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THE CA.NADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



nearly one hundred original articles. 

 The Household and Childrens' Depart- 

 ment abound in illustrations, while 

 several new frauds are exposed in the 

 Humbug Department. Price, $1.50 

 per year; single numbers, 15 cents. 

 Address, American Agriculturist, 751 

 Broadway, New York. 



AN EXTENSIVE FRUIT FARM. 



The London Garden says that Lord 

 Sudeley is the only land owner in Eng- 

 land who has taken up fruit farming in 

 a thorough and business-like manner. 

 He has already planted 500 acres, and 

 200 more will be at once added. This 

 700-acre fruit garden is not like Mc- 

 Kinstry's 300-acre fruit orchard on the 

 Hudson, or some of the 500-acre peach 

 orchards at the South. It takes up no 

 fruit as a specialty, but embraces the 

 whole catalogue of large and small 

 fruits. It is situate in the northern 

 part of Gloucestershire, some forty or 

 fifty miles north-east of Bristol, and 

 cannot but be well situated for market, 

 in that full arrangements are made to 

 consume the whole of the fruit in home 

 manufacture. Although only four years 

 have elapsed since planting, 10 tons of 

 strawberries were raised last year, and 

 it is expected that 100 tons will be 

 grown the coming season. 



Our readers may judge of the miscel- 

 laneoiis character of the selections when 

 informed that the plantation includes 

 3,000 trees of the best sorts of apples, 

 800 pears, 32,000 plums, including 

 9,000 damsons, 50 acres of black cur- 

 rants, 100 acres of strawberries, and 60 

 acres of raspberries. The gooseberry 

 bushes number 130,000, the black cur- 

 rants number over 200,000. It is pro- 

 bable, we think, that experience will 

 cut down the lists of some of the fruits, 

 such, for instance, as the 44 different 

 kinds of plums, and the 45 different 

 varieties of tlie gooseberry. 



Shelter belts are regarded as impor- 

 tant, and such quick-growing sorts as 

 poplars and Scotch firs have been 

 placed around the plantation to shelter 

 it from prevailing winds. Beds of osiers 

 have been planted along the margin of 

 a stream and have succeeded so well 

 that the addition of 10 acres will sup- 

 ply all the materials for the baskets 

 needed on the estate. A nursery for 

 raising trees and bushes has been 

 formed, where standards, pyramids and 

 bushes of all sorts are grown, trained 

 and worked, and the owner is thus sure 

 of obtaining what he wants. It will 

 thus be seen that this is a complete 

 establishment within itself, including 

 the raising of the trees and plants for 

 setting out, the manufacture of the bas- 

 kets for the fruit, and the finishing pre- 

 paration of the fruit itself in jars for 

 market. Such a plantation as this, 

 with the great number of laborers 

 which it must profitably employ, affords 

 a favorable contrast to the large do- 

 mains kept only for hunting groupds. 

 — Country Gentleman. 



PRUNUS SIMONI. 



This new plum is a native of Northern 

 China, Eugene Simon, when French 

 Consul at Pekin, sent specimens of it 

 to the French Jardin des Plantes, 

 whence it was disseminated. Prof. 

 Budd has, through his writinors in the 

 Prairie Farmer, probably done more to 

 introduce this new fruit to the Ameri- 

 can public than any other person. In 

 the issue of June 17th, 1884, he said : 

 " Beyond all reasonable doubt this tree 

 will prove a valuable ornamental and 

 fruit tree on the prairies, wherever it 

 will endure our winters. The young 

 trees bore the past test winter on the 

 College farm far better than our apple 

 trees of the hardiness of Ben Davis. 

 * * * In all respects this is a 

 botanical curiosity. In color of bark, 



