44 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUEIST. 



C. M. Honsberger, Jordan Station : I came here to listen to this 

 discussion on the quince. It thrives well in my section, and I shall 

 plant more largely of it, believing that it will pay as well as any fruit 

 crop. The soil that I have selected for my quince orchard is a gravelly 

 clay loam. 



Thomas Beall, Lindsay : I live too far north to grow quinces. A 

 few are brought to our market and sell at from eight to ten dollars per 

 bushel. 



Chas. Arnold, Paris : Cannot sell them, believe that a very few 

 would be sufficient to supply the market. 



A. McD. Allan, Goderich : But few are grown in Goderich, and 

 these find a market there. They succeed best in clay loam, thoroughly 

 drained, and manured with plenty of salt. 



W. Roy, Owen Sound : I have the Portugal variety, it ripens very 

 late, quite into October. Quince preserves is a very favorite article 

 on all the ocean steamers. 



Dr. Watt, Niagara: Would go' into the cultivation very cautiously^ 

 fearing that the market might easily be overstocked. 



" The best twenty varieties of apple for cultivation in Ontario." 



Chas. Arnold, Paris, read the following paper : 



In expressing an opinion as to the best twenty varieties of apples, 

 it is not likely that any two of us will agree, as each person will view 

 the matter from a different stand-point, and we all have different 

 tastes. Some of us have not ground for more than five or six apple 

 trees, and yet are desirous of having at least twenty varieties of apples, 

 in such cases the only way would be to graft several varieties upon 

 one tree. I do not know of any twenty pets that would afford more 

 pleasure than the twenty varieties of apples that I am about to name, 

 or any twenty varieties that would be more profitable. Now, from my 

 stand-point, the sorts which I will mention would be my twenty 

 varieties, whether I were confined to five trees, with twenty varieties 

 grafted upon them, or whether I had five thousand trees. In the latter 

 case of course it would be necessary to know your place of marketing 

 and be governed by the likes and dislikes of that market, in regard to 

 the number of the different varieties to be planted. 



Many persons will, no doubt, be surprised at the large proportion 

 of early apples in my list, but I would ask, is there any more difficulty 

 in shipping early summer apples to England than there is in shipping 



