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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



"wei'e threshed out and we got 20 lbs. of 

 peas. About half the seed was sown 

 in the field, these in the garden ; the 

 former was entirely devoured, so these 

 20 lbs. were the product of about one 

 pint after the birds had their share, 

 probably three-fourths. I never tasted 

 them. 



The Hon. Marshall P. AVilder says 

 of the pea : " It is very productive and 

 a splendid acquisition, of most excellent 

 habit, early, with very full pods, sweet 

 and luscious." 



As it branches out, as Bliss says, to 

 a veritable bush, the peas have to be 

 planted 6 to 8 inches apart. Although, 

 it is said, it will when well hoed do 

 without brusliing, it is better with it. 

 This, and the difficulty of planting 8 in. 

 apart, is an objection. Perhaps it 

 might be profitable as a field pea sowed 

 broadcast. 



As to the profitableness of growing 

 peas green for market I have no ex- 

 perience, but think there can be no 

 m.oney in it. Last year I sold 12 bush. 

 American Wonder for seed for $60, off 

 .about one-half acre in drills. 



Toinatoes. — I can highly recommend 

 the Mayflower. Very early, large, 

 perfectly smooth, beautiful bright red, 

 rich flavor, and veiy productive. I 

 distributed a few packages of the seed 

 at our meeting to our Directors. Al- 

 though the Editor says I am an austere 

 man, they need be afraid of neither me 

 nor them, but go hide them in the 

 •earth and let us have their report 

 •when the time comes. 



Currants. — When the March num- 

 ber of the Horticulturist, which con- 

 tained a picture of Fay's Prolific Red 

 Currant, reached England, I was asked 

 if such were the currants we grew in 

 Canada. Of cour.se I answered in the 

 -affirmative. They look well on paper ; 

 I have not yet fruited them. I bought 

 one small bush in 1882. Last spring 



I divided all the new wood of three 

 small bushes into cuttings, three eyes 

 in each, planted them in pots in the 

 hot-bed, and thirty out of thirty-one 

 lived and are now fine thrifty plants. 



Beets. — The Egyptian beet, I think, 

 yet stands first on the list for earliness. 

 I tried this year Burpee's Imperial 

 Blood Turnip, and can recommend it as 

 an excellent summer beet. The cook 

 complains of it being too large for the 

 pot. At one of our meetings a member, 

 as a cure for this, recommended sowing 

 later, and at intervals, I have tried it 

 with good results. 



Grapes. — The first time for several 

 years our stock, consisting of Champion 

 (if it is a grape) Concord, Hartford, 

 Delaware, Salem, Massasoit, Agawam, 

 Brighton, Wilder and Moore's Early 

 have all I'ipened. The three first- 

 named have never failed to ripen. 

 Although the others ripened this year 

 we still hope to have some kinds we 

 can depend on ripening in our cold 

 north about the middle of September. 



The Spot on the Apple Tree. — Whe- 

 ther or not the committee appointed to 

 experiment on the application of vari- 

 ous substances likely to act as a preven- 

 tative to the disease made their report, 

 I am unable to say ; if they did it must 

 have been when I was absent. 



I am sorry to say my appliances 

 were very unsuccessful. I tried dry 

 unleached ashes thrown over the trees 

 when the dew was on, unslacked lime 

 in the same way, sulphur stirred in 

 water and syringed, and sulphate of 

 soda in the same way, but I could see 

 no difference on trees so treated from 

 the adjoining ones. My neighbors say 

 their orchards are freer from the spot 

 than usual, while some of them say 

 they are entirely so. I see little im- 

 provement in mine ; in an orchard of 

 sOO trees I think I have about 1,000 

 bushels of Fameuse nearly worthless. 



