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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fig. 1737. McIntosh. 



cessfully at Montreal as the Fameuse, and 

 perhaps more successfully, and therefore he 

 recommended its cultivation in the province 

 of Quebec. The same year Mr. George 

 Bunbury, of Oakville, wrote us : " If we 

 can grow such lovely apples as 

 the Mcintosh Red shown at 

 Hamilton I think we ought to 

 do so, as I believe such apples 

 will always fetch fancy prices in 

 England, and I don't think I ever 

 saw such a perfect looking red 

 apple as the Mcintosh Red." 



But we mast be fair and add 

 that this fine variety has the 

 serious fault of being subject to 

 apple scab, which renders con- 

 stant spraying necessary and 

 much increases the cost of rais- 

 ing fine samples. Mr. John 

 Craig, in 1893, also reported 

 that while the wood was hardy 

 he found it somewhat tender at 

 Ottawa. 



The Princess Louise has 



been before the public since 

 1879, when it was first shown 

 before the Ontario Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association by the writer as 

 the Woolverton, but afterwards 

 named Princess Louise after 

 H. R. H. the Marchioness of 

 Lome, on account of its great 

 beauty. The original tree still 

 stands on the "Mountain" side 

 at Maplehurst, Grimsby, and 

 singularly enough the fruit borne 

 by the original seedling tree has 

 not been equalled in beauty by 

 the fruit borne on trees propa- 

 gated from it, although of the 

 same very excellent flavor. 



In September number, 1888, 

 we gave a very good colored 

 plate of this apple, and now 

 we give as a frontispiece an 

 excellent photograph, taken in 1899 by our 

 special artist. Miss Brodie. We also give a 

 technical description of the apple, which 

 may be of service in identification, as we 

 find that in some nurserymen's collections 



Fu.. 1738. McIntosh. 



