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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Canadian growers, through our ad- 

 vertising cohimns, some reUable apple 

 merchants both in Montreal and in 

 England, and thus put our readers in 

 the way of placing their apples in the 

 best possible hands. At the same 

 time we would advise all small 

 growers to sell their fruit at home at 

 any fair price, rather than to try the 

 doubtful chance of consignments to 

 a distant market. 



The English Woodbine. — The 

 Garden and Forest speaks as follows 

 regarding this climber: " It is sur- 

 prising that the EngUsh Woodbine 

 {Lonicera Periclymenium) is not 

 more generally grown in the gardens 

 of this country. It is one of the most 

 beautiful of all the climbing honey- 

 suckles— a perfectly hardy plant, and 

 the delicious fragrance of the flowers 

 is unequalled. The flowers are 

 pale-red externally with yellow 

 throats, and are produced from the 

 ends of the branches in closely 

 sessile heads which are stalked above 

 the upper pairs of leaves, which are 

 closely sessile though not united. 

 This is a widely distributed plant, 

 from Scandinavia to the shores of 

 the Mediterranean." The "Dutch 

 Monthly " is a variety of this plant, 

 so named, it is said, because it 

 originated in one of the Dutch 

 nurseries. The flowers are rather 



darker than those of the species. 

 These honeysuckles flower quite 

 continuously during the summer 

 months, and there are no more 

 charming plants to train over the 

 porch or verandah of a dwelling 

 house, that the fragrance of their 

 flowers may be enjoyed constantly. 



The grape crop along the Hudson 

 river, according to the New York 

 Herald, has been thinned out at least 

 one half by the unusually heavy 

 rains that fell about the beginning of 

 last month. Even the Concords 

 were shelled off to the ground like 

 snowflakes. Truck gardeners com- 

 plain of very heavy losses, as well as 

 farmers generally. Strange that such 

 heavy and continuous rains should 

 have fallen in Eastern New York 

 State and along the coast of New 

 Jersey, and that we in Ontario should 

 be suffering from such a long con- 

 tinued drouth, that our raspberry 

 crop was cut short and our crop of 

 Kittatinny blackberries are dried up 

 completely on heavy ground. These 

 circumstances, following the frost of 

 May 2gth, have resulted in high 

 prices for all small fruits ; and the 

 prospects are that those vineyards 

 escaping the mildew, the frost and 

 other calamities, will bring their 

 owners satisfactory returns. 



QUESTION DRAWER 



The Yellows. 



70. The last two years the peaches on one 

 of my peach trees have grown to the size of 

 marbles and then stopped growing altogether, 

 and of course never ripened. Can you tell me 

 the cause, and also the cure if any ? — W. W. 

 R , Toronto. 



We think your tree must be affected 

 with the yellows, which often shows 

 itself b}^ the symptoms which you 

 mention. The disease is usually 

 recognized by (i) the premature 



ripening of the fruit. Sometimes this 

 occurs on a single limb only, but, 

 within a 3'ear or so, it affects all parts 

 of the tree. (2) The next mark is 

 the singular color of the fruit when 

 ripe, it being mottled and dotted 

 exteriorly with red, and on the inside 

 the flesh is also streaked with red ; 

 while that about the stone is wholly 

 dyed that color. (3) The third mark 

 is the growth of summer shoots of a 

 dwarfed and feeble appearance ; and 



