THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Since Mr. Ililhorn lias liad to turn his at 

 tion to something else than peaches, he has 

 gone largely into the growing of early vege- 

 tables, such as cabbage, cucumbers, toma- 

 toes and melons. He says his tomatoes 

 last year paid better than peaches ever did. 



Till'; WICNTWORTII STATION. 



The fruit to which special attention is be- 

 ing given at this station by Mr. Murray, 

 Pettit, of Winona, the experimenter, is 

 grapes, of which he has about 25 acres, in- 

 cluding 146 varieties. 



The vines set their usual heavy crop, but 

 on account of the cold backward season the 

 fruit was very late in ripening, hardly any 

 of it being fit for display at the time of the 

 Toronto exhibition. Many of the late 

 varieties, in fact, did not ripen at all. The 

 brown and black rot of the grape were much 

 worse last year than ever before in Ontario. 

 In many vineyards, particularly of the 

 Roger varieties, the crop was more than half 

 spoiled. It is important that grape grow- 

 ers should know that both of these forms of 

 rot can be kept in check by thorough spray- 

 ing with the Bordeaux mixture. If the 

 disease gets a good foot-hold in this coun- 

 try, as it has in many of the grape growing- 

 sections of the United States, it will be im- 

 possibH after a time to get a crop of grapes 

 without thorough spraying. 



The results of Mr. Pettit's variety tests 

 are already valuable, for tney show plainly 

 that but very few of many varieties adver- 

 tised are of value in this country. From 

 among the large number tested the follow- 

 ing are recommended as a few of the best : 

 Black — Concord, Worden, W^ilder, and 

 Campbell's Early. Red — Lindsey, Dela- 

 ware, Agawam, and Catawba. White — 

 Niagara and Aloore's Diamond. 



In addition to his vineyard Mr. Pettit has 

 about 40 acres in orchards, niostly of pears 

 and plums. He has 28 varieties of peaches, 

 2t of phnr.s. 16 of cherries, 12 of pears, and 

 6 of ppples. Of the other fruits tested Mr. 



^Pettit recommends the following varieties 

 as the most profitable for his section : 



PivACiiics : Alexander, Greensboro, Yel- 

 low St. John, l^arly Crawford, Elberta, 

 Smithson, and Smock. These are given in 

 their order of ripening, and he would ad- 

 vise planting only a few of the two first 

 mentioned. 



Pilars: Gififord. llartlett, Howell, Duch- 

 ess, and Anjou. 



Pi.UMS: Bradshaw, Lombard, Grand 

 Duke, Jjurbank, Vellcuv Egg, Reine Claude, 

 and Monarch. 



ChivRRIES : Xapoleon Bigarreau, Wind- 

 sor, Reine Hortense, Black Heart, Early 

 Richmond, and Bossarabian. 



rut; BURLINGTON STATION. 



At this statioii ^Ir. Peart, of Free- 

 man, the experimenter, has a large general 

 collection of fruits, made up of 69 varieties 

 of apples, 45 of pears, 50 of plums, 10 of 

 peaches, 8 of cherries, 28 of grapes, 

 2^ of currants, 6 of gooseberries, 22 

 of blackberries, 3 of respberries, and 

 one of quinces. Many of these he 

 has had under test for a long time, and 

 is thus in a position to give valuable infor- 

 mation regarding the best varieties to plant 

 in his section. Following is a list of the 

 varieties he recommends of the various 

 classes of fruits : 



Apples : Sunimer — Astrachan, Duchess. 

 Fall — Ribston and Blenheim. Winter — 

 Baldwin, Northern Spy, Greening and King. 



Pears : Wilder, Bartlett, Clapp's Favor- 

 ite, Anjou, Clairgeau (dwarf), Kieflfer, 

 Winter Nelis, Easter Buerre. 



European Plums : Bradshaw, Niagara, 

 Ouackenbos, Lombard, Imperial Gage, 

 Reine Claude. Japan Plums — Willard, 

 Abundance, Burbank, Satsuma and Wick- 

 son. 



Peaches: Champion, Crosby. Elberta, 

 Earl}- and Late Crawford, Smock and Ty- 

 hurst. 



Cherries: Earlv Richmond, Mont"0- 



