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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



apples, and 12 German late winter 

 apples. Some were received from the 

 Iowa State Agriculture College, others 

 from Germany ; also varieties imported 

 by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, and odd varieties not 

 obtained before. 



Of pears, 63 trees of nine varieties, 

 half of which were of the celebrated 

 Bessemianka pear. Plums, 18 trees of 

 three varieties. Cherries, 116 trees of 

 18 varieties, mostly dwarf forms of the 

 Griotte or purple-fleshed Morello type. 

 Some of these trees or bushes, not over 

 three feet high, bore last year, and their 

 blossom promises another crop soon. 



This is not the first work of the kind 

 done by the Abbotsford Association. 

 Promising fruits are obtained and placed 

 in the hands of the members as soon as 

 possible. There are now growing at 

 Abbotsford 97 varieties of the newer 

 Russian and German apples ; 59 varie- 

 ties of Russian, Polish and German 

 pears. A few Russian and many Ger- 

 man plums, and promising North- West 

 native plums, and 39 varieties of Ger- 

 man and Russian cherries. 



Such work must tell in time. 



RASPBERRIES. 



I have for several years been testing 

 as to the hardiness and productiveness 

 of raspberries. I would place them in 

 the following order : Tyler, Doolittle, 

 Ohio, and Gregg. The Tyler is very 

 hardy and productive. The Ohio fol- 

 lows in good time, somewhat later, and 

 it is a large yielder. The Gregg, the 

 latest of all, and liable to be winter- 

 killed, is only profitable on good upland 

 and in protected situations. Of the red, 

 the Philadelphia and Turner are perfctly 

 hardy and yield a crop every year. 

 The Cuthbert froze back to within two 

 feet of the ground. It is a fine berry, 

 but not as hardy as I would like. The 



Marlboro' wintered better. Shaffer's for 

 six years has proved very hardy and 

 productive. I have not lost a bush 

 from any cause. Insects and blight, 

 that affect black raspberries, do not 

 trouble it. This is enough like a black- 

 cap to be classed as such and to take 

 their place, as it is gradually doing 

 with those who know its worth. Were 

 I to confine myself to one berry it would 

 be this. There are no suckers which 

 with many varieties of the reds, are as 

 troublesome as weeds. — Rural New- 

 Yorker. 



PROLON^GING THE SEASON OF THE 

 WINTER NELIS. 



AN IMPORTANT SUGGESTION. 



In '82 I put cions of Winter Nelis 

 into four pear trees that had been in 

 bearing about 10 years. Three were 

 Flemish Beauties, the fourth a Blood- 

 good. Last October I gathered about 

 three pecks of fine Winter Nelis pears 

 from the Bloodgood, and about a baiTel 

 from the Flemish Beauties. There was 

 no perceptible difference in size or fair- 

 ness, but those gathered from the Blood- 

 good were green, while the others were 

 yellow-brown. The two sorts were kept 

 separate. The Flemish Beauty Winter 

 Nelis all ripened before the end of 

 December. The Bloodgood Winter 

 Nelis kept through January. In other 

 words, the season of this delicious pear 

 was prolonged a full month. In the 

 grafting about one-third of each tree 

 was changed. I had previously noticed 

 that in a list of 25 varieties, the Flemish 

 Beauty was the first to stop growtli and 

 drop its leaves, while the Bloodgood 

 continues growing and holds its leaves 

 very late. My experience, unless ex- 

 ceptional, points to an easy way of pro- 

 longing the seasons of choice late pears, 

 and possibly of earlier ones. — A. D. 

 Morse, in Rural New-Yorker. 



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