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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



and a shade later in ripening. The 

 Burnet has proved a fair grower, not 

 too rampant, a moderate bearer, bunches 

 and berry resembling the Isabella, but 

 not quite so large, and liable to be in- 

 terspersed with a few small, seedless 

 berries. Its time of ripening is about 

 the same as the Concord, and when 

 fully ripe its flavour is delicious. The 

 Prentiss, received in 1884, grew well 

 that season, but was found dead next 

 spring. 



These are all received from the As- 

 sociation that I have to report on. I 

 would only add that it is useless to 

 plant grapes here that do not ripen 

 with or before the Concord. They 

 have all to be covered in winter. 



If the correspondents of your excel- 

 lent journal would be a little more 

 particular in indicating their locality, 

 it would add much to the usefulness of 

 their experiences. For my own part, 

 I have spent a good deal of money, 

 time and labor in experimenting with 

 apples, plums and grapes highly recom- 

 mended in south-western Ontario, 

 which are utterly worthless here. 



HoBERT Lees. 



Wildwood, near Ottawa City. 



THE WEIGELA. 



Referring to a note in your February 

 number, the Weigela has grown and 

 blossomed with me six or seven years 

 without winter protection. R. Lees. 



Wildwood, near Ottawa City. 



The Horticulturist is a very welcome 

 visitor here, and is always improving. 



THE BURNET GRAPE, ETC. 



As Mr. S. P. Morse gives some very 

 good advice to the readers of your pa- 

 per to send their experiences, also 

 their successes and failures in all the 

 different branches of horticulture, I 

 will try in my humble way to contri- 

 bute my mite, in the hope that others 

 m^y do the same. 



The Burnet grape has only had a 

 few grapes on it once, as it kills down 

 badly, but I shifted it to a more shel- 

 tered place last year, so I am in hopes 

 it will do a little better. Moore's 

 Early has not done very well, although 

 it has not had a very good chance The 

 Ontario apple has done very well, and 

 I am well pleased with the fruit. The 

 original tree has been in bearing three 

 years; besides, several grafts which I 

 put on a Talman Sweet have been 

 bearing two or three years. Fay's Pro- 

 lific currant made good growth last 

 season. The currant borer is pretty 

 bad here, having killed a good many of 

 our plants. We have had no reason to 

 complain of the productiveness of most 

 of the old varieties of currants, of 

 which we have the common red and 

 white, white grape and red cherry, 

 which we think is very sour. We also 

 have the Black Naples currant, which 

 did middling so long as it got good 

 care. Gooseberries do splendidly here 

 when properly attended to, and the 

 worms kept off with hellebore. Hough- 

 ton's seedling has been very productive. 

 We have two or three English varie- 

 ties ; also the Downing, which does 

 very well. Peaches are a failure, ex- 

 cept on very dry land, and sheltered. 

 The common early cherry does very 

 well, but if we want to get many we 

 will have to grow enough for the birds 

 and ourselves too. Samuel Carr. 



Sarnia. 



APPLES, PLUMS, GRALES, ETC. 



I have never yet sent you any report 

 of my plants received from the Associ- 

 ation, but will endeavour to do so now. 

 My first were a Wagner apple and Mc- 

 Laughlin plum. Through neglect the 

 apple died last year, the boi-er having 

 girdled it just at the collar, and being 

 engaged in other work I neglected it. 

 The plum is yet alive, and I esteem it 

 very highly. I have some Wagners 



