222 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



fertilizing vineyards, fruit and garden plantations, and making orchards, vine- 

 yards and gardens prolific, in disseminating horticultural knowledge by means 

 of lectures and otherwise, and in printing for free distribution the results of such 

 investigations or experiments. The whole of this work is placed in charge of 

 Cornell University. 



The Russian Baldwin. — We have received from Dr. Hoskins, Newport, 

 Vt, the samples of a fine winter apple, believed by him to be a Russian, but 

 not yet introduced among American nurserymen. At this date, May 17th, one 

 of these samples is still in good condition, and "that under unfavorable storage. 

 The size is above medium, the color yellowish ground almost covered with dark 

 red, sometimes in stripes and splashes ; quality very good, better than the 

 Baldwin. 



The First Report of the Ontario Fruit Experiment Stations has been 

 bound in with ours,'as well as that of the Entomological Society. A bound 

 volume, containing these two reports, is now being mailed, by the authority of 

 the Minister of Agriculture, to all paid-up members of our Association, a book 

 which we believe will give much satisfaction. Our readers will be surprised to 

 find how much progress has been made during the very first season of our 

 operations. 



Mr. J. R. Anderson, of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria, British 

 Columbia, has issued a bulletin in which he reports a meeting of the North- 

 West Fruit Growers' Association. In the report of the Committee on Trans- 

 portation we find the following resolution concerning fruit packages : — " Third, 

 That estimated vyeights of standard size fruit packages shall be estimated as 

 follows : — Apples, 50 pounds ; pears, 40 pounds ; peaches, plums, prunes and 

 grapes, 18 pounds ; cherries, 10 pounds ; or such actual weight as may be here- 

 after determined." 



Winter Apples appear to be a failure again, just when we wanted to try 

 some special shipments to Great Britain. No Spys, no Baldwins, no Russetts ; 

 all our standard sorts barren again ! Is it the same in all parts ? There is just 

 one variety of winter apple at Maplehurst which is bearing a heavy crop this 

 year, and that is the Cranberry Pippin. This is just a superb variety for the 

 south shore of Lake Ontario, for there it grows to perfection. It is like the 

 Gravenstein among Fall sorts, an attractive apple for all purposes. 



The Changing of the bearing year of our apples and pears by gathering 

 the young fruit has often been advocated, but it would appear that the theory 

 is a mistaken one. It would seem that it is the bloom that exhausts the tree 

 rather than the maturing of the fruit. That this is the case, instances in proof 

 were very numerous during 1894. For example, in our King orchard a large 



