C|e faabiatt Portimltarist 



VOL. IL] FEBRUAEY, 1879. [No. 2. 



IRO;^-CLAD FEUIT TEEES. 



An effort is being made by interested persons to call the attention 

 of Canadian planters to certain varieties of trees to which they have 

 given the appellation of iron-clads, and to produce the impression that 

 the trees they are selling are new sorts of recent introduction, natives 

 of nortliern latitudes, improved to very high quality by careful 

 hybridization and culture. In order to impress more full}i» upon the 

 mind of the public the value and novelty of these iron-clads, the trees 

 are offered to them at seventy-five cents apiece for the apple trees and 

 from one dollar to a dollar and a half for the pear and cherry trees. 

 If the trees which are thus sold by them at these prices could not be 

 afforded at a less price, no one could make any objection, and it would 

 he cheaper in the end to the planter in northern latitudes to pay these 

 1 trices for hardy trees 'than to plant those which will not endure the 

 climate. But on examining the list of varieties mentioned in the 

 circular which is put into the hands of our farmers, one finds among 

 them that well known apple, the Tetofsky. This has been in culti- 

 vation by Canadian nurserymen for at least fifteen years, and any 

 ' armer in the Province can obtain it if he wishes for twenty-five cents. 

 Another variety is the Duchess of Oldenburgh, which can be had of 

 any of our leading nurserymen at the same price as any other apple 

 tree, and which has been already widely disseminated by them and 

 extensively planted. Another variety is the Grime's Golden, which 

 was distributed a number of years ago by the Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion to all its members, and which may be had as cheap as any other 

 apple tree. The two varieties of pear which are offered as iron-clads 

 at these exhorbitant prices are tlie Flemish Beauty and Clapp's 

 Favorite. The former of these has been in cultivation in this country 

 so long that the latter has been grown from seed of the Flemish 

 Beauty, by Mr. Clapp, so that the mother and daughter — the daughter 



