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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



long branchless arms. These may be short- 

 ened back annually, with judgment, and the 

 small branches resulting- can be thinned as 

 may seem necessary. The fruit is borne, tor 

 the most part, on small spars, which are 



formed along the shoots of wood from one 

 to three years old ; these therefore should 

 be carefully preserved, and such young wood 

 always encouraged as will furnish those for 

 the successive vears. 



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Seedling Peaches From Jarvis. 



Sir, — Herewith I send you two samples of a 

 seedling peach that is now four years old, and 

 fruited this year for the first time. The tree is a 

 very vigorous grower, thick heavy leaves, and 

 seems to be very hardy. It is now a tree of about 

 twelve feet high and of good stocky growth. 

 Last winter my Elberta and Crosby Early were 

 entirely killed but this came out all right. This 

 year, when in full bloom, we had on two nights 

 very sharp frosts, and on the last one it froze ice 

 \ of an inch thick, and yet I have forty-three very 

 handsome peaches. The specimens I send you 

 are one of the best on the tree, and one of the 

 smallest. This year there is no small ones, they 

 all seem nearly alike. 



Thos. H. Lewis, L. D. S. 



Jarvis, Ont. 



Plums in Cape Breton. 



Sir, — I am sending herewith by parcel post 

 samples of two varieties of plums, and will be 

 greatly obliged if you will name them for me. 



My plum trees were very heavily fruited this 

 year, but the great storm which played such havoc 

 in other parts of North America destroyed a num- 

 ber of my trees, and a very severe frost on the 

 night of September 20th completed the work 

 which the wind began. The greatest damage 



was done the Lombards, which were very heavily 

 laden with fruit, and, being weak and open in 

 the crotches of the trunk and branches, were the 

 first to succumb to the force of the wind, they also 

 suffered the most from the frost. I notice that 

 the blue kinds are not so badly damaged by the 

 frost as the yellow ones. After several years' ex- 

 perience with Japanese plums I have come to the 

 conclusion that they are not suited to this locality. 

 I have several trees of Abundance which should 

 have been bearing fruit for the past four years, 

 but so far they have not borne a dozen plums. 

 Burbank gave me a few very pretty samples, and 

 while they are interesting they are not profitable. 

 There is another Japanese variety, the name of 

 which I have lost, which bore a fair quantity of 

 fruit and ripened early — the first to ripen in my 

 orchard — but the fruit, unfortunately, is of a very 

 poor quality, tasting somethinglike chokecherries. 

 This latter variety is the only one of the Japs on 

 which I have seen black knots. So far I have 

 managed to control the knots by cutting them off 

 and spraying the trees. I never pass a knot 

 without attending to it. I keep a Waters' Tree 

 Pruner in the orchard all the time, and with it I 

 can reach any knot and cut it off, and placing it 

 in my coat pocket carry it to the house and put 

 it in the kitchen stove. 



Yours truly, 



D. S. McDonald. 

 Glendyer, C.B., Sept. 24. 



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As the winter season of comparative 

 leisure from the worry and push of fruit 

 season is at hand, we hope there will be 

 special activity among our horticultural 

 societies. An autumn flower and fruit show 

 in October, when all other fairs are over, 

 and when the coleus and the geranium and 

 other plants are being lifted for removal to 

 their winter quarters is most opportune ; or 

 a chrysanthemum show in November, with 

 winter apples and winter pears. 



How the members do appreciate such an 

 exhibition when money getting is not the 

 object of the exhibition, only to help out the 

 general good, and where the money is spent 

 for the equal good of every member. 



The Grimsby Horticultural Society has 

 this year an exhibit of this character. It is 

 an evening aflfair, just lasting from 7 to 10 

 o'clock, with orchestral music, and each 

 member who has paid for 1900, or who 

 pays in advance for 1901, is to receive a 



