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demands. Enquiries are now being made— both by extensive and 

 diligent reading and by expensive and laborious visiting of plantations 

 already made, as to the most desirable soils, as to the mode of culture 

 and the varieties best adapted to the purpose. All this is a pleasing 

 feature in our progressive Canadian horticulture, and we are improving 

 by it in moral character, in healthfulness and in national position and 

 worth. Whatever stimulates our enquiries, fosters our industries, or 

 promotes our independence, happiness and general prosperity, is a 

 personal and national blessing of the highest type. 



As for the preference of varieties, our experience this season has de- 

 monstrated most decidedly in favor of Clark, Turner, Naomi, and 

 Philadelphia, for red ; Brinkle's Orange or White Antwerp, for white, 

 and for black. Mammoth Cluster, Seneca or Ohio Everbearing. These 

 are doubtless the most profitable varieties to reward our careful culti- 

 vation, and will in their progressive ripening amply meet the most 

 covetous demands of "a well regulated family." 



HINTS ON CLASSIFICATION OF APPLES. 



Professor Beal, of Lansing, Michigan, suggested to the members of 

 the American Pomological Society, at their recent meeting, that he 

 thought that by careful attention to the variety of form in the petals 

 of the flowers of different varieties of apples, some further distinguishing 

 marks might be found which would aid in making descriptions of 

 apples more accurate and certainly distinguishing. Thus far the des- 

 criptions given are confined to the form and color and other peculiarities 

 of the fruit alone, but his examinations have led him to believe that 

 the size and shape of the petals are quite constant in any given variety, 

 so that by the addition of a description of the size and form of the 

 petals a greater degree of certainty may be secured in the description 

 of any particular variety. He also had found that the length and 

 breadth of the style of the flower might be also noted for the same end. 

 This will open up a new and very interesting field of investigation 

 for parties interested in the proper classification of fruit ; and the re- 

 sults may be of considerable value to fruit growers generallv. 



