STO.V]- CREEK' AND FOXTHILL FRUll GARDENS. 



Fii;. 1 Kit). —Annie de DiEsnAcn. 



great farms of nursery stock, and were 

 shown a single block containing 300,- 

 000 beautiful apple trees of salable 

 size, another of 50,000 plum trees, an- 

 other of Too,ooo fine peach trees and 

 another of 60,000 cherry trees, etc., all 

 in the most excellent state of cultivation. 

 One view of a block of 40,000 peach 

 trees with gang of hoers at work is 

 show in Fig. 1 165. 



Must our Canadian fruitgrowers plant 

 and grow all these trees and place all 

 the fruit they bear in the market to com- 

 pete with that now being grown ? we 

 asked, naturally feeling anxious lest the 

 markets will soon be more than glutted 

 with fruit. " V'es, said the owner, they 

 must plant them." In one respect we 

 were compelled to acknowledge that the 

 tree agent was a public benefactor. By 

 his persistent efforts, and gifted tongue. 



many meritorious varieties of trees are 

 at once introduced into general cultiva- 

 tion, that otherwise would not have been 

 known for decades of years. 



The rose block was a charming sight ; 

 50,000 plants in one block, of all the 

 most desirable hardy varieties ! Pro- 

 minent among the white varieties we 

 noted Madame Plantier, Coquette des 

 Blanches, Coquette des Alps, and Mar- 

 garet Dickson, the latter especially beau- 

 tiful, with flesh-colored tint in centre. 



Of red varieties, we noticed Francoise 

 Levet, cherry rose of medium size, of 

 Paul Verdier style, one of the hardiest : 

 La Reine, very hardy, somewhat fra- 

 grant, glossy-rose ; Paul Neyron, the 

 largest of all roses, many of the blooms 

 measuring seven inches in diameter ; 

 and Annie de Diesbach(Fig i i66)one of 

 very best pink. Three varieties of red 

 roses much resemble each other, viz.: 

 General Washington, Charles Lefebre 

 and Sir Garnet Wolseley. 



Of dark red varieties of course Baron 

 de Bonstetten takes the lead, but Jean 

 Liabaud, a seedling of it, is a lovely rose 

 and competes with it for the first place. 



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