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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



"I would not plant Lombards for profit," 

 said Alex. Glass of Jordan, the well known 

 originator of the Glass plum. "In my 

 orchard of 800 trees I have only eight or 

 ten trees of Lombard. I count it the poor- 

 est plum I grow." 



What are your most profitable varieties? 



"The Prince of Wales I count my first 

 for profit ; it is the best for all purposes. 

 My choice of six best kinds for the commer- 

 cial orchard is : - Prince of Wales, Goliath, 

 Bradshaw, Coe and Reine Claude. 



"It is strange," said Ira VanDuzer, a 

 prominent fruit grower of Winona, "that 

 this year there is a general failure in many 

 plum sections of Glass, Quackenbos and 

 Columbia varieties, which by the way very 

 much resemble each other. On the other 

 hand Bradshaw and German prune are 

 giving a most exceptional yield." 



MAIN CROP STRAWBERRIES 



<i/"~A IVEN the right soil," said Mr. E. B. 



V_T Stevenson, our strawberry ex- 

 perimenter, who is now located at Jordan 

 Station, "no fruit is more profitable than 

 the strawberry. Look at the tremendous 

 rows of fruit on these rows of Clyde, a var- 

 iety that cannot be surpassed for productive- 

 ness, where there is enough moisture in the 

 soil. As a rule it is far more productive 

 than the Williams, except on light, dry 

 soils, but of course it is not as firm for the 

 long shipments. The Williams is largely 

 grown for market, but, in my opinion, it is 

 inferior to Saunders, which I would place 

 first for main crop ; this latter is a Canadian 

 berry, large, bright, firm, and of good 

 quality. It ripens all over, and is just as 

 good a shipper as Williams." 



What is the best late berry ? 



Well here is one which was introduced 

 by J. H. Hale, the eminent peach grower. 

 He says it is the latest berry on earth, and 

 catalogues the plants at $1.00 each ! He 

 has christened it Hales 11.59 P. M. You 

 see it is not yet (June 20), beginning to 



ripen, and Michel is nearly over. However 

 it is not the only late berry ; J. H. Black, 

 of New Jersey, has been sending out some 

 "pedigree stock," as he calls it, among 

 others a variety called the Joe which is 

 probably as late as Hales. 



FANCY BERRIES 



Have you any fancy berry for the amateur 

 excelling the Jessie ? 



Well yes, I would say that either the 

 Woolverton, or the New York is quite as 

 desirable in the home garden, though of 

 course Jessie is excellent in quality. The 

 Marshall is an excellent berry too for the 

 amateur ; it needs rich, moist soil to do 

 well, and it is usually almost as profitable 

 for market growers as the Clyde. It is 

 almost as early as Michel. A new berry 

 from Michigan is one of the most promising 

 of this year's introductions, being wonder- 

 fully large and productive. It is called 

 Uncle Jim. 



A full report on strawberries by Mr. 

 Stevenson, will be published in the next 

 annual report of the Ontario Fruit Stations. 



RAPID INCREASE OF STRAWBERRY 

 PLANTS 



Speaking in The Sun of the rapidity with 

 which a large strawberry plantation may be 

 developed from a small beginning. Prof. 

 Hutt, of the O. A. C, said : " People hard- 

 ly realize how soon a very considerable area 

 of strawberries can be developed from the 

 experimental lots sent out from the college. 

 Let me give you an illustration : Last year 

 we set out a lot of strawberries of different 

 varieties at the college grounds, for the pur- 

 pose of seeing to what extent these would 

 increase. The result was astonishing. The 

 number of new plants developed from a single 

 parent stem in one season on the average 

 was — for the different varieties named — as 

 follows: Sadie, 100; Ruby 85; Standard, 

 53; No Name, 51 ; Burt, 48; Buster, 47; 

 Warfield, 42 ; William Belt, 41 ; Clyde, 38 ; 



