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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



say here at the close, to any who would 

 like to have roses and who are deterred 

 from growing them on account of these 

 insect bug-bears, that if you have 

 already fought the Colorado Beetle with 

 any measure of success, and if you will 

 promise to take the same interest in 

 your roses that you have already done 

 in your potatoes you need have no fear 

 of the result. F. Mitchell. 



Innerkip, July 8th. 



BID WELL STKAWBERRY. 



Dear Sir, — I have a Bidwell straw- 

 berry in my garden measuring six and 

 one-half inches in circumference. Is 

 that not very good for a Bidwell ? 



Yours truly,' Dr. A. Harkness. 



Lancaster, June 28, 1886. 



THE GREGG RASPBERRY AT PETER- 

 BOROUGH. 



Dear Sir, — deferring to your note 

 in the July Horticulturist in reference 

 to the Gregg black cap, I may say that 

 after I have gathered what little fruit 

 my Gregg's will bear this year, I shall 

 dig them out. Though well sheltered 

 and on well drained land they have 

 winter-killed every season for four 

 years, so as scarcely to yield anything. 

 It is not more than a second quality 

 berry anyway. Yours truly, 



G. M. Roger. 



SOME HARDY SHRUBS. 



Dear Sir, — The dewberry is now 

 doing finely and so is the Fay's Prolific 

 Currant plant that I got last year ; 

 1885 being my first year a subscriber to 

 the Canadian Horticulturist. I like 

 the Horticulturist very well and es- 

 pecially the Annual Report of F. G. A. 

 of O. I have some plants that I think 

 will prove hardy in most parts of 

 Western Ontario. Daphne Cneorum 

 comes out in spring completely covered 

 with its sweet scented flowers and gives 



a few in right along until the fall when 

 it is again covered with flowers. The 

 Variegated Weigela also does well and 

 holds its colour good. The Double 

 White Deutzia requires a slight pro- 

 tection, but it well repays a little 

 extra care. The Yucca plant stands 

 the cold very good and the Hydrangea 

 paniculata grandiflora is quite hardy 

 and a very rapid grower, but the Rose 

 is my favorite. I have not a great 

 many varieties yet ; about twenty dif- 

 ferent varieties and some good seedlings. 



J. M. W. 

 Fernhill, Middlesex Co. 



THE PEWAUKEE APPLE. 



It is, as I am informed, claimed for 

 this variety of apple that it is a seedling 

 of the Russian apple Duchess of Olden- 

 burg, having its characteristics as to 

 hardihood, being dubbed an iron- clad, 

 and its bearing qualities, with the addi- 

 tional recommendation that it is a win- 

 ter fruit. 



Now, with regard to its two first 

 qualities, I will not dispute, but to the 

 latter I object upon a scientific rea- 

 son, and that, too, most decidedly, as 

 inconsistent with the laws of nature 

 which are the laws of order and never 

 deviate. 



It is well-known by botanists that 

 the Duchess of Oldenburg is a develop- 

 ment of the wild crab, a variety indi- 

 genous to central Russia and ripens its 

 fruit towards the close of the season in 

 that country and would therefore be in 

 our climate nothing else than a late 

 summer variety, and its succeeding 

 progeny precisely the same ; this also 

 being the case with all varieties from 

 that country, and, as a rule, all are sum- 

 mer fruit and cannot possibly be other- 

 wise. To produce a winter variety 

 from any variety of Russian apple 

 would require a special suspension of 

 the laws of nature and this does not 

 often occur in this degenerate age. 



