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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



The leaves of a tree, being- its lung-s, are 

 active in the summer supplying the carbon 

 necessary to the building- up of the tissues, 

 and the work is scarcely completed in Aug- 

 ust. A little later the vigor of the leaves is 

 absorbed into the wood, and being of no 

 further service, they g-radually fall. Then 

 such pruning is safer. Possibly, however, 

 these trees, being- of a vigorous habit, 

 may overcome the severe treatment 



given them and show little evil re- 

 sultant. 



Fruits for Name. 



Mr. W. Jeffers Diamond, Belleville. The 

 apple is Wealthy ; the pear probably Tyson. 



Mr. W. J. Clarke, (postoffice not given.) 

 The pear marked B. is Vicar, a winter pear; 

 that marked D. is too ripe for identification. 



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Fig. 2i8r. A Four Year Old Seedling Peach Grown by Mr. D. Sake, 

 Rose Villa, London, Ont, 



Rainbow Peach. 



Dear Sir, — I am sending by this mail three 

 photographs of psach grown by me. Our president, 

 Mr. John Balkwill, advised me that when writing 

 you with regard to the same I was not only to 

 make photographs, but was to give you a history 

 of the tree, so as you could give it a place in your 

 valuable journal. My wife and I bought some 

 peaches when at Mackinac Island in August, 1897. 

 My wife put two or three of the stones in her trunk 

 and on our return home I planted the same ; the 

 following spring they grew, one of them more 



vigorous than the others. I gave this one p:irtic- 

 ular attention as to pruning, etc., and have been 

 rewarded this spring by seeing my tree well cov- 

 ered with bloom. The tree set about one hundred 

 peaches, which were thinned out to about thirty, 

 and I harvested about twenty very fine peaches, 

 four of them weighing one pound six ounces and a 

 half and each measured in diameter as near as pos- 

 sible three and a half inches ; the rest of the peaches 

 were all ver}^ fine but not quite so large as these. 

 The fruit is'very fl<='Shy, luscious, and has a very 

 small stone ; the color is a golden yellow inside 

 with pink markings, finer peaches we have never 



