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THE ELBERTA PEACH. 



,OUR comments in September number on the Elberta peach very 

 much interested me, as I had just finished peeling a bushel or 

 more of that peach for my wife to put in cans. I have fruited 

 this peach for three years. Got the trees from Georgia, five or 

 six years ago. The trees seem to be as hardy as our most hardy 

 trees ; bear full when other trees bear. With me the trees are not 

 as large as other trees of the same age ; late Crawford trees nearly 

 one-third larger. My location not a good one for Crawfords. The Elberta 

 trees yield with me five bushels to the (Crawford's one. The Elberta, where 

 the late Crawford does not do well, will prove a great acquisition. While the 

 peach seems to be everything desired in a late peach, the tendency to rot when 

 ripening is greater than in other peaches. The rot does not extend through 

 the whole peach, but will be on one side, often only a small spot, the rest of 

 the peach sound and good. These spots may be caused by being stung by 

 some insect. There are so many good peaches on the trees, that one will 

 hardly notice the few that show decay. I conclude bv saying that the tree is 

 hardy, a great bearer, and the peach in size, color, attractiveness and quality, 

 all that can be desired. S. S. Bailey. 



THE APPLE CROP. 



In Ontapio. — After an extended tour of the Province, the writer can 

 make little change in his report of the condition of the apple crop in Ontario. 

 All through the South, from Niagara to Windsor, the same doleful tale of failure is 

 repeated, and confirmed by a view of the trees. The same is true along the 

 northern shore of Lake Ontario, until you near Trenton, where some orchards 

 are pretty well loaded. So also, as we proceed northward from Toronto, there 

 are scarcely any apples till you come to the south shore of the Georgian Bay, 

 where we found some orchards quite heavily loaded with fruit. Some growers 

 there are on the safe side in their estimate of 60 per cent, of a full crop. 



In Nova Scotia. — Mr. John Craig sends us the following interesting note 

 ■concerning the condition of the apple harvest in Nova Scotia. In a letter from 

 S C. Parker, of Berwick, N. S., he says : " With the great show of blossom it 

 was thought that the fruit crop was setting very lightly, but since that time it 

 has steadily improved till to-day in King's County, I am convinced there are 

 more apples than ever grew here in one year before. Gravensteins are a full 

 crop; Kings no, Baldwin no, and the winter apple a full crop. Plums are 

 wonderfully prolific. A gentleman in Wolfville is harvesting at least 400 bushels, 

 while a near neighbor of ours has picked 150 bushels from an orchard seven 

 years out. Cranberries are also a splendid crop. Mr. Parker further states 

 that the dry weather, however, has had the effect of decreasing the size of the 

 fruit and hastening its maturity." 



