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from the many, I am at a loss to 

 account for it ; but as there was a great 

 deal of spurious seed of tlie American 

 Wonder in the market, I have come to 

 the conclusion, he has fallen in with 

 some of it. To many of our members 

 I have given a sample of the pure 

 thing, and have had from them very 

 different reports from his, and have 

 now pleasure in sending him a seeding 

 of what I know to be the genuine 

 article, with the request that he will 

 give it a fair trial and us an amended 

 repoi*t. I have tried most of the favorite 

 kinds (Carter's Little Gem among the 

 rest), but till I know of a better will 

 sow no other pea than the American 

 Wonder. 



Yours sincerely. 



John Croil. 

 Aultsville, 17th Nov., 18S4. 



FRUITS IX MANITOBA. 

 The list appended shows the vai-ie- 

 ties of wild fruits grooving in the 

 different counties and the number of 

 townships reporting them. These var- 

 ieties are sti'awberries, black and red 

 raspberries, black and red currants, 

 high and low bush cranberries, fiaska- 

 toou berries, goo.seberries, red and black 

 cheri-ies, red plums, hazel nuts, blue- 

 berries, grapes, whortleberries, and 

 juneberries. Some grow in almost 

 every township, while others are rarely 

 reported. As a general thing, fruits 

 of the ordinary varieties were abundant 

 during the season, and those of the 

 berry varieties were decidedly plentiful 

 in all quarters. Among the varieties 

 of fruit cultivated, the principal ones 

 are currants, gooseberries, strawberries, 

 apples, plums, raspberries, and crab 

 apples. Of these, currants, gooseberries 

 and strciwberries ai'e the most exten- 

 sively grown and with the most success. 

 Apples have been tried in a number of 

 places, but have not been so successful, 

 owinij doubtless to the fact that the trees 



have generally been selected from more 

 southern latitudes. On this account 

 the experiments to be made with the- 

 apples now being imported from Russia 

 will be watched with interest. Rasp- 

 berries, though not so extensively cul- 

 tivated as gooseberries and strawber- 

 ries, have been grown with, encouraging 

 results. Plums, grapes and crab ap- 

 ples do not appear so widely spread or 

 so successfully grown. The dry wea^. 

 ther of the early part of this season 

 very materially affected the growth of 

 the fruit crop. 



SHEEP DESTROYING THE OURCULIO.' 

 In comparing the residts of orchai'ds- 

 pastured with sheep and those pastured 

 with hogs, the sheep have been found: 

 much the better animals for this pur- 

 pose. They eat all the fallen fruit, 

 large and small alike, and leave the 

 ground undisturbed, while the hogs 

 leave many of the smallest apples un- 

 devoured and root up the ground into 

 a very rough and undesii-able condition- 

 unless prevented by rings or some other 

 taming contrivances. This is a very 

 important consideration in pasturing a 

 plum orchard, as every disturbance of 

 the soil promotes the growth of suckers 

 until the orchard becomes a thicket.- 

 Sheep should not be allowed in the 

 orchard except during the fruit season, 

 and should be well fed, else there is 

 danger of their gnawing the bark from, 

 the trees and ruining the orchard. — 

 Farmer o,nd. Fruit Groiver. 



THE RAN"COCAS RASPBERRY. 

 This red raspbeny, now being sent out 

 by Win. H. Moon, of Pennsylvania, ia 

 said by Albert Hansell, on whose farm 

 it was fir.st discovered, to be a chance 

 seedling. " I found," says Jas. Hansell, 

 "the Rancocas in a most unfavorable 

 spot, surrounded by briers, and in every 

 way neglected. Its vigor, size and pro- 

 ductiveness led me to transplant it. 



