The Canadian Horticulturist. 25 



NOTES ON VARIETIES TESTED. 



The Williams' Stpawberry. 



WISH to say after testing the above for ten years that I am safe 

 in saying that there is no one strawberry as good for the general 

 crop. It is large, handsome, a good shipper, very productive, and 

 the quality is unsurpassed. As an old strawberry grower, I would 

 advise all to drop such as the old Wilson, Crescent Seedling, 

 Michel's Early, and many others, unless you are on a very early 

 spot. But, remember those small strawberries are the means of making our 

 market so low at times. If we all would aim to grow our berries better and to 

 be more particular about the varieties we plant, we would get better prices and 

 larger crops. The Williams plants can be had in many places at reasonable 

 rates. It has a perfect bloom. 



The Champion Peach. 



A report on the above peach might not come amiss. The first year it came 

 out I budded it on a four-year old tree. This year it had quite a few peaches 

 of large size and of good quality. It is a white peach with a pale red tinge on 

 one side, which gives it a rather rich appearance ; but it rotted badly, which was 

 quite a common thing among many peaches this year. But it has three bad 

 points : It is a white flesh, ripens with the Early Crawfords, and it is not what 

 you could call a freestone. 



The Lovett White Peach. 



The above fruited with me this year on a three-year old tree. If it does not 

 do better as the tree gets older it will be of little use. It is a pure white peach : 

 so far, small, of medium quality. 



The Abundance Plum. 

 The above plum is worthy of a place in every orchard. It is a rampant 

 grower, early and abundant bearer, of good quality and size, bears very young. 

 It is said to be curculio proof, but this I cannot agree to ; but so far I have not 

 seen a single black knot on them. It is almost red, with a heavy bloom ; ripens 

 early, does best on heavy soil, but will grow where any other plum will grow. 



The Wonderful Peach. 



The above peach very much resembles the Smock, which has become very 

 popular of late, but I think it is a little larger and of better quality. I had a 

 five-year-old tree which they looked very fine on, but I had a limb on another 

 tree which was some spotted, and some specimens cracked. It is a little tender 

 in the nursery rows, but shows no signs of it as the tree gets older. It is worth 

 trying ; ripens with the Smock. 



Niagara. W. H. Lee. 



