THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



them and advised as to the most desirable 

 for the various sections to cover the whole 

 fruit season." 



"We have," said Mr. Smith, "not a 

 single good all-round grape yet. What we 

 want is Concord quality in Agawam skin. 

 We should have a wholesale planting of 

 seed with a view of securing something that 

 may meet our needs. For all time we shall 

 be compelled to ship large quantities of our 

 tender fruits to distant markets — to the 

 West and the Maritime Provinces — and we 

 must have the carrying quality." 



NEW FRUITS OF THE) YEAR. 



1"^ HE committee consisting of Messrs. 

 Hutt, Macoun and Woolverton, re- 

 ported on several new fruits worthy of fur- 

 ther trial, as, for example, Waller's Seed- 

 ling apple from Napanee, more showy than 

 Wealthy and of about the same season ; a 

 seedling plum from Orillia, handsome and 

 excellent quality ; Lindsay's Seedling plum, 

 from Guelph, large and of good quality ; 

 Smith's Giant blackcap, large and produc- 

 tive, one of the most promising, a seedling 

 of Gregg; the Emerald plum, the earliest 

 really good plum we have; Lack's seedling, 

 from Lindsay, an apple resembling in beauty 

 the Louise, but" earlier ; Herbert raspberry, 

 the best red variety for the amateur ; Mani- 

 toba Grape, one of the most promising for 

 the north, as early as Champion, of as good 

 quality as Moore. 



VALUABLE APPLES FOR THE NORTH. 



MR. W. F. MACOUN, of Ottawa, 

 gave the following list of winter ap- 

 ples worthy of a place in orchards north of 

 latitude 46 degrees, viz. : Wealthy, Hibernal, 

 Longfield, Patten's Greening, Whitney, Hys- 

 lop, and, where not too severe, Northwest 

 Greening, Dempsey No. 80, and Windsor 

 Chief. 



For summer and fall he named Yellow 

 Transparent, Charlemov and Duchess, which 



without doubt are the best on the list for 

 their season. 



THE MOST VALUABLE COMMERCIAL APPLE. 



IN accord with the suggestions made at 

 the meeting concerning the many in- 

 ferior varieties cultivated in Ontario and be- 

 ing offered for sale to planters, the Board 

 of Control of our' fruit stations has made 

 out the following valuable list of commer- 

 cial varieties to be pubHshed in our next re- 

 port : Summer, Astrachan, Duchess : Fall, 

 Gravenstein (tender in St. Lawrence dis- 

 trict and northward) ; Wealthy (valuable 

 for the north) ; Alexander (valuable for the 

 north) ; Mcintosh (especially for St. Law- 

 rence district, but can be grown over a wide 

 area) ; Fameuse (also especially adapted to 

 St. Lawrence district) ; Blenheim (tender in 

 St. Lawrence and other northerly portions 

 of the province) : Winter, King (for best 

 apple sections, succeeds best top grafted on 

 hardy stocks) ; Hubbardston ; Greening 

 (both for best apple sections) ; Cranberry 

 (requires good soil and is adapted to the 

 best apple districts, but especially to South- 

 ern Ontario) ; Baldwin (best on clay and in 

 best apple districts) ; Spy (for best districts, 

 but succeeds farther north on hardy stocks, 

 this top working also tends to bring it into 

 earlier bearing) ; Ontario (an early and 

 abundant bearer, but short lived, recom- 

 mended as a filler among longer lived trees, 

 adaptation similar to that of Spy) ; Stark 

 (for best apple districts). 



UNIONS OF FRUIT GROWERS. 



N 



OW that we are planning for unions 

 of fruit growers in every section of 

 Ontario, we want to gather information 

 from every source, the following account of 

 the working of such a scheme will be help- 

 ful : 



At the annual meeting of the Massachusetts 

 Fruit Growers' Association Dr. Grigham cited a 

 fruit growers' association near the great lakes 

 which is incorporated and now has 150 membera. 



