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only one is living. That one is a strong plant, 

 vigorous grower, and has borne a very heavy 

 crop of large berries. 



The largest one measured five inches around 

 one way and four inches and a half the other 

 way. I did not measure the diameter. It 

 was quite ripe all through and of excellent 

 flavor. I think the Jessie is all that it is 

 claimed to be. — Yours truly, Tho.mas K. 

 lludiiKS, Cote des Neiges, Montreal, Que., 

 [illy 2, jSS,). 



Turpentine for Black Knot. 



Sir, — The black knot has made its appear- 

 ance on two of my ]ilum trees. As soon as I 

 saw it I thoui^ht I would try the linseed oil, 

 but I had none at the house ; but I got some 

 spirits of turpentine that I had in the house. 

 I thought I would cure the black knot or kill 

 the tree. I applied the turpentine with a 

 feather, and in ten days the black knot was 

 killed, and the unaffected part of the tree not 

 any the worse, only where I had dropped the 

 turpentine on the leaves they turned yellow. 



Hoping this will be of use to the fruit 

 growers, I remain respectfully, Le\i Brilli.n- 

 (JER, Gollingzvood, fuly 4th, i88g. 



Off to China. 



Sir, — A line 10 say good-bye. I am off 

 two days hence for Vancouver, Yokohama, 

 Hongkong, Singapore, India, etc., so shall 

 not be at the horticultural meeting at Ottaw.i 

 next winter. I did try hard, having this in 

 view, to have the meeting held in Montreal 

 last winter. — Yours truly, C. GiBH, Abbots- 

 ford, Que., /uly ^th, i88g. 



The Crandall. 



Sir, — As to the ])roduclivenessof the Cran- 

 tlall, it this year beats all we have ever claimed 

 for it by far. Can you not come and see it 

 next week, in the interests of the Fruit 

 Growers' Association of Ontario. We think 

 it will well pay you to do so, and see for your- 

 self that the Crandall is the most productive of 

 all small fruits of any kind or name. — \'ery 

 truly yours, FuANK FoRDiV SON, Ravenna,0. 



Using Liquid Manure. 



•Sir, — I appreciate your ))ublications very 

 much, and have tried carefully many hints 

 published therein, in the cultivation of grapes, 

 strawberries antl raspbtrries, these being the 

 only fruits I have yet tried my fortune on. I 

 have this year an abundant crop of straw- 

 berries and a tine prospect for raspberries. 

 The strawberries average an extra size, many 

 measuring four to five inches in circumference. 

 The plants are exceedingly full and strong, on 

 some of which the berries just hang in clusters 



of one dozen to two dozen each, and some 

 plants have three to four clu'-ters. I received 

 the ])lants from Mr. Robinson, Owen .Sound, 

 two years ago. They were good plants, but I 

 atlriljute my success to my persistent watering 

 with litjuid manure. This hint I saw in a 

 .Scotch paper last year, that to make a success 

 of straivl'erriei, raspherricn and ros<'j use 

 li(|uid manure freely. — 1 am yours truly, J. I). 

 Henderson, Toronto, Out. 



The Conn Gooseberry. 



.Sir, — Per to-day's mail I send you four King 

 Conn gooseberries just picked to-day. I got 

 six bushes from Mr. Conn at Kemptville, one 

 year ago, and they had a few berries on last 

 year and they made good growth, and this 

 year are just covered with berries such as I 

 send you. I have Smiths and Houghton and 

 Industry growing in the same row with th^se 

 King Conns, und the others are all more or 

 less mildewed, but the Conn shows no sign of 

 mildew, and the foliage looks as though it 

 were made of green leather. I am delighted 

 with this variety and would heartily advise 

 every person to invest in a few, as they are 

 first-class in every respect. — Levi .Sei.i ick. 



Varieties of Small Fruits at London. 



.Sir : — I have three acres of Ikandywine 

 raspberries, which I think has no ec|ual on the 

 Continent. It is a large berry, firm, of excel- 

 lent quality, and hardy in every respect. I 

 have one acre of the Turner, some Cuthburt 

 and .Shaffer's Collossal, but they are nowhere 

 coinpired to the Brandywine. I have one 

 acre of the Mammoth Cluster, a splendid berry 

 and a good bearer, also some of the Kittatinny. 

 The price of raspberries at the present time in 

 the city of London, wholesale, is ten cents per 

 box ; which I think pays well indeed. I 

 intend to enlarge and set out more fruit. I 

 expect to take a trip to Grimsby and .St. 

 ( atharines this fall, and so inspect some of the 

 fruit growers' gardens in the Niagara district. 

 The (irape I received last year ma^ e a splen- 

 did growth, and the Vergennes I received this 

 spring was doing well when the heavy frost 

 took it, but it has recovered and is growing 

 nicely now. — Ja.me.sA. Pool, London East, 

 July Jjth. 



Russian Letter. 



Sir, I thank you very much for your kind 

 reply, and also for sending ine the very inter- 

 esting Report of the Fruit Groweis' Association 

 of Ontario. Will you have the kindness to 

 say to the members at the next meeting of that 

 respectable society, that I wish them to nccept 

 my best wishes for the prosperity of that body, 

 but also that I am ready at any time to send 

 them, without remuneration, some grafts and 

 seeds of our fruits, in response to any selection 



