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thus be easily drawn, and will often be 

 of practical benefit in planning work. 

 For example, here are a few extracts 

 for the month of May for six years, 

 without, of course, showing the form, 

 which would require too much space : 



1874.— 18th, Peach blossoms. 25th, Apple 

 bloom. 



1875.— Ist, Snow. 7th to nth, Wet. 22nd, 

 Cherry and plum bloom. 26th, 

 Killing tent-caterpillars. 27th, 

 Apple bloom, 



1876.— 18th, Peach and cherry bloom. 20th, 

 Transplanting tomatoes. 25th, Kill- 

 ing tent-caterpillars. 26th, Apple 

 bloom. 



1877. — 3rd, Sowing early com, planting pear, 

 quince and peach trees. 8th, Started 

 cultivator among currant, straw- 

 berry and blackberry plants. 15th, 

 Peach bloom. 18th, Hot. Corn 

 up. 20th, Apple bloom. 22nd, 

 Kain. 23rd, Transplanting from 

 hot beds. 24th, Killing tent-cater- 

 pillars. 25th, 10 acres ready for 

 corn. 30th, Killing cankerworms 

 with garden syringe and Paris green. 



1878.— 3rd, Apple bloom. 5th to 8th, Too 

 wet for working soil. 9th, Trans- 

 planting from hot beds. 10th, Cold 

 and chilly. 13th, White frost cut- 

 ting off beans, tomatoes, straw- 

 berries, cherries, potatoes, &;c. 21st, 

 Com all planted. 24th, Hot. 25th, 

 Killing tent-caterpillars. 30th, Dig- 

 ging out peach borer. 



1879. — Great drouth through the whole 

 month. 17th, Peach bloom. 23rd, 

 Apple bloom. 26th, Killing tent- 

 caterpillars. 



1880.— 5th, Peach and cherry bloom. 11th, 

 Apple bloom. 18th to 30th, Very 

 dry. 



Bearing qualities of various kinds of 

 Apple trees. — This would be a very 

 pmctical subject for discussion on some 

 occasion, and a great deal of interesting 

 data might be gathered. According to 

 my own experience the leading apple 

 in this respect is the Rhode Island 

 Greening. One old tree of huge dimen- 

 sions, about seventy years of age, pro- 

 duces enormous crops, almost beyond 

 credulity. One season the huge yield 



of twenty baiTels was taken from it, 

 and from fifteen to seventeen barrels is 

 by no means an unusual quantity each 

 alternate year. 



I do not think any other kind will 

 equal this one for productiveness. The 

 Baldwin, at maturity, will yield eight 

 or ten barrels, the Snow or Faraense 

 about six, while the Fall Pippin and 

 the Early Harvest yield about four 

 barrels each every alternate year. 



Now, if we could obtain from various 

 sections of the country information as 

 to the productiveness of the various 

 kinds of apples, it would be a very use- 

 ful aid to those wishing to select varie- 

 ties for orchard planting, because it 

 would help them to determine what 

 varieties would give the highest net 

 returns per acre. 



FRUITS OF MANCHURIA. 



An interesting letter has been re- 

 ceived by Mr. Thomas Beall, Lindsay, 

 one of the Directoi-s of the Fruit Growers' 

 Association of Ontario, brought out by 

 inquiries made by him concerning the 

 fruits of Northern China, or properly 

 Manchuria, with a view to ascertain 

 whether there might not be some found 

 there which, on account of their ability 

 to endure extreme cold, might be worthy 

 of introduction for planting in the more 

 northern parts of this Province. The 

 letter is dated at Newchwang, 23rd 

 February, 1882, and is as follows : 



''My Dear Doctor Watson, — I 

 fear the fruit trees of this Province are 

 valueless for the purposes of the Ontario 

 Association. The gooseberry does not 

 exist here, and the raspberry is only 

 known in a wild state (in the south of 

 the Province). I have not seen the 

 cherry here, the fruit we eat being 

 imported from Chihli or Shantung — in 

 which latter Province I have seen fair 

 specimens, but none which would repay 

 transportation. The native plum I 



