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almost any quantity, and nothing in- 

 jurious seemed to affect them or the 

 trees, but unfortunately it is not so now. 

 The fruit is attacked by the destroying 

 insect, and what is worse, the trees are 

 attacked by the deadly fungus, and dies 

 l)efore our eyes, and no helpful hand is 

 offered to cheer us in our despondency. 

 < >ur only relishable repasts of plums is 

 HOW in the recollection how we used to 

 feast upon them, and the tine crocks of 

 luscious preserves our mothers used to 

 put away for our winter's entertainment, 

 la some favored sections, however, the 

 plum was raised this season in tolerably 

 plentiful quantities. Favored spots on 

 the lake shore, and well sheltered and 

 properly exposed locations elsewhere, 

 made some fine showings, and partly 

 supplied the home demand. Up north, 

 in our neighboring county, the crop was 

 simply enormous, and these plums came 

 down by every express. There is only 

 one other fruit, viz., the peach, that 

 will supply the demand for plums ; but 

 this year there being no peaches, every 

 plum near was studiously looked up. 

 The varieties most popular are the 

 green plums, as Imperial Gage, and 

 other Gages, and the Lombard. The 

 larger plums are very desirable, but 

 these old and smaller sorts pay the best. 

 1 think the only proper resource open 

 for us to successfully grow phims, as 

 ilso pears and peaches, is " the selection 

 f proper locations and conditions." 

 (To he continued.) 



THE INDUSTRY GOOSEBERRY. 



I think that I recognize an old Friend 

 ill the Industry Gooseberry and in my 



liool-days all the other kinds in my 

 i ither's garden were safe while any 

 tVuit remained on it. But the name is 

 new. We called it Red Jacket. I will 

 send you a piece of wood and bark 

 from one of my dead apple trees to see 

 if the cause is known to you. Had 



several die the last season, some that 

 had been bearing. 



Robert Kennedy. 



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PEARS, PLUMS, AND CHERRIES. 



To THE Editor of the Canadian Horticulturist 



Sir, — To my experience with apple 

 trees in November number, 1885, page 

 249, 1 may add a little with other fruit 

 trees. I have tried one each of three 

 varieties of pears, the Bartlett, Flemish 

 Beauty and Lawrence, but they all died 

 of blight. The two first named died 

 the first summer. The Lawrence stood 

 it for about three years. In the spring 

 of 1883, I planted one each of three 

 varieties of plums, the Yellow Egg, 

 Yellow Gage and Imperial Gage. They 

 were all killed to the snow line the first 

 winter. At the same time I planted 

 one Early Richmond Cherry, which 

 seems to be pretty hardy so far. I 

 have two plum trees eight years planted 

 which are hardy, although their leaves 

 fell rather early this fall. I have a 

 Green Gage tree the same age, which 

 will neither die nor do well living. It 

 freezes back every winter, and bears 

 about half a dozen plums each summer. 



R. Scott. 

 Hopeville. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH STRAW- 

 BERRIES. 



1. I took 285 baskets of Wilson 

 Strawberries last summer from 90 

 square yards of ground. The plants 

 were set in April, 1883, in rows 2 J 

 feet apart. Simply kept clean and 

 slabs laid between the rows this last 

 season. From the same 90 yards I 

 took 21 bushels of Globe Mangels be- 

 tween the rows, some of which took a 

 prize at the Great Northern Exhibition 

 in Collingwood in 1884. 



2. This year (1885) I have tried a 

 plot three rods by five on the same 

 plan. The proceeds were (50 baskets of 



