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The Canadiaii Horticultnrisl. 



but had not protected, it, and it had 

 been killed. 



The great importance of winter 

 protection of strawberry plants is so 

 well known to all growers and so of- 

 ten preached up by Horticultural 

 writers that it is hardly worth while 

 to emphasise it here, except to say 

 that it is unnecessary to, apply any 

 covering before the ground has fro- 

 zen, as the danger is in the constant 

 succession of freezing and thawing, 

 which often kills the fruit buds, and 

 a good many of the plants themselves. 

 Any loose covering will answer, such 

 as straw, cornstalks or evergreen 

 boughs ; and any small fruit grower 

 who has these materials in store and 

 can spare them for the purpose, is 

 losing money if he neglect the appli- 

 cation. 



VARIETIES OF FRUIT TRUE TO NAME. 



In buying trees or plants for plant- 

 ing, it is wise to use every precau- 

 tion to obtain them true to name. 

 In nothing is it easier to be imposed 

 upon than in this, and it is a very 

 vexatious thing after waiting years 

 for the fruit of an apple tree to find 

 that it is some worthless kind, in- 

 stead of the variety ordered. In the 

 days when farmers knew little and 

 cared less about the kinds which 

 were best to plant, it was, perhaps, 

 allowable to leave it to the judg- 

 ment of the nurserymen, but now 

 that through the reports of the Ontario 

 F. G. Association, people know so well 

 which varieties are most valuable, 

 there is no excuse for those words 

 which so often appear in the agent's 

 order book, " If you have not the 



kinds ordered, please substitute some 

 others equally good." The writer 

 once planted eighty trees for Duchess 

 of Oldenburg, and his disgust can be 

 imagined, when, on their coming into 

 bearing, they proved to be eighty Ca. 

 bashea, a most unprofitable variety. 

 Determined that he would secure the 

 famous Duchess, he employed an 

 experienced grafter, to top graft that 

 variety, and lo ! when they came to 

 bear, they proved to be King o 

 Tompkins, a good enough apple, but 

 not what was wanted. He finally 

 resolved to top graft the trees him- 

 self with Duchess, and lives in hopes 

 of the correct thing some day. 



It is very important that fruits ex- 

 hibited at our fairs should be correct- 

 ly named, for these exhibitions are 

 the ver}' best means of obtaining cor- 

 rect nomenclature throughout our 

 country. To secure this end, only 

 the best qualified men should be em- 

 ployed as judges, men able to correct 

 misnomers for exhibitors. Better 

 have one capable judge than three 

 incapables. We are just in receipt 

 of a Buffum pear for name, which the 

 reader says has taken a prize for 

 Beurre D'Anjou; and here is a clip 

 from the Orillia Packet which ex- 

 plains itself. 



Mr. Henry Overend, of Medonte, 

 thinks he has got rather hard mea- 

 sure from differingjudges at the East 

 Simcoe Shows. Last year, he 

 showed " Twenty Ounce Pippins," 

 and was refused a prize because they 

 were wrongly named, one of the 

 judges stating that they were "Gra- 

 venstein." This ^^ear he was again 

 disqualified, because he called them 

 " Graven stein " instead of " Twenty 

 Ounce Pippins." 



