The Canadian Horticulturist. 379 



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New Strawberries. 



Sir, — I have some eight or ten seedling strawberries that fruited the past season 

 and which give indication of being lirst class. 1 picked these out of some two hundred 

 seedlings and I have about two hundred more that will fruit for the first time next season, 

 choice crosses with the best kinds for parents, such as Woolverton, Marshall, Brandywine, 

 Bubach, Haverland, Greenville, VanDeman and others. Clyde did the best in either old or 

 new kinds, and it is going to take a first place as a general purpose berry. It is of large, 

 firm, good flavor, good looking and the plant is perfect in every way and stands the hot drj- 

 time well. I am sure of what I say, as I have fruited it now three times. It eame out best 

 this year in a test with over one hundred and thirty of the best kinds. 



E. B. Stevensox, Freeman. 



Conn Gooseberry. 



Sir, — Have you noticed the quality of the Conn, or Autocrat when fully ripe. .Some 

 friends here pronounce it the best berry for eating and all remark how much it resembles 

 the Gage plum. Two of my friends remarked that it was a revelation to them that goose- 

 Ijerries were so fine for eating. Certainly nothing but Lancashire Lad comes up to it in this 

 respect. It has one bad fault, namely, the early loss of its foliage. 



Stanley Spillett, Nantyr. 



Pewaukee Apple. 



Sir, — For six years in succession here six Pewaukee apple trees have yielded fifteen 

 barrels a year, that is an average of two and a half barrels per tree, to my certain know- 

 ledge. They were sold right in the orchard for $1.25 a barrel. The present owner of this 

 orchard purchased forty acres four years ago upon which were two hundred trees of every 

 variety almost, about eighteen years planted. I have made a little calculation as to the 

 result as follows : — Had these two hundred trees been all Pewaukee, he would have paid 

 for his place off the four acres of orchard in three years and had a surplus of §375 in his 

 pocket. As it is, the orchard has not paid the interest. So much for judicious selection 

 of varieties in planting for money. If planters are setting out apples as ornamental trees, 

 something cheaper would surely be better. 



Stanley Spillett, Nantyr. 



