36 THE CANADIAN HOETICULTURIST. 



Some new white grapes were mentioned, giving promise of being 

 valuable, the Pocldington, Prentiss, Niagara, and Duchess. ' 



With regard to the Paissian apples, P. Barry stated that none of 

 them were as valuable and as high flavored as our well known 

 American varieties. The Eed Astracan, Duchess of Oldenburg and 

 Alexander were among the best of them. Their value consisted in the 

 hardiness of the trees, enabling them to endure the rigours of very 

 cold climates, but they would not be grown where the higher flavored 

 American sorts succeeded. 



The following varieties of plum were named as being valuable for 

 planting for market, Peine Claude de Bavay, Lombard, Bradshaw, Coe's 

 Golden Drop, Hudson Eiver Purple Egg, Monroe Gage, and Shropshire 

 Damson. 



Several very interesting papers were read, to which we hope to 

 :refer at some future time. 



PEUIT TEEES IN THE OTTAWA VALLEY. 



LETTER FROM HUGH H. MCLATCHIE, TEMPLETON, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. 



I did not spend a dollar last year from which I got a better return 

 than from my subscription to the Fruit Growers' Association. 



I enclose a small piece of Eameuse wood showing how it is affected 

 by the frost. In the spring the sap flows up between the bark and 

 wood, the buds start, (except the tops of the branches,) but the wood 

 dies, turns white, and is soft in the centre, and the bark turns black. 

 Tlie Eed Astracan, Alexander, and Montreal Waxen do the same. 

 The wood of the Talman Sweet turns black, but does not rot the same 

 as the others mentioned. 



Does that not account, at least in part, for the fact that Ottawa 

 has imported seventeen thousand barrels of apples early this fall, and 

 the country around Ottawa annually import and plant thousands of 

 trees, yet the importation of fruit goes far to show that orchards are 

 scarce. 



When I first planted apple trees I thought the ironclads, such as 

 grow about Montreal, were hardy enough for this section, but I find 

 jt is steel-plated armor that is needed. I have tried dozens of varie- 

 ties^ and have not found one winter apple sufficiently hardy to stand 



