THE CANADIAN HORTI0ULTUR18T. 



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ingly fine quality, is less vigorous and 

 productive here than Delaware, but 

 without exaggeration a finer grape in 

 flavor. A vine of it should he in 

 every collection. 



Still hold Lady and Martha as good 

 profitable varieties ; Allen's Hybrid, 

 Sweetwater, and Dr. Underhill's Cro- 

 ton for tine quality of fruit, though un- 

 reliable some seasons. Empire State, 

 Centennial, Jessica, Hayes' Golden 

 Drop, and Niagara have not fruited. 



Noah, Elvira, Irving, Astrachan, Eva, 

 Rebecca and Perkins I have discarded 

 and dug up. 



Some years since, from the remark- 

 able adaptability of this section for fruit 

 culture, I made a venture with several 

 early foreign vinery varieties to test for 

 out-door culture, but one by one de- 

 parted, leaving only White Sweetwater 

 and Earlv Auvergne Frontignan. The 

 latter, with good nursing and bagging 

 its elegant bunches, gave good results 

 and a rich, spicy berry, resembling the 

 imported Malaga. 



Yours truly, 



Wm. Mead Pattison. 



Clarenceville, Que. 



REPORT ON TREES, SEEDS, &c., 



RECEIVED FROM IHE F. O. ASS'n FOR TRIAL. 



They have nearly all j)roved desirable, 

 ome indispensable, some I would not 

 jM-obably have had but for my connec- 

 tion with the Society, and would not 

 be without for many times the price of 

 membership. 



The McLaughlin plum, Cla[)p's Fa- 

 vorite and Beurre d'Anjou j>eai-s, 

 < Crime's Golden apple. Downing goose- 

 'hutv, Saunders' Hybrid raspberry, are 

 1 1 fruits of high, or highest, merit in 

 their respective classes. 



The Glass plum grows well, is a fine 

 fruit, but unproductive, seems much 

 l)etter on limestone soils. 



The Red raspl)eii-y is well flavored, 

 but the acini, or fruit grains, crumble 



at the touch, and it out-suckers the 

 whole State of Indiana. 



I have lost some two or three kinds 

 by accident, and others I have not 

 had long enough to report satisfactorily 

 upon. 



The Hydrangea, thoroughly hardy, 

 is one of the indispensables, reinforcing 

 the floral ranks at the right time to 

 })revent a break or halt in the pageant 

 of beauty and grandeur, as it marches 

 athwart the calendar up to when 

 " Stern winter shuts the scene." 

 I think that thorough, even severe, 

 pruning out all weak wood much im- 

 proves the size and richness of the 

 panicles, especially of the later bloom- 

 ing, which otherwise are liable to fall 

 off, somewhat, in these qualities. 



Fansies. — I must not omit the Pan- 

 sies. The seed grew well, the flowers, 

 exquisite, and so large, — considering 

 the stnun, two inches, full, over banner 

 and keel, and the wings, — and replete 

 with expression. There are some varie- 

 ties that lack this pensi character- 

 istic and its charm, wanting which it 

 scarcely deserves the name of pansy. 

 The white and yellow, though pretty 

 enough as flowera. are wanting in that 

 wonderful look which moves one to ask, 



'• Of what may that flower be thioking ?" 



I have never seen a really good picture 

 of the pansy. The artists do not seem 

 to catch the spirit of the fairy dream, 

 woven into and pervading the form and 

 color. I venture to predict that if ever 

 the pansy loses its popularity, it will be 

 through the " new variety " men flood- 

 ing the market with their speechless, 

 soulless, idiotic looking pets under the 

 name of |>ansies. I saved seed from 

 some of the l)est, and the children were 

 quite equal to the parents. They ob- 

 served the fifth commandment, which 

 was very proper in a flOwer capable of 

 thinking, and therefore morally res- 

 l)onsible. 



My Asters were not good. A large 



