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LOCATING FRUIT EXPERIMENT STATIONS— II. 



ARLY in September we continued our work, this time east 

 of Toronto. At Whitby we visited an applicant, Mr. R. L. 

 Huggard, who has already a fine collection of varieties. Of 

 pears he has 40 varieties ; of apples 60 varieties ; of plums 

 50 varieties ; of grapes 30 varieties. In all he has eighty- 

 five acres of ground, and of this ten acres is in fruit. 

 '^ Among other interesting varieties of apples he showed us 

 fine samples of the Minkler and of the Boston Star. 



At Newcastle we called upon Mr. E. C. Beman, a gentleman who has 150 

 varieties of pears under test. He has thirteen acres of pear orchard and in it 

 some very fine trees. One Flemish Beauty, sixty years planted, yielded him 

 this year five barrels of fine fruit. 



One variety of pear which Mr. Beman grows quite largely is the IVi/mot, 

 a seedling which he harvests about the 20th of September. It is not a large 

 pear, but being firm, of good quality, and in season until October ist, it sells 

 well when the Bartlett season is over. The tree is very productive. He has 

 300 large trees of this variety, and one old tree which is about thirty feet high, 

 and about six feet in circumference. Mr. Beman also has a good many 

 trees of the Duchess Precoce, a pear much resembling the Bartlett, but 

 later, and inferior in quality. He also has seventeen trees, five years top-grafted. 



Fig. 836. — Me. Dbjipsey's Ai-ple Hocsb. 



