SUCCESSES AND FAILURES IN FRUIT GROWING. 



Fig. 1569. — Mr. McKnight's Residence. 



OME time ago we gave our 

 readers a sketch of Mr. R. 

 McKnight, of Owen Sound, 

 and recently we received the 

 accompanying photographs of his 

 grounds, that of the house showing a 

 short cut to the town, the hedge on the 

 right being privet and that on the left, 

 cedar (the native arbor vitae). Behind 

 the hedge to the right is the small fruit 

 plantation, and behind the house the 

 orchard. The carriage drive, which is 

 not shown, enters on the west side of 

 the lawn, and is flanked on one side by 

 a row of Austrian pines, and on the 

 other by one of spruce, now nineteen 

 years planted. 



The other picture. Fig. 1570 , shows a 

 sauntering place along the east of the 

 orchard, and on the brow of the hill ; 



any part of which commands a fine view 

 of the town, harbor and lake. 



The row of evergreens on the left is a 

 spruce wind break and joins the eastern 

 boundary of the orchard, along which 

 you will notice a privet hedge, which 

 has outlived both its usefulness and its 

 beauty. The trees now partly over- 

 shadowing it, the maples on the right, 

 are second growth volunteers, and 

 stretch along the immediate brow of the 

 hill. The trees in the distance are a 

 part of about ^ an acre of the original 

 bush ; they make a good background to 

 the place, and shelter the orchard from 

 the north wind. This is the only piece 

 of original bush within the limits of the 

 residential part of the town. 



Mr. McKnight writes as follows : — 

 " I have* cultivated about all the kinds of 

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