SB ANUS SUMMER PEAR. 



next year's fruiting. I cannot just now 

 state exact results, but 1 remember 

 they were very large in quantity, and 

 usually they realized very satisfactory 

 results from them when put on the 

 market. 



The variety they mostly planted was 

 the old well-known variety, Kittatinny, 

 which seemed here to be perfectly at 

 home, as I never saw anything like 

 them before. For general planting, I 

 may say that perhaps the old hardy 

 reliable sort, Snyder, is the best for 

 not very favorable locations, or for our 

 strong clay soils. The plant is very 

 hardy and very productive, and the 

 first is, though not the best, yet fairly 

 good. Wilson's Jr. and Wilson's Early 



are both large, handsome good black- 

 berries, and in favorable locations and 

 soils may be made very serviceable 

 in a large product of very fine beautiful 

 fruit. 



Wachusetts is a newer and very 

 excellent blackberry and will do well 

 if planted on good loamy soil. For 

 kitchen purposes during our long win- 

 ter months, there is nothing better for 

 family use than a good large supply 

 of these most luscious blackberries. 

 They can be made up into almost 

 all forms of pastries and are first-class 

 for jams, jellies, dessert, etc. 



B (}OTT. 



Strathroy, March lot/i, iSgj. 



OSBAND'S SUMMER PEAR. 



VX MONG the early summer pears of 

 /M fine quality for the dessert table 



ITli is the Osband's Summer, which 

 ripens early in August. It is an 



American pear, which originated in 



New York State, so that it is in its 

 own altitude when grown in South- 

 ern Ontario. The tree is fairly vigor- 

 ous, and a good bearer, but the fruit 

 is rather small for a market pear. For 

 home use as a summer dessert pear it 

 is excellent, and a tree or two should 

 be planted in every garden. The form 

 is well shown in the accompanying 

 photogravure, which of course is much 

 reduced. The quality is very good, 

 being rich and sweet, with agreeable 

 aroma. 



At Maplehurst we havehad this variety 

 many years in bearing, but cannot advise 

 it for planting in the commercial orchard, 

 not only on account of the small size of 

 the fruit, but also because the tree is 

 somewhat subject to blight. 



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