Till' Ca)iadiaii Horticulturist. 



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Well, let us see. Many men of 

 small incomes spend five, ten or 

 twenty cents a day in tobacco or 

 cigars. Some far more. Five cents 

 a day saved, and at the end of each 

 year put to interest at five per cent., 

 would at the end of ten years amount 

 to $202.50, twenty years !ii>56o, 

 twenty-five years, $815. Ten cents 

 a day so treated would in the same 

 periods respectively amount to !?405, 

 .'f>i,i2o, and $1,630. Twenty cents a 

 ilay would amount to $gio, $2,240, 

 and $3,260. Now I do not wish to 

 raise the question whether the use of 

 tobacco is good or bad — what moral 

 or immoral qualities may attach to 



the practice of lillin;^ the mouth with 

 smoke for the purpose of blowing it 

 out again ; but suppose all said in its 

 favor to be true (which may be ques- 

 tioned), is it worth as much as the 

 home which the sums named might 

 procure, or is its value a sufficient 

 reason why a man should deprive 

 himself and his family of a home of 

 their own for all the succeeding years 

 of their life ? The possession of a cot- 

 tage home with pleasant surround- 

 ings in the suburbs of a city or in a 

 village, would confer on a family 

 many benefits besides the mere 

 value of it, on which I need not 

 dwell. 



TWO NEW SEEDLING APPLES. 



To THE SeCRKTARY OF THE F.G.A. 



OF Ontario : 

 Sir, — I send you herewith descriptions 

 of two seedling apples which have been 

 grown in a district far north in Ontario, 

 at Minden, a locality where it is com- 

 monly supposed that apples cannot be 

 successfully grown. These have been 

 sent me through the kindness of Mr. J. 

 A. Barron, M.P., who has taken much 

 interest in fruit culture in his constitu- 

 ency. As I think it is most important 

 that the good seedling apples we have in 

 Canada, especially those hardy enough 

 to grow in the colder sections of our 

 country, should be better known, and the 

 production of the new seedlings be en- 

 couraged, I beg that you will give space 

 in the columns of The Horticulturist 

 for the descriptions sent. Should any of 

 your readers have promising seedling 

 fruits, especially late keeping apples, 

 which they would like to have examined 

 and reported on, I shall be glad to receive 

 specimens from them. It is my desire 

 that we should have at the experimental 

 farms all the promising seedling fruits 



which are to be had, so that thev iiia\ 

 be tested side by side and their relative 

 merits ascertained. 



Seedling Apple, 



Groivn by Mr. T. C. Rohsoii, Mimiai. 

 Ontario. 



Size above medium ; form, oblate ; 

 color, greenish yellow, streaked and 

 splashed with red ; stem, slight and 

 short, with a deep smooth cavitv ; calvx, 

 gpen ; basin, rather deep and slightly 

 ribbed ; flesh, yellowish white, fine- 

 grained and moderately juicy, with a 

 faint aroma and a mild pleasant flavor; 

 core, rather large. A fair dessert ajiple 

 and a good cooker. Its si^e and appear- 

 ance would make it a desirable apple for 

 the north. From its form, color and 

 flavor, it is probably a seedling of Duchess 

 of Oldenburg. Season, October and 

 November. 



Skedling Apple. 



Grown hv Mr. f. M. Robertson, Mimitn. 



Out. 



Medium size, 28 in. by 2\ in. ; form, 

 oblate conic ; colour, greenish vellow, 



