THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fio. 1480.— Mr. Chas. Davis. 

 how successfully they could be grown in 

 the Burlington district. Mr. Peart's 

 abilities have led to his receiving many 

 prominent appointments in Municipal 



and other institutions, and latterly to 

 his being employed each year on the 

 staff of lecturers at Farmers' Institute. 



Mr. Charles Davis is another promi- 

 nent member of this Society, who has a 

 beautiful home a little south of Burling- 

 ton, on the Hamilton road. He is 

 largely interested in fruit culture, and in 

 the successful export of our fruits, and 

 was one of those who contributed to 

 make up a shipment of selected Cana- 

 dian fruit for Her Majesty Queen Vic- 

 toria's table, in 1896, and which brought 

 back the following response from Lieut.- 

 Col. Sir Arthur Bigge, Windsor Castle, 

 the Queen's Private Secretary : — 



"I am commanded by the Queen to beg 

 you to be good enough to arrange that Her 

 Majesty's best thanks be conveyed to those 

 fruit growers of the neighborhood of Hamil- 

 ton, Ont. , who kindly offered for Her Majes- 

 ty's acceptance, a beautiful consignment of 

 their year's crop. The cases were received 

 yesterday, by the master of the household. 

 Their contents were in perfect condition, and 

 some of the fruit served at Her Majesty's 

 dinner proved excellent. 



A SEEDLING APPLE, 



s\ROM appearance the tree is 

 ^~^ 15 to 18 years old, growing 

 in front of bush lot upon the 

 farm of Alex; Campbell, of 

 the township of Stanley, County of 

 Huron, Bayfield, P.O. This tree is 

 about 500 yards distant from the farm 

 orchard ; has borne crops of fruit for 

 many years, and always of the same 

 uniform size, shape and cleanliness ; 

 this year the crop is about three bar- 

 rels, and every specimen is free from 

 spot or insect, which goes to illustrate 

 the advantage of a strong tree feeding 

 upon virgin soil. The owner estimates 

 its value so highly that he has grafted 

 several trees in the home orchard from 

 it, and it will be interesting to know the 

 results of this work. He names it 

 locally as " Campbell's Red." Evi- 

 dently a Fameuse seedling, bearing 

 many points of resemblance, stem "about 



same with calyx resembling Wealthy ; 

 color which covers the fruit completely, 

 is brighter, livelier than Fameuse ; will 

 keep with Fameuse, flesh white with 

 crimsom streaks, firm and juicy, pos- 

 sessing more tart than parent and would 

 ship well, good. 



In your excellent description of 

 " Fruit at the Industrial," I was struck 

 with the composition of the twenty 

 variety of pears which took first prize. 



That collection contains varieties 

 which point very low in commercial 

 value, such as Seckel, Lawrence, Nelis, 

 Malines especially. I might also add 

 Easter Beurre, as for such a collection 

 it is too variable to recommend generally. 

 Souvenir also comes into the same list 

 and cannot be classed as generally pro- 

 fitable. Then the Flemish Beauty has 

 lost some points of late years as a 

 generally profitable pear. The collection 

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