m Frmt 

 Recorder. 



Aphides or Plant Lice.— Prof. Glaser, 

 of Germany, recommends the following 

 for killing lice on plants :— Dissolve 2 

 ounces of soft soap in half-pmt rain- 

 water, make an infusion of 1| oz. tobacco 

 in half-pint water, mix together ; add Z^ 

 oz fusil-oil, and half-pint of methylated 

 spirit, and make up the mixture to a 

 quart Sprinkle the leaves of infected 

 trees with it, and it will kill the lice with- 

 out injuring the plants. 



The Gregg Raspberry.— If there is a 

 black raspberry on earth superior to the 

 GrecrjT, for large size, productiveness, late- 

 nesb^\nd for the market stand or evapor- 

 ating, we would like to see it, and would 

 willfnf'ly give one thousand dollars for one 

 thousand plants. Talk about the Ohio. As 

 the saying is, " it can'tholdacandletoit. 

 We are drying them in our Williams 

 evaporator and getting one pound from 2;j 

 to 21 quarts of fruit. -A. M. Purdy, in 

 Fruit Recorder. 



New Flowering Thorn.— A new hy- 

 brid thorn {Oratceyus Currierei). The fir.st 

 number of the Rtvue Horticole for March 

 gives a beautifully and delicately executed 



plate of the above named charming addi- 

 tion to our hardy shrubberies, which is 

 now being sent out by the well-known 

 French nurserym? ■ ^^ Baltet, of Troyes. 

 It was raised by M. E.'A. Carriere, when 

 head of the propagating department of the 

 Paris Museum of Natural History, from 

 a seed of Crataegus mexicana, and is said 

 to be extremely hardy, the severe winter 

 of 1879-80 having left it entu'ely unm- 

 iured It is valuable for its handsome 

 bunches of large white flowers with con- 

 spicuous red-tipped anthers, produced 

 freely about the middle of May, for the 

 bronzy copper red tints assumed by its 

 folia^re in autumn, and for its handsome 

 and brilliantly colored berries resembling 

 in color those of the common Arbutus, 

 but of a somewhat brighter hue. All 

 these points are clearly set forth m the 

 plate, half of which was painted m spring 

 and half in autumn.— T/ic Garden. 



A New Cherry.— Mr. James Dougall, 

 livin-- in Ontario, Canada, has a new 

 seedfing cherry named The Dougall, m 

 honor of the raiser. It is a seedling ot 

 the Early Purple Guigne, a variety weU 

 known to the fruit growers as an eai-ly 

 and profitable cherry. The fruit of The 

 Dougall is ripe about a week before that 

 of its parent, and is larger and faner 

 flavored. The tree is noted for its hardi- 

 ness and vigor of growth, and as being a 

 most abundant bearer. The specimens 

 sent us show its great fruitfulness, and 

 also the large size and vigor of its folia,ge. 

 The fruit is of the darkest purple color, 

 almost black, with a remarkably juicy 

 flesh of great richness. We accidentally 

 discovered a quality of the fruit for which 

 the raiser makes no claim. It is a re- 

 markable keeper. A number of loose 

 cherries were, by chance, left m the box, 

 and when discovered a week or more atter 

 their arrival, save a slight shrivelling of 

 the skhi, they were unchanged ihere 

 were no indications of decay. We hope 

 the Dougall may retain the good qualities 

 shown by the original tree. The " Wind- 

 sor," another of Mr. Dougall's seedlinga, 

 has already received the attention of truit 

 crrowers. We are glad to see a renewed 

 fnterest in the cherry, which of late years 

 has been much neglected.— ^mertcau 

 Agriculturist for September. ^ 



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