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I don't kaow. But they are good. I suppose the stones of these dried ones would grow. 

 They bring also green oval grapes, almonds, and such like things, also dried plums. I sel- 

 dom saw a village in the hills without its apricot orchard, I suppose a sort of common pro- 

 perty for the whole village. 



The Indian Government has its summer quarters at Simla, about 8,000 ft. elevation. 

 Here the apricots grow to some extent, but there are much more further in the interior. 

 The summer there is not at all warm : I was nearly two months there, (July and August), 

 and never saw a greater temperature than 65. But this was during the rainy season, and 

 in May and early June it may have been warmer. They cannot grow apples there, I sup- 

 pose on account of the great dampness and little sunshine, when apples most require it. 



Perhaps you have some of these Bokharian apricots on trial If there are any to spare 

 I should be glad of one. The "Siberian Apricot"' I have, has been winter killed more or 

 less, and it is a sort of low thick bush now but it does not blossom. I suppose it is one of 

 the common kind which is from a far warmer country than Canada. 



W. E. Brooks, Forest, Ont. 



Wintering the Hydrangea. 



Answer to Question yyi. 



Sir, — Noticing this question asked by " Iroquois," relative to the wintering 

 of the hydrangea, I may state that I have probably the largest and finest flowering 

 Hydrangea in the Ottawa valley. Each year it is covered with a mass of large 

 full blooms. It requires no winter protection even here where that season is 

 always severe, the mercury often falling to 40° and 42° below zero. It is 

 not protected from the wind which sweeps against it from the north with terrible 

 force. The snow that falls round it through winter is all the protection it gets, 

 but it comes out better each year. 



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