THE CANADIAN HORTI0ULTDKI8T. 



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is in localities where the scale and black 

 fungus have not clone 80 niucJi damage 

 as in the older orchards. A much 

 larger proportion of the fi'uit will this 

 year come from young trees than it did 

 last yeai\" 



NATIVE FRUITS. 



A Paprr read be/ore (he IVestern New York Horticul- 

 tural Society at Rochester, January 25th, 18SS, by 

 W. C. Barry, Sec. Native Fruit Conmittee. 



APPLES. 



The list of valuable apples is now so 

 large that few attempts are made to 

 acquire anything better. Chance seed- 

 lings of apparent merit are frequently 

 brought to notice, but when placed 

 beside the older sorts and compared 

 carefully, few are found worthy of in- 

 troduction. We have several seedlings 

 grafted upon bearing trees, and hoped 

 to obtain fruit of them the past sum- 

 mer, but did not ; hence we must 

 defer mention of them till the next 

 annual report. At the West strenuous 

 efforts are being made to obtain sorts 

 which will endiu\^ extreme cold. The 

 Russian as well as other hardy sorts 

 are being carefully tested, and ere long 

 we may expect some important devel- 

 opments relative to this class of fruit. 

 The introduction of the Wealthy is an 

 important step in tliat direction. Hardi- 

 ness and tine quality are combined in 

 this variety, and the new ap]>le has 

 come to be regarded as an acquisition 

 of much value. The Whitneij Crab 

 fruited with us for the first time the 

 past season, and as regards its quality 

 was an agreeable surprise. The fruit 

 is of medium size, large for a Crab, 

 flesh tine, melting, juicy, and pleasant 

 flavored. It matures in August. 



Occuient, the new California apple, 

 resembling Yellow Bellflower, and re- 

 ferred to in former reports, is now being 

 di.sseminated, and we hope it may suc- 

 ceed so well as to nierit a permanent 

 position on the select lists. 



Sutton Beauty continues to grow in 

 favor, and should it succeed as well 

 generally as it has in New York and 

 Massachusetts, it may with all justice 

 be accorded a high position among our 

 best apples. 



Stump, frequently mentioned in the 

 reports of this society, is a beautiful 

 and valuable table apple. It has been 

 on trial long enough to enable us to 

 award it a place among the most desir- 

 able fruits. 



Magog Red Streak is a hardy variety, 

 of which Dr. Hoskins says : " If it 

 were not for the Wealthy, this would 

 stand at the head of our winter apples ;" 

 and of 



Scott's Winter^ another variety, he 

 adds : " This is the apple which well 

 replaces for us the Roxbury Russet of 

 a milder clime." 



In our anxiety for novelties, we fre- 

 quently place too low an estimate upon 

 the older fruits, and tiie committee 

 feels that a brief reference occasionally 

 to some of these sorts will not b® out 

 of place. Some fruits require peculiar 

 care and culture to develop their best 

 qualities, and when a variety of acknow- 

 ledged merit fails to succeed with us, 

 we should endeavor to tind out the 

 cause, and if possible apply a remeily. 

 Soil and climate often exert such a 

 powerful influence over the fruit, that 

 particular sorts cannot be grown in 

 certain localities, even with the l>est of 

 care. But several sorts fail from utter 

 neglect, or from a lack of the requisite 

 care wliich such sorts demand. The 

 Fameuse apple, than which there is no 

 finer dessert fruit, is very small and 

 scabby in some localities, and in others 

 remarkably tine. During the past 

 summer Mr. J. J. Thomas, chairman 

 of our committee, compared specimens 

 of the new Kieffer pear which were 

 grown in Rochester with those from 

 New Jersey, and found the former too 



