The Canadian Horticulturist. 71 



Peaches and Plums for East Middlesex. 



7§2. Sir, — Please give me a list of six peaches and six plums beat adapted to the 

 climate of East Middlesex, the thermometer dropping to 25 below zero. 



G, H. Nixon, Hyde Park. 



We could not recommend any variety of peach for such a temperature. 

 The plums are hardier, and you should succeed with such varieties as Lombard, 

 Bradshaw, Green Gage, German Prune, Italian Prune, Yellow Egg, etc. 



The Lawver Apple. 



7S3> Sir, — Please give me a description of the Lawver apple. I have some trees 

 bearing, which I purchased for that variety, but which I fear are not true to name. 



G. H. N. 



The following is the description : — Tree vigorous, spreading, an early and 

 annual bearer. jFrut'f large, roundish, oblate. Color, dark bright red, covered 

 with small dots. Stalk medium, cavity deep, regular. Calyx small, closed. 

 Basin medium, furrowed. Flesh white, firm, crisp, sprightly aromatic, mild, 

 sub-acid. January to May. 



Alkaline Wash for Pear Trees. 



7S4« Sir, — If the bark is first scraped off pear trees, would strong lye wash injure 

 them? G. H. N. 



If too strong it would. One pound concentrated lye to three gallons water 

 is strong enough. 



Weeping Ornamental Trees. 



783. Sir, — How are weeping ornamental trees propagated ? 



D. B. H. 



The weeping varieties of a tree are usually top grafted upon standard 

 upright growing varieties either of the same or some allied kind of tree. 



Tree Pseonia. 



786. Sir,— How are tree pseonies propagated, by slips, or root sprouts. 



D. B. Hoover, Almira. 



The shrubby, or Tree paeonia, is sometimes propagated by layers, but 

 usually by grafting slips or scions upon the stout fleshy roots of the herbaceous 

 paeonia. This kind does not succeed as well in Canada as in Europe. Our 

 summers are not so favorable, and our early spring frosts injurious to their best 

 success. 



