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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



why not ? Is it not as cold in Russia, 

 Quebec, and the northern part of China, 

 where the finest ap|)Ies are raised '] I 

 shall try a few trees this spring on my 

 farm, Township 7, Kange 19 W., south 

 of the Brandon hills, and hope to re- 

 port success. Where the wild grape 

 and wild hops grow so successfully and 

 abundantly, surely the earlier kinds of 

 cultivated grape will succeed ; but it 

 will take a few years, as all that is 

 thought of now is as to who can do 

 the greatest amount of breaking and 

 gnt in the largest number of acres of 

 crops. 



Yours, &c., 



P. R. Jarvis. 

 Winnipeg, Nov. 21st, 1882. 



EXPERIENCES AT CLINTON, ONT. 

 This has been a very unfruitful sea- 

 son in our quarter. Last winter with 

 us the thermometer went down to 23 

 below zero, which was more than many 

 of our fruit trees could bear and live. 

 The unfavorable spring also did not 

 make it any better. The white Spitzen- 

 burgs are killed out. Some Rhode 

 Island Greenings, Twenty oz. Pippins, 

 Devonshire and other Pearmains are all 

 injured lessor more; some are dead. Our 

 Famense trees stood it well, but the fruit 

 is badly spotted. Our Cayugas never 

 showed a full leaf, but are living. Some 

 of our Dutch Mignonne bore well, and 

 never with us larger or finer fruit. We 

 had a few White Doyenne, but they 

 were knarly. Bartletts about the size 

 of the Dearborn's Seedling, and no 

 good. We never had finer Madelines. 

 We had a few Glout Morceaus as good 

 as I ever saw them. Steven's Genesee 

 very good. Oswego Beurre good. Yan 

 Mon's Leon Leclerk killed out ; not 

 much loss. Louise de Jersey veiy good. 

 Thos. Wiggington. 



INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 



There is to be an international exhibi- 

 tion of animals connected with Agri- 

 culture, as horses, cattle, sheep, swine, 

 bees, fish, poultry,and appliances, imple- 

 ments and machinery connected with 

 the keeping, breeding, culture or employ- 

 ment of them, to be held in Hamburg 

 in the German Empire, from the third 

 to the eleventhof July, 1883. Articles 

 for exhibition must be on the ground 

 by ten o'clock of the second of July. 



THE BID WELL STRAWBERRY. 



Mr. Roe writes to the Bural New 

 Yorker that this strawberry has again 

 surpassed everything on his place, and 



BIDWELL. 



took the lead at other places he had 

 visited. He is receiving enthusiastic 

 accounts of it from many parts of the 

 country. A Maryland man writes to 

 him that he is carrying to market fruit 

 from his Bid well plants, the berries 

 being some of the finest that it has 

 been his pleasure to see, and that he 

 intends to plant it largely this season, 

 as he finds the fruit bears transportation 

 "splendidly," while the flavor and 

 color are all that can be desired. An- 

 other writes that the Bid well excelled 

 all the varieties on his place, not only 



