Clje Canadian porticultarisi 



VOL. IL] OCTOBEE, 1879. [No. 10, 



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THE SUMMER MEETING. • 



3iscu8sion on "Transplanting Season" continued. 



P. C. Dempsey, Albury, thinks that the locality has much to do in 

 deciding at what season to plant. In cold latit^ides trees brought from 

 «, more southern climate and planted in the Ml suffer much from the 

 severity of the winter, and often perish. The soil also has much to do 

 with the matter. In light soils would tramp the ^arth firmly about 

 the roots. 



Rev. V, Clementi, Peterborough : I fail in fall planting, but 

 succeed in the spring. 



Henry Robertson, Collingwood, believes that fall planting is the 

 best in his section, at least those trees which he had planted in the 

 fall did well, while those planted in the spring largely failed. 



P. C. Dempsey, Albury, would plant sorts that were at all tender on 

 ground that sloped to the north. 



J. McD. Allan, Goderich, stated that in Maine the orchards were 

 planted mostly on the northern slopes; and that peach trees in his section 

 did best on the north side of a fence, on the south side they soon died, 



Chas. Arnold, Paris, grows peaches best on northern slopes. 



D. W, Beadle, St. Catharines, had noticed that peach trees on the 

 south side of buildings frequently lost their fruit, while the same 

 variety on the north side would bear a good crop. 



P. E. Bucke, Ottawa, stated that he had planted some filberts, part 

 on the north side of the fence and part on the south side ; those on the 

 south side were killed back every winter, but those on the north side 

 were not injured. 



The fruit committee presented their report on the fruits on exhi- 

 bition, in which they say that the Ontario Black Raspberry is a very fine 

 berry, fully as large as the Mammoth Cluster, and a few days earlier. 



