211 



TJie Canadian Horticulturist. 



readers of the "Canadian Horticul- 

 turist,"' and I propose to name it, 

 " Koslov bush Morello." See fig. 58. 

 The mother trees, which are in the 

 gardens of the cultivator, are fifteen 

 years old, have a height of one metre* 

 and a half, the diameter of the very 

 large head is two and a half metres, 

 the trunk is three and a half inch. 

 That tree flowers very late and gives 

 without rest, each year, from twenty 

 to thirty-five kilogrammes! of fruit, 

 which ripen about the end of August, 

 a time when there are very few cher- 

 ries in the market, which is an ad- 

 vantage from a commercial point of 

 view. The fruit is large, the surface 

 is polished and of a brilliant color, 

 the flavor is an agreeable acid, the 

 flesh is juicy and the pit small. The 

 originator does not grow this cherry by 

 grafting, but from the pits, because, 

 in grafting, this cherry loses in 

 quality. The plants grown from 

 pits do not vary, and after three or 

 four times transplanting, bear fruit 

 at the age of four or five years. The 

 tree delights in shady places and is 

 not affected by the cold, having 

 already endured 35 Rea.]: (46 Fahr.) 

 without any injury. I beg you to 

 pay attention to this early fruit. 



III. 

 There are some varieties of pears 

 which can endure the rigorous climate 

 of the north, of which I may men- 



* A metre is 39.368 American inches. — Ed. 

 Horticulturist. 



t A kilogramme is about 2\ pounds avoir- 

 dupois. — Ed. Horticulturist. 



X Reaumur's scale of grading the tempera- 

 ture is chiefly confined to Russia ; in it the 

 freezing point of water is made o , and the 

 boiling point 80'. — Ed. Horticulturist. 



tion the following : Bessemianka 

 Tonkovieska, Volga-Bergamotte, and 

 some others. They are of no great 

 value, but they are cultivated because 

 the better pears are tender. Lately, 

 attention has been called to some 

 varieties of pears from Lithuania 

 little known here, viz: " Beurre 

 Slutsk " and "Bon Chretien So- 

 biesky." These are dessert fruits 

 and not yet tested with respect to 

 hardiness. Two pomologists, so far 

 as I know, are occupied in the accli- 

 matisation of some varieties of table 

 pears, imported from foreign coun- 

 tries, viz : our renowned connoisseur 

 of Russian fruits, Mr. A. Grell, of 

 Moscow, and Mr. Mithourine, in the 

 Province of Tambow ; and their ex- 

 perience appears to me exceedingly 

 instructive. I think it very suitable 

 to quote a passage from one of Mr. 

 Mithourine's letters. Here is what 

 he says about the past winter and 

 the hardiness of pears: "The past 

 winter at Koslov has been unusually 

 severe ; it began wdthout snow and 

 found the trees still in foliage. The 

 first cold was about 15 degrees 

 Rea., and in the month of February 

 it touched 32 Rea. ; and as a result 

 all the pears have been frozen'. The 

 following kinds have endured this 

 severity without any special protec- 

 tion, viz.: Foreign varieties: Princess 

 Royale, Beurre gris d'Ete, Beurre 

 Six, Champagne longue. Souvenir de 

 congres. Russian varieties : Beurre 

 blanc de Livonie, Beurre verte de 

 Livonie, Kvoschtchinskaia, Berga- 

 motte rouge, Medviedievka. It is 

 astonishing that any of the Bessemi- 

 anka should have survived." 



