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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Blight and cracking of the Pear, Apple 

 Rusts, etc. In speaking of the best 



NEW FRUITS 



Mr. Van Deman recommends the Jeffries 

 as the choicest early apple known to him ; a 

 chance seedling from Pennsylvania. It is 

 medium in size, skin smooth, yellow, profuse- 

 ly covered wfth carmine stripes and crimson 

 splashes. Season, August and September in 

 the middle states. 



Of pears, he speaks favorably of the Wil- 

 der, a small pear of excellent quality, which 

 originated in New York State, and which 

 ripens in August in that state. Of the Idaho 

 he says it is of real value, and recommends 

 it for extensive trial. He describes this 

 pear as follows: — "Size of fruit, 4 to 4^ 

 inches in diameter; shape, a little flattened, 

 tapering slightly both ways from the centre, 

 quite irregular, depressed at the stem ; sur- 

 face rough and uneven, yellow or straw 

 color, with a faint blush or brownish red on 

 the sunny side, and a few bronzed blotches ; 

 dots minute and dark and very numerous ; 

 basin, deep, flaring, very irregular or ribbed, 

 and thickly covered with fine brown dots ; 

 cavity, medium abrupt, irregular ; stem, 

 stout and rather long ; core very small ; seeds 

 few ; flesh, almost white, fine grained, 

 buttery, melting, lacks the grit so often found 

 in pears ; flavor, sweet to mild sub-acid, rich 

 and aromatic, juicy ; quality, very good ; 

 season, September in Idaho. 



The book is well illustrated with expensive 

 colored plates, illustrating the subjects 

 treated of, and is a volume well worthy of 

 preservation for future reference. 



Transactions of the Iowa Horticul- 

 tural Society for 1888. Secretary, Geo. 



Van Houten, Lennox, Iowa. A volume of 

 494 pages, with many interesting papers and 

 discussions, from which we hope to draw- 

 material for the benefit of our readers. 



Proceedings of the Fourteenth An- 

 nual Meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion OF Nurserymen held at Chicago, 1889. 

 Chas. Green, Rochester, Secretary. This 

 Report of 114 pages proves this Association 

 to be a live body. The interests of the 

 nurseryman and the fruit grower are more 

 closely allied than some seem willing to 

 admit, and their presence and aid in our 

 discussions are almost indispensable. 



Nova Scotia Provincial Crop Report, 

 July, 1889. This crop report does not pre- 

 tend to the exactitude of a census, but is 

 intended to give the public immediate and 

 valuable information concerning the crops at 

 a time when it would be most useful, leaving 

 it for the census to give complete and exact 

 returns of the actual crop harvested. Of 

 Annapolis county, one of the principal apple 

 growing regions, for instance, this Report 

 gives the quality of the winter fruit about an 

 average of former years, but the quantity 

 about 50 per cent, of the usual average. 

 Kings and Gravenstein, however, promised a 

 full crop. 



T. C. Robinson's Fall Catalogue and Price 

 List of Small Fruits, Grapevines, Fruit 

 Trees, and Selected Ornamental Shrubs, 

 Owen Sound, Ont, 



William Brother's Tropical Seed Cat- 

 alogue, for Planters, Agriculturists. Horti- 

 culturists, Nurserymen, Seedsmen and Flor- 

 ists in all parts of the world. Heneratgoda, 

 Ceylon. 



