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miles north of Toronto, in 18S1. First noticed 

 the berry as a seedling, and were so favorably 

 impressed that we picked the plants of that 

 kind, and when we moved to Watford we 

 brought a few with us and continued to in- 

 crease them, and have tested them and found 

 them perfectly hardy. All callers praise them 

 and say they are nicer than others previously 

 handed to them. They are preferred in the 

 market to anything we have. It is preferable 

 to Crescent in hardiness and flavor. The 

 plant is a vigorous upright grower, and the 

 dark, glossy green foliage covers the fruit well 

 from the sun. It is a perfect blossom and a 

 good fertilizer for Crescent. We use no other. 

 Fruit is very firm, perfect in form, inclined to 

 be wedge-shape sometimes ; color, deep crim- 

 son, pretty much same to centre when fully 

 ripe. It is of a pleasant rich flavor, and about 

 size of Crescent. It is a good shipper, firmer 

 than Crescent, and a favorite with consumers. 

 It is a few days later than Crescent. — O. F. 

 BiRCHAKD, Kingscotirt, Out. 



Big Berries. 



SiR^ — Mr. W. S.Turner, of the Cornwall 

 Manufacturing Co., is probably the most success- 

 ful amateur gardener in Cornwall, having the 

 faculty of taking an enormous quantity of stuff 

 off a limited space, which after all, is the 

 measure of a gardener's ability. Mr. Turner has 

 paid a good deal of attention to strawberries, 

 and his crop this year is something out of the 

 common. He favored us on Monday with a 

 basket which was well filled with twenty ber- 

 ries, several of which measured over six inches 

 in circumference. They are of the Jessie 

 variety, which, with the Bubach, Mr. Turner 

 considers the best variety he has struck yet. 

 They are even larger than the Sharpless, and 

 of a better shape, while the flavor is rich and 

 luscious. We would advise anybody who has 

 a strawberry patch to try Jessie. She's a 

 daisy. 



To the above I would call particular atten- 

 tion as also to another case I will cite giving 

 evidence the most conclusive, that it is the 

 thoroughly cultivated ground only, be the ex- 

 tent large or small, that pays. 



Referring readers to Mr. Turner's excellent 

 letter on Amateur Gardening, in the July num- 

 ber of the Horticulturist, which I have 

 read at the Farmers' Institute meeting at Corn- 

 wall, and feel safe in saying it was the best 

 paper on Horticultural matters laid before the 

 meeting, and none met with a more favorable 

 reception. I think because it was short, but 

 not too short to give all the information the 

 writer meant to convey. 



Pead his letter again, friends, in it you'll 

 find multuni in parvo, and I think you will 

 agree with me that I am giving Mr. Turner no 

 more than his due. — John Croil, Aultsville. 



Robson's Seedling Plum. 



To the Scci-flaiy F. G. A ., 0/ Ontario : 



Dear Sir,— Knowing how deeply you are 

 interested in any horticultural novelty, I trust 

 you will pardon me for venturing to enlist your 

 attention by describing a seedling plum which 

 I have growing in my garden, and which by 

 sheer accident I discovered it possessed the 

 property of transforming itself into a soft, 

 flexible and delicious prune perfectly cured, 

 and will keep the year round without the least 

 sign of becoming hard or dry. 



The way I discovered it was by simply 

 leaving this plum in a closet in my tool-house 

 with many others, to make an assortment for 

 our Fall show last year, and having more of 

 this kind than was wanted the balance was 

 left in a small wooden tray all the winter. 

 On opening the closet this spring I was much 

 surprized to find this plum in a perfect state of 

 preservation, very inviting in appearance, and 

 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Beall pronounced it 

 excellent in taste. 



Some of my horticultural friends think it 

 must be valuable, to dry without sun or fire 

 heat. 



I would have sent you a specimen, but, 

 having only two left, and they being in a muti- 

 lated state by opening them, to show the pit 

 and flesh to many parties. I should be much 

 pleased to have your opinion (or that of any of 

 your numerous subscribers) respecting this — to 

 me and many others a novelty in Canadian 

 plums. — Yours truly, W. M. Robson, Lindsay. 



A Correction. 



Sir, — A typographical error in my letter, 

 in the July number of the Horticulturist, 

 respecting the Larue apple, causes the name of 

 an old family in this section to appear as Snell. 

 I should be Buell. The error is not of any 

 great consequence, but as some of your readers 

 might wish to communicate with the present 

 owners of the property where the Larue apple 

 originated, it is just as well to correct it. — J. J. 

 Bell, BrockvilU, fuly, i88g. 



Fruit Prospects at Orillia. 



The frost destroyed our grape blossoms, 

 with early tomatoes and beans, but was just 

 too late to hurt the apples, which are as yet 

 quite too thick on the trees. There is a second 

 crop of grape blossoms which cannot ripen. 

 Wild plums are a full crop, which has not been 

 for years. Plenty of gooseberries, tame and 

 wild. Wild strawberries, irregular ; garden 

 ones, rather late. Pears numerous on the 

 few bearing trees. A good season for newly 

 planted trees and grafts. — J. CuPi'AGE. 



The Jessie. 



Sir, — Of the three plants, Jessie Straw- 

 berry, I received from you in the spring of '88 



