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solid wood, shouM be ground well 

 drained, mixed with gravel ridge soil, 

 da;/, sand (did muck are not sutiicient. 

 In this kind of soil there is not the 

 right kind of element for tiie growth 

 and health of the tree. There is not 

 the right kind of element to form hard 

 wooil. If your ground has no stone in 

 it draw a cart load of gravelly I'idge 

 ground and spread it round about each 

 tree, and add with it one peck of slacked 

 lime. This do for three following 

 years. This will answer as a substi- 

 tute, where there is not enough stone 

 quality to form hard, compact wood. 

 Otherwise the wood will be loose and 

 porous and soak with water in winter, 

 which will freeze and kill the tree as 

 stated above. Although the soft wooded 

 trees are planted on gravelly ground, 

 they will not live long. Their nature 

 will not take up with the sap enough of 

 the stone element to make wood hard. 

 I own the farm on which the original 

 Mcintosh Red stands. I have lived 

 all the years of my life within a few 

 feet of it To my knowledge it has 

 l)onie annually for sixty years a crop of 

 the best flavored winter apple known 

 on the continent of America. The 

 a>K)ve is no exaggeration from the 

 truth of what is said respecting the 

 Mcintosh Keds. I have a young 

 orchard, and have in it 1,300 trees of 

 the Mcintosh Reds, the remainder is a 

 few early kinds for summer use. I 

 have a seedling summer apple, grown 

 on my farm by my father about eighty 

 years ago, sweet, very juicy, a good 

 bearer, soft and of good size ; the tree 

 hardy ; lives longer than any of the 

 kind, except the Mcintosh Reds. Any 

 f)ei*son wanting to know more than 

 stated above, write. 



I am, your obedient servant, 



Allan McIntosii, 

 Dundela P.O,, Ont,, Nurseryman. 



Dundas Co., Feb. 6th, 1883. 



GRAPE VINES. 



Mr. Editor. — Nothing was said at 

 our meeting of the proper spaces for 

 vines. We have them from the standard 

 occupying 4 feet as general in France, 

 and I believe in the Beaconstield vine- 

 yard, and on Trellis, 5 to 7 feet high, 

 with 12 to 20 feet range. The vine at 

 Hampton Court, England, whicn many 

 of our members must have seen, ])lanted 

 in 176s, when I saw it about 10 years 

 ago, covered a space of 2,000 square 

 feet, was in full vigor, with a crop, if T 

 remember right, uf over 1,200 bunches, 

 certaiidy average 1 lb. each. Which 

 is best, the narrow or wide gauge. 

 Wide limits seems not to curtail the 

 life nor lessen the fruitfulness of the 

 vine. John Croil. 



WINTER MEETING OF THE FRUIT 

 GHOWEHS' ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Editor, — The attendance at our 

 meeting was good and the subjects dis- 

 cussed interesting and useful. 



The first taken up was, is the English 

 sparrow an advantage to the fruit 

 grower or otherwise. 



After an interesting and lengthy dis- 

 cussion, it was almost unmajiimously 

 agreed that Mr. Sparrow is a sure 

 enemy to the fruit grower and agricul- 

 turist. While he satisfies his appetite 

 at times with insects injurious to crops, 

 the little benefit is far more than coun- 

 ter-balanced by his depredations, eating 

 of the buds of fruit trees ami shrubs, 

 and pilfering the fruit. As an evil doer 

 his total extermination was strongly re- 

 com mendcid. So say we, but ejusier said 

 than done. 



The black spot, or fungus on the ap- 

 ple tree, can it be prevented and how \ 

 Here was a subject very much aflict 

 ing oui-selves. From different locali- 

 ties the reports were vevy conflicting. 

 One grower spoke of having sold one 

 hundred bushels of Faweuso entirely 



