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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



REPORT ON FRUIT TREES, &c. 



Appin, Feb. 5th, 1882. 

 As it seems to be the general prac- 

 tice to give a short history of the trees 

 and plants received by the members of 

 the Fruit Growers' Association, I will 

 do so. The pear trees are doing well, 

 excepting the Beurre Clairgeau; Clapp's 

 Favorite blossomed nicely last spring, 

 but bore no fruit; Beurre d'Anjou 

 has fruited twice ; Flemish Beauty is 

 growing nicely. My apple trees are 

 growing nicely; Grimes Golden has 

 not fruited as yet. My Burnet grape 

 vine makes but poor growth as yet ; 

 my other vines are all dead long ago. 

 My Hales peach was dry and withered 

 up when it came to hand, being taken 

 up as I believe in the fall of the year 

 before it was sent out, and never started 

 into growth at all. My Blackberry 

 never came to anything, nor the Rasp- 

 berry either. The last Raspberry has 

 made a good growth since planted. 

 My Gooseberry bush never started into 

 growth in the spring. Planting small 

 fruits in the fall should be avoided. 

 All nursery trees and plants should be 

 dug up with more care than is gener- 

 ally bestowed on them. In taking up in 

 the nursery, all the fibrous roots are 

 as a general rule left in the ground and 

 only the stock sent out. I would pre- 

 fer a smaller tree or plant, provided it 

 had a good root left to the tree. This 

 is a serious fault with many nursery- 

 men. My Hydrangea Paniculata grew 

 ■ well in the first part of the season ; it 

 put out buds for flowei^, but the dry 

 weather prevented it from flowering, 

 and in September its leaves dried up. 

 1 do not know if it is dead or not. 

 -Mr. Lotan's tree has done well ; his 

 Raspberry is doing nicely ; his potatoes 

 have turned out well. I have given a 

 brief resume since my last report. My 

 Glass seedling plum has not fruited 

 yet; the blossoms have dropped off"; 

 this tree is a very free grower ; if the 



fruit can compare with the growth of 

 the tree it will be a great acquisition 

 to the plum orchard. I am glad that 

 the Directors allow of a choice ; it is in 

 the right direction. 



The Horticulturist is getting to be a 

 very useful pamphlet to me. I begin 

 to look for it regularly every month 

 with its discussions and notices of 

 fruits, besides its being so handy a 

 reference book, with its index to the 

 yearly volume. It is worth more than 

 the whole cost to have the opinion of 

 those who are in a position to know 

 the merits or the demerits of those new 

 trees, fruits, &c., peddled around 

 through the country by unscrupulous 

 men. If there were more copies of the 

 Horticulturist taken by the farmers 

 around here there would not be such 

 big shaves got from them for new fruit 

 trees at enormous prices. 



Yours truly, John McIntyre. 



ALGOMA. 



Bhnd River, Dec. 17, 1881. 

 My Wealthy Apple which came to 

 me fi-om the Association has done well, 

 although it was about two weeks on 

 the way in the mail bags before I got 

 it, and I give thanks for the good con- 

 dition it was packed in so as to stand 

 the long mail transit. We have had a 

 good year for wild fruits. Oanberries, 

 blue berries, raspberries and straw- 

 berries were all very plentiful this year, 

 which has been of great benefit io the 

 new settler of this out of the way part 

 of the world. We also have had good 

 crops of all kinds of gi*ain and roots. 

 Corn has done well, and I tried a few 

 rows of the Early Amber sugar cane, 

 which was planted too late — the second 

 of June — and grew nine feet high and 

 looked well, but was killed with frost 

 the middle of September ; but we had 

 plenty of tomatoes, pumpkins, and 

 squash, which matured well. I planted 



