HARDY CLIMBING ROSES FOR CANADA. 



not less than 150,000 peach trees an- 

 nually, or an aggregate of about 2,400,- 

 000 trees, we have Crawfords selling in 

 the self-same market at 80 cents per 

 basket in the year of extreme plenty of 

 all kinds of fruit, with a most prodigious 

 crop of peaches, in the famous peach 

 country of Essex. It looks very much 

 as though had every peach tree in Can- 

 ada been loaded as Essex was, and in 

 spite of everything imaginable working 

 against good prices, still we would have 

 realized much better prices than 16 years 

 ago. True, the area of profitable peach 

 growing, owing to the introduction of 

 hardy varieties, has greatly widened since 

 1880, but for all that it must not be for- 

 gotten that peaches as well as grapes can 

 only be grown in a limited section of 

 the whole Dominion and the consuming 

 population is the population that is in- 

 creasing. The peach growers of Michi- 

 gan got prices last year about like ours 



in 1 880, and yet they are not discouraged, 

 they say it pays infinitely better to grow 

 peaches, when they succeed well, at 10 

 cents per basket, than grain at present 

 prices. 



As for plums which have here espe- 

 cially come to be a most prominent fruit 

 crop, there is this to be said, the crop 

 of i8g6 was as heavy in all the western 

 counties as it could possibly be ; and 

 from Stony Creek east to Niagara river, 

 no more could stick on the trees, and 

 yet they were all marketed at remunera- 

 tive rates. I know of a crop of plums 

 which must have brought $500 per acre 

 the past season, and any full-grown plum 

 orchard at Winona must have returned 

 the owner from J200 to $500 per acre 

 net over baskets. 



E, D Smith. 



Winona, Out. 



HARDY CLIMBING ROSES FOR CANADA. 



HERE is the devotee of 

 Flora who does not long 

 for an arbor, porch or trellis, 

 on their own grounds ad- 

 orned the summer long with clusters of 

 handsome roses ? There seems to be 

 a desire in the heart of every rose- 

 grower for varieties of this description. 

 Thousands of Canadians every year buy 

 everblooming, climbing roses from 

 southern florists ; and thousands are 

 yearly disappointed because they do 

 not survive the chilly Canadian win- 

 ters. The florists are generally much 

 abused in consequence, but it should 

 be remembered that each firm covers 

 a wide range of territory with its cata- 

 logues, and it is more than likely that 

 the varieties described in those cata- 

 logues as hardy, are quite so with a 



vast majority of those who buy from 

 them. 



Hardy climbing roses of fine quality 

 and color are certainly one of the ad- 

 ditions to the " Queen of Flowers " 

 which the future holds in store. It 

 appears to be but the matter of a little 

 time till such varieties shall be obtained, 

 for never before have the efi"orts of pro- 

 fessional hybridists, in this line, been 

 so fruitful ; and never has there been 

 so many promising new varieties upon 

 the market. F^xcepting some recent 

 introductions of which we cannot yet 

 speak with certainty, we think the fol- 

 lowing review includes all the best 

 known hardy climbing varieties : — 



Baltimore Belle, Prairie Queen and 

 Gem of the Prairie head the list for 

 hardiness. They are old it is true, 



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