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liere again conies the hut — the quality of the fruit is not of tlie highest 

 ■order. However, that may not be a serious objection ; many of the 

 most popular fruits in our mai-kets are not fruits of the highest excel- 

 lence of flavor. It lias the advantage of beginning to bear early, and 

 blooms late, so as to escape the late spring frosts, and is a popular 

 variety in tlie Western States. 



The AValbridge (Edgar Eed Streak) is one of the very hardy kinds 

 that has lately been brought into notice, which is said to be productive 

 and a late keeper. 



The Pewaukee is another of these very hardy sorts which keeps 

 through the winter, but we do not yet know enough of them here to 

 .give an opinion of their value for profitable market orcharding. In 

 time there will doubtless be found some varieties more hardy than E. 

 I. Greening and Baldwin that can be profitably planted for market 

 purposes in the climate of Barrie, but we must not forget that there 

 are also climatic boundries to successful market orcharding, and the 

 man whose orchard lies within these limits will possess advantages 

 that will enable him to grow more and better fruit than can be grown 

 ■elsewhere, and hence will find his orchard more profitable. 



THE JAPANESE PEESIMMON. 



This fruit has been extensively advertized of late, not only under 

 the name given above, but under the more pretentious title, " Fruit of 

 the Gods." It is heralded as the popular fruit of Japan and of China, 

 as coming into bearing very early, and as being very ornamental when 

 loaded with yellow or vermillion fruit as large as apples. The flavor 

 is said to be something so unique and delightful that any attempt at 

 description must fail to give any adequate conceptions of its delicious- 

 ness. No one seems as yet to have eaten a specimen in the fresh state; 

 only dried samples that have come to us through the manipulations of 

 oriental conservers of fruits have been tasted, so that no one knows how 

 much of the flavor is to be set down to nature and how much to art. 



Nevertheless, it is very possible that horticultural enterprize will be 

 quite equal to the task of bringing this highly praised fruit to the 

 attention of Canadian planters, and that with the high-colored pictures 

 of 80 showy a fruit, and the high-colored descriptions of its delicious 



