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In very rich soils, it grows too late to be perfectly hardy. But here, in all 

 southern and eastern Wisconsin, and Michigan, it is doing finely. Prof. Budd 

 was sure it was of the * Anis family ' and had ' Russian blood in it,' but after- 

 wards went back on it." 



Six years' trial of the North-West Greening in this province has convinced 

 me that we have in it a valuable acquisition to our late winter apples. The 



Fig. 430.— North- West Greening, Section. 



fruit is certainly fine ; size, medium to large ; color, yellowish green, with creamy 

 blush on sunny side ; roundish oblong. Flesh, yellowish white, tender, sub-acid, 

 juicy, crisp, pleasant. It is a fine cooking apple, handsome and symmetrical. 

 The North-West Greening is worthy of cultivation in this province and Eastern 

 Ontario, where the Rhode Island Greening cannot be grown successfully, and it 

 promises to be a competitor of that admirable apple. The North-West Greening 

 keeps till June. 



Montreal, P. Q. R. W. Shepherd. 



Bi^ Strawberry Crops. — Strawberry culture has become a specialty 

 with a great many, and financially a great success. Judge Miller, of Missouri, 

 raised 17,000 quarts per acre; Smith, of Wisconsin, raised at a rate of 400 

 bushels per acre ; Derrand, of New Jersey, raised at a rate of 20,000 quarts per 

 acre ; Arnold, one of the successful growers of Ohio, feels satisfied that he raised 

 150 bushels on the average per acre. — Strawberry Culturist. 



