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original tree brought to England eight hundred years ago, by Thomas 

 a'Becket, and from which he says he has eaten fruit each year for 

 many years past. 



I will be pleased to send ray paper " Fig Culture at the NortTi a 

 Success''' to any address, (the party enclosing a postage stamp) though 

 perhaps the full publication of the practical part of it in the July 

 number, will obviate the necessity of your readers ordering it. 



We have received the following article from B. Gott, Arkona, in 

 response to our request that he would give the readers of the 

 Canadian Horticulturist the benefit of his experience in growing 

 peaches for market, and we are sure our readers will join us in thank- 

 ing him for his kind and ready response. 



PEACHES MOST PEOFITABLE FOR MARKET m OUR 



CLIMATE. 



BY B. GOTT, ARKONA- 



By the terra "our climate," I mean those conditions of atmosphere 

 .and earthly surroundings common to a large part of western Ontario. 

 By the word "market," we understand any market in this country that 

 ^3 the readiest attainable. This western Ontario is a hard region in 

 which to think of growing tender and luscious peaches, and will in no 

 respect compare for this purpose with the congenial and far-famed 

 Atlantic sea-board, where early peaches of the finest character are so 

 largely grown. Yet by some unexplaiuable and mysterious Providence 

 over us, peaches are grown — and, moreover, are grown in large 

 quantities — and to our utter astonishment they are not so bad in size, 

 texture, flavor and general appearance and quality. We ourselves 

 have been engaged in the patience-trying business of peach growing 

 in this section of western Ontario for ten years, and during all that 

 time we have never had an off year, that is, a year when we have not 

 had peaches. In some seasons our crop has amounted from our own 

 orchards to between two hundred and tliree hundrecf bushels. Of 

 course this looks rather small for a business, but you will please bear 

 in mind that we are not yet fairly established, but are testing, trying, 

 -or experimenting in this matter, like mariners on an unknown sea, 



