THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Podolie, Russia. Only five of these 

 have failed, the rest have borne fruit 

 for several years, and we consider it 

 very valuable. 



A Very Useful Ladder in the 

 peach orchard is one made after the 

 model shewn in the engraving. Where 

 the land is at all level it is quite easy to 

 wheel this ladder about from place to 

 place, even with two or three baskets of 

 fruit, and it is always safe to climb. So 

 many of the step ladders in use are so 

 heavy as to give one a back ache to 

 carry them about, that it is a pleasure 

 to find one which is easily moved. 



Fig 1654. — A Uskful Ladder. 



The English Fruit Crop. — The 

 Gardener's Chronicle, London, Eng- 

 land, dated August 5th, gives very com- 

 plete reports of the fruit crop, from 350 

 correspondents. The general consensus 

 is that this year sees one of the worst 

 fruit crops on record. Apples are 

 under the average and bad in quality ; 

 and pears are worse still. The same 

 may be said of the plum crop, one of the 

 most important of the English fruit 

 crops, no fewer than 199 correspondents 

 out of 238 reporting the plum crop as 

 below the average, and only 2 as over. 



This gives us ground to hope for 

 good prices for apples, pears and 

 plums. The difficulty with us in On- 

 tario is that we have not planted vari- 

 eties for export, but only for our home 

 markets. We should have just one 

 favorite variety of apples for each sea- 

 son if we would succeed in our export 

 trade in fruit, thus we could begin with 

 the Astracan, and ship in succession 

 Duchess, Tetovka, Alexander, or Wolf 

 River, Blenheim, Crimson Pippin, 

 Wealthy, Ontario and Spy, and thus 

 cover the season with fancy apples. 



Cotoneaster Vulgaris is proving 

 itself one of our most satisfactory 

 shrubs at Maplehurst, with its loads of 

 red berries, which hang well into the 

 wmter It deserves to be widely culti- 

 vated. 



Grape Yellows. — A mysterious 

 disease has appeared in the vineyards in 

 some parts of the province, which 

 seems to baffle the scientists. The 

 leaves gradually turn white, the vine 

 soon becomes unproductive, and finally 

 dies away entirely. Several vineyards 

 about Grimsby have been more less 

 affected with it, and many theories have 

 been advanced to explain the cause. 

 No definite conclusion has been 

 reached. 



Gardening is an art too little under- 

 stood by us in Canada. In the first 

 place, we in Canada try to cultivate far 

 too much land in proportion to their 

 means, and therefore always a part is 

 sadly neglected. We must learn some 

 lessons from our foreign friends, who 

 practice so-called " intensive " garden- 

 ing, and who aim to make the most of 

 every square inch of ground. 



Prince Krapotkine, who has made a 



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