THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



be peaches, g;rapes or plums from the 

 natural level, or pears and plums from the 

 higher levels, everything" in sample and 

 quality is first-class. Mr. Orr is a believer 

 in thorough cultivation, and in giving all 

 there is in the soil to the fruit crop. He 

 also follows a thorough system of spraying. 

 What attracted my attention much on 

 this visit, as on previous ones, was the bar- 

 renness of the apple orchards. And I wonder 

 why so many progressive fruit-growers still 

 encumber their valuable grounds with apple 

 trees that I have not seen a paying crop 

 upon in ten years. On a farm so generally 

 fruitful, and so well cultivated as is Mr. M. 

 Pettit's, I observed an orchard of thrifty 

 Baldwin and Greening trees with no fruit on 

 them. Up in this county of Perth we can 

 grow more Baldwins on six trees than I have 

 ever seen on Mr. Pettit's whole six acres. 

 And what is true of Mr. Pettit's apple 

 orchard is true of every orchard I saw from 

 Grimsby to Hamilton. The trees seem to 

 have so entwined themselves about the 

 hearts, and grown into the memories of their 

 owners that the latter cannot bring their 



resolution into sufficient obedience to divine 

 injunction to hew them down and cast them 

 into the fire. Mr. Pettit, like many of his 

 neighbors, is wasting much valuable ground 

 in sparing those unprofitable apple trees. 



I found considerable interest in looking 

 through Mr. Pettit's experimental plot of 

 grape vines, which he keeps in fine order. 

 But the pleasure increases as one takes a 

 ramble through his extensive Mountain 

 Valley vineyard from which he gathered a 

 clean and heavy crop this year. 



I regretted very much not being able, for 

 lack of time, to get down as far as Maple- 

 hurst farm, the home of our editor and 

 secretary. I noticed much fine fruit from 

 his premises at the Pan-American, and un- 

 derstood at the time of my visit to Fruitland 

 that he was engaged in preparing an ex- 

 perimental shipment of pears to the old 

 country market. I also noted in passing 

 the improvements about his attractive home, 

 which is now a spot of beauty and a delight 

 to the eye of the passer-by and must be a 

 joy unspeakable to the heart of the in- 

 dweller. T. H. Race. 



Fig. 2188. A Vineyard at Stoney Creek, nlak Fkliila.m-. 



