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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



do the things that ought to be done, berries and currants should be grown 

 He must have nerve to dig out as on plants of a less age than ten 

 well as to plant. Raspberries, goose- years. 



A FAMOUS APPLE TREE. 



THE Western Chronicle, Kent- 

 ville, N. S., is responsible for 

 the truth of the following extract : — 

 There is a famous apple tree on a 

 farm in Lakeville, Cornwallis, Kings 

 County, Nova Scotia, owned by Mr. 

 Joseph A. Kinsman, and purchased 

 by him in 1878 from the heirs of the 

 late Lawson Rackwell, Esq. For 

 the benefit of those wishing to know 

 the facts concerning the productive 

 powers of this famous tree, we give 

 its record for the six bearing years 

 that have elapsed since it came into 

 the possession of its present owner, 

 for which facts we are indebted to 

 that gentleman : 



In 1878 it produced 15 barrels. 

 1880 " 18 



1882 ■• 21 



1888 ■• 23 



being 118 barrels of merchantable 

 fruit produced in the six years. In 

 addition to this it has produced during 

 these same years 20 barrels of apples 

 which, owing to bruises, etc. (the 

 tree being a difficult one to pick) 

 were unfit for market. The most of 

 these apples would be among the 

 largest and finest which the tree 

 bears, and should in justice be taken 

 into account in giving statistics of 

 its productiveness." 



It would have been interesting had 

 we been told the variety of apple tree 

 giving such a famous yield ; and also 

 its age and the kind of soil upon 

 which it is growing. We are not 

 prepared, without these particulars, 

 to yield the palm, in apple culture, 

 to our Nova Scotian friends. 



On the Woolverton Homestead, at 

 Grimsby, Ont., there is a Greening 

 apple tree, nearly one hundred years 

 old, the branches of which cover an 

 area of about forty feet in diameter, 

 and which has frequently yielded 

 from seventeen to twenty barrels of 

 marketable fruit, in addition to large 

 waste from falling. The soil is a 

 deep, rich, sandy loam, situated at 

 the base of "the mountain." 



No doubt, however, that the An- 

 napolis and Gaspereau valleys of 

 Nova Scotia, are especially adapted 

 for apple culture. They contain about 

 600 square miles of ajrable land, of 

 which about one-tenth, about 40,000 

 acres, is planted with apples, and 

 about 500,000 barrels of Gravenstein, 

 King, Baldwin, etc., are exported an- 

 nually ; and these are chiefly grown 

 upon young trees not yet of bearing 



