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way of the trellis, and have discarded 

 many, such as the Adirondac, for which 

 I paid .f 5,00 for a small vine, Ontario, 

 Northern Muscadine, Isabella, Iona,Con- 

 cord, Creveling, Pocklington, Rogers' 

 15, 19, 22, 43; the 44 is the best, 

 though not yet tested by me. 



I have the Niagara, Woodruff, Jef- 

 ferson, Lady Washington, Duchess? 

 Walter, Wilder, Brant, and Early Vic- 

 tor. The Duchess and Lady Washing- 

 ton both fruited and partially ripened ; 

 some berries of the Lady Washington 

 were very high flavored and fine. I 

 hope, in a favorable season, they will 

 delight us with their large and showy 

 clusters, as well as the popular Niagara. 



PLUMS. 



The Glass Seedling Plum is very 

 fine, all that was claimed for it ; a 

 good, hardy grower, and fine bearer ; 

 is not surpassed for canning, and has 

 but few equals. 



Moore's Arctic and Curculio proof 

 tree has blossomed around me in several 

 places, while the larger and older tree 

 I have has not yet done so ; neither 

 have I seen any fruit of it in my neigh- 

 borhood, for the curculios destroyed 

 them all every time. It appears a 

 very tender tree ; I have grafted it on 

 others several times ; they have always 

 frozen in winter, besides common sorts, 

 as Washington, Princess, Peach, Egg, 

 Lombard, tfec, have come out all right. 

 My original tree is still sound, and I 

 hope to see the fruit this coming year. 

 I am trying the Shippers Pride — the 

 trees have done well so far ; will report 

 on them further on. The Russian 

 Apple received last spring has grown 

 fairly, but I do not think they are an 

 • xtra strong grower. 



fay's red CURRANT, 



of which we have such splendid draw- 

 ings in our paper, have surpiissed every 

 other currant in growth so far, except 

 the Raby Castle which, I think, will 



fill the next place to it as far as yet 

 tested. 



RASPBERRIES. 



I only keep a few varieties, and have 

 held on to the old Red Antwerp for 

 30 yeai-s, and have been well pleased 

 with results. Laterly, I have planted 

 Cuthbert, Philadelphia, Reliance, Vic- 

 toria, Franconia, and several others. 

 I can't say that I find any surpassing 

 the old Antwerp ; the Cuthbert comes 

 nearest in quality and productiveness, 

 and stands second in our list. We 

 gathered by the pailful off a small plot 

 till we did not want any more, and 

 then gave pailfuls away. The apple 

 crop is our principal crop. Small 

 fruits call for so much time to market 

 that we cannot attend to it. 



APPLES. 



I am looking hopefully to the Rus- 

 sian family for something to turn up ; 

 some kind of winter fruit that will 

 save with the Golden Russet, and prove 

 as prolific and showy as the Olden- 

 hurgh, that will be a strong and vig- 

 orous grower to retop our 2nd and 3rd 

 class fruits. Very many kinds are 

 appearing to fail both in quality, quan- 

 tity, and the general appearance be- 

 coming nubby-spotted, worthless for 

 shipping— such as the Snow ; it is 

 played out, constitution gone, while 

 the tree may be made profitable by 

 retopping. The Swaar, Fall Pippin, 

 Yellow Pippin, Jeneting, Benoni, Yel- 

 low Harvest, and a lot of others too 

 numerous to mention, and the sooner 

 the Fruit Growei-s get into something 

 large and fine the better ! and what 

 shall it be? Have you, Mr. Editor, 

 ever seen or grown the famed Non- 

 pariel, of Nova Scotia ; I would like to 

 try it in Canada. If any of your 

 reader's can direct me where I can find 

 it, it will N3 esteemed a favor. 

 Yours truly, 



J. P. Williams. 



