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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



acquisition. The Ohio comes in next, 

 and is hardy and productive. The 

 Marlboro is early and prolific, ripening 

 its crop gradually, and when fully ripe, 

 of good quality, good size, and firm 

 enough for traveling to distant market ; 

 but to obtain these advantages the 

 suckers must be constantly kept down. 

 It is the most vigorous and robust of 

 all raspberries. My favorite is the 

 Souchetti, which I introduced 30 years 

 ^go. This and the Franconia lead in 

 the prize taking. Cuthbert is good, but 

 no improvement over the Franconia. 

 The Crystal of Caywood, a new white, 

 is vigorous and prolific, handsome and 

 firm, promises well for market. — Mar- 

 shall P. Wilder, in Rural New 

 Yorker, 



STRAWBERRY NOTES. 



The first strawberries this season 

 -were Alpha, on June 1st. This has 

 now, for several years, shown itself to be 

 the earliest really valuable strawberry 

 Avith me. Early Canada may some- 

 times be a day earlier ; but Alpha is 

 larger, more productive and of finer 

 flavor; while the hardiness and vigor of 

 the latter are all that need be desired. 

 Metcalf and Crystal City may, per- 

 chance, be a day or even two earlier; but 

 their lack of size, and extreme unpro- 

 ductiveness have ruled them out, and I 

 abandoned them several years since. 



Alpha, Maggie, Bright Ida and 

 Arnold's Pride, which ripen success- 

 ively in the order named, are seedlings 

 (in the second generation) of the late 

 Charles Arnold of Ontario, from a cross 

 of Wilson upon the foreign variety, Dr. 

 Nicaise; and are again, this season, as 

 for several years past, surprising me 

 with their fine size, fair quality and 

 great productiveness. Jewell, Parry and 

 Cornelia are fruiting heavily ; but I 

 doubt if either of these — even the 

 Jewell — can be said to excel the former 

 in vigor or productiveness. 



Howell, a new variety of the history 

 of which I am ignorant, ripened along 

 with Crescent, on the second day after 

 Alpha, and were soon followed by 

 Philadelphia, Nicanor, Duchess, Dun- 

 can, Maggie, Bid well and many others 

 about in the above order. 



The Alpha, last season, ripened its 

 first fruit on June 13th ; or about two 

 weeks later than this year. Parry 

 showed its first ripe fruit this season 

 on June 11th. The plant shows a 

 moderate degree of vigor, and is more 

 than maintaining its last season's repu- 

 tation for productiveness, as well as for 

 the size, beauty and high quality of 

 the fruit. — T. T. Lyon, in Rural New- 

 Yorker. 



THE "CONN" GOOSEBERRY. 



We have received from Mr. P. E. 

 Bucke, of Ottawa, a branch of this 

 Gooseberry, to which a goodly sup})ly 

 of fruit was no doubt attached when it 

 started on its journey, but which had 

 nearly all become detached when it 

 came to hand. The berries vary very 

 much in size and form. Some of them 

 are of an elongated form, nearly oval ; 

 others are round. The longest was a 

 trifle over an inch in length, and mea- 

 sured two and a quarter inches in cir- 

 cumference at the largest part. The 

 color was a bright green, but as the 

 fruit was not perfectly ripe it may be 

 that the color becomes lighter at ma- 

 turity. Of the flavour it is impossible 

 to speak, owing to the unripe state of 

 the fruit. 



The following account of this berry, 

 given by Mr. Bucke, is taken from the 

 report of the Fruit Growei*s' Associa- 

 tion for 1885, page 53 : — 



" Last, but not least, comes a beny 

 which I found in the possession of 

 John Conn, Esq., J. P., of Kemptville, 

 Ontario. This is decidedly the best 

 gooseberry of which I have any per- 

 sonal knowledge. On strict enquiry of 



