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This is sufficient proof that this variety 

 will be too tender for Eastern Ontario. 

 T had two trees Beauty of Kent, one 

 Fall Pippin, one Sweet Bough, bearing 

 trees, all winter killed ; also a row of 

 young trees of Gravenstein, eveiy one 

 killed. My Glass Seedling plum sur- 

 vived ; the fruit buds were all killed, 

 but the tree was not injured. I had a 

 fine McLaughlin plum tree killed. My 

 Flemish Beauty and Clapp's Favorite 

 pear trees came through the winter un- 

 injured, only the fruit buds were killed. 

 All the other varieties of pear trees 

 that I liad were winter killed. The 

 Swayzie Pommie Grise and Grime's 

 Golden apple trees are growing fine ; 

 they are hardy. Grime's Golden has 

 borne some fruit for three years. My 

 Burnet grape made a large growth last 

 year, but bore no fruit, which disap- 

 pointed me very much. I think I 

 over-manured it ; it came into blossom 

 the latter part of July, and the blos- 

 soms all fell off. Do you think that 

 over-manuring would make it act in 

 this way ] All my other varieties of 

 grapes bore heavy, but none got any 

 manure. I removed the surface earth 

 from my Burnet, and put a heavy coat 

 of rotten manure over the roots : then 

 put the earth back again over the 

 manure. I have heard that grapes 

 •will stand any amount of fertilizing, 

 but I think that I overdid it. I find 

 the Burnet needs but very little winter 

 protection. 



The cold days for the Winter are as 

 follows : November, 4 days thermo- 

 meter below zero, the lowest being 11 

 degrees; December, 1 day 10 below 

 zero ; January, 1 7 days thermometer 

 below zero, the lowest being 24 — it 

 went to this tigiire three times ; Feb- 

 ruary, 10 days below zero, the lowest 

 25 degree-s. The average cold for 11 

 days, taking the last four days of Jan- 

 uary and til© first seven days of Feb- 

 ruary, was 12 J degrees below zero. 



The ground was well covered wiih snow 

 the whole winter. Yours respectfully, 

 A. Bridge. 

 West Brook, near Kingston, March, 1882. 



FRUITS IN ALGOMA. 



Mr. Editor, — I have been on the 

 point of writing to you for some time, 

 but have not, as I have been trying to 

 promote the interest of our Association; 

 but as this is a newly settled part of 

 the country, and some have not enough 

 land under cultivation to allow them 

 to set apart an orchard, so they say 

 they would rather wait a while longer, 

 and see how the trees and vines giow 

 and stand the winters before purchasing 

 for themselves. We have quite a 

 variety of wild fruits, such as straw- 

 ben-ies, raspberries, gooseben-ies, cran- 

 berries, and • I have heard of a few 

 wild grapes, but as I have not seen 

 any, T cannot speak about them. There 

 are also some very old apple trees on 

 this island which bear fruit most sea- 

 sons, but seldom have a chance to ripen, 

 as the Indian and half-breed pick them 

 before they ripen. One of my neigh- 

 bours ripened a few bunches of Concord 

 grapes last season. I have four Con- 

 cord and four Isabella vines, but they 

 are not bearing yet. I expect they 

 will have some fruit this summer. All 

 small fruits will do well here, and I 

 think that if we can get the most hardy 

 that will ripen early, that we can grow 

 apples. I don't see why we should 

 not, as our climate is no worse than 

 that of CoUingwood or Goderich, and 

 they grow fruit in these townshipg. 

 Also at Sault St. Mary's, I am told, 

 they have fine orchards, and ripen their 

 fruit. Most of the tops of my apple, 

 pear, plum and cherry trees got killed 

 last winter, but sprouted out of the 

 stems or roots. I will still protect 

 them, and see if I can make anything 

 out of them. I intend trying some 



