THE CANADIAN HOBTIOtLTtJElSt. 



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SAUNDERS' HYBRID RASPBERRY. 



Dear Sir, — Having fruited Saun- 

 ders' Hybrid Raspberry for three years 

 or more, I can say that it does splen- 

 didly with me. My soil is a clay Joani. 

 The Raspberry should have a place in 

 every garden. Luke Bishop. 



St. Thomas, Ont. 



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THE SALOME APPLE. 



The Salome apple seems to be grow- 

 ing in favor in Illinois, being very 

 hardy, productive, and a long keeper. 

 The apple is of very good quality, size 

 only medium, color from a light to a 

 dark red or nearly so. Bears well an- 

 nually, but more heavily alternate 

 years. Keeps well until May or even 

 June. The Western Rural says in the 

 issue of June 13th, that samples re- 

 ceived at that ofl5ce from Mr. A. 

 Bryant, were then as sound as bullets, 

 and gave evidence of being good 

 keepers. — Farm and Garden. 



HARDIEST KNOWN GOOD PLUMS. 



Mrs. A. P. of New Hampshire, after 

 saying that Moore's Arctic has not pro- 

 ven hardy, asks is there a hardier plum 

 known of good quality. 



On the grounds of the Agricultural 

 (Jollege near Moscow, and later at Ka- 

 zcn, and through Central Russia, we 



saw trees laden with red, yellow, blue 

 and dark purple plums, of really excel- 

 lent quality. These cultivated varieties 

 seem to have originated from the ap- 

 parently indigenous, low, round-topped 

 bushes which we found on the edges of 

 the timber belts along the Volga and 

 other streams of East Russia. In leaf, 

 bud and texture of fruit, these indige- 

 nous forms resemble the Prunus spinosa 

 of Siberia. We saw thousands of these 

 bushes laden with blue fruit with a rich 

 bloom, which were not more than three 

 feet in height. 



The cultivated varieties make low, 

 bushy, round-topped trees not over ten 

 feet high. We imported small trees 

 from Moscow of red, yellow and dark- 

 blue varieties, which we have sent out 

 as Nos. I, 2 and 3. The Russian names 

 received are long and to us unmeaning. 

 The specimens have not fruited as yet, 

 but the foliage endures perfectly our 

 hot, dry Summer ; wood ripens up per- 

 fectly in Autumn, and has not colored 

 in the least during the past test Win- 

 ters in Iowa, Minnesota, or North Da- 

 kota. 



The question as to their final value 

 does not hinge on their hardiness, or 

 the quality of their fruit ; but on their 

 habits of bearing with us, and their 

 relative exemption from the attacks of 

 the curculio. As they blossom late, 

 and the fruit develops rapidly, they will 

 be apt, like our native De Soto, Wolf 

 Plum, Rollingstone, etc., to measurably 

 escape the curculio on account of their 

 succulence during the period of their 

 rapid development. 



We are also testing a large blue plum, 

 called *' Moldavka " in Central Russia, 

 with six other sorts from Aral. They 

 are all as hardy as our wild plums ; all 

 bear fine fruit in their native country, 

 and all have the habit of late bloom- 

 ing and rapid development of fruit. 

 — PaoF. J. L. BuDD. 



