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ture to be maintained at between 50 and 55 degrees 

 Fahrenheit ; that the steamer while so employed 

 shall not carry in any hold or between any decks 

 more than five tiers of barrels of apples or other 

 fruit except they be stowed in such manmer and in 

 such tonnage as will relieve any tier from the 

 weight of more than four other tiers; that the 

 steamers when carrying fruit shall be run at an 

 average speed of not less than twelve knots per 

 hour." 



A CURIOUS APPLE TREE. 



WE take the following from a recent is- 

 sueofthe Orillia Packet: "A decided 

 curiosity in fruit was left at the Packet office 

 on Saturday by Mrs. Silas Prophet, of Ather- 

 ley, in the form of a stem from an apple tree, 

 bearing from one bud a fair size apple, a crab 

 apple, and a pear. The freak grew on a tree 

 in the orchard of Messrs. Gaddey Bros. 

 The tree has produced a number of the od- 

 dities, but most of them had been eaten by 

 the children. The pear is well formed, but 

 otherwise it resembles the apple in appear- 

 ance, having the same coloring and mark- 

 ings. Mr. Wellington Fisher, to whom the 



Fig. 2431. Peak, Apple and Grab on one 

 Branch. A Curiosity. 



Packet showed the odd combination, thought 

 it most remarkable and worth preserving." 



We show an engraving of this curiosity, 

 which will give our readers a correct idea 

 of form, which is certaingly a monstrosity. 

 It has no other value, however, for the flesh 

 of apple, pear and crab are all apple. 



A LANDSCAPE GARDENER'S CRITICISMS. 



WE take it as a compliment that 

 such a man as W. H. Manning, 

 so long Secretary of the Ameri- 

 can Park and Out-Door Association, and a 

 landscape architect, should find interest in 

 our journal. In a recent letter he writes : 



The " Flower Garden and Lawn " always 

 has something of interest in it. I see this 

 time that you have the garden of Mr. R. S. 

 Anderson, where I should judge some man 

 who likes freaky stone structures has been 

 in charge. Certainly the effect is not a good 

 one from a landscape architect's point of 

 view, whose purpose it is to irake an at- 

 tractive picture in which no one object will 

 be unduly obtrusive. The little glimpse of 

 a street car used as a summer-house on Main 

 street is very interesting and rather more 

 attractive. The garden at Bowbrook is cer- 

 tainly an attractive one, although here I 

 should think there had been an attempt to 

 introduce too many curious conceits in the 

 way of artistic structures. Mr. J. M. Hall's 

 garden at Hamilton interested me rather 

 more than the others in a way, because it is 

 evidently not the work of a gardener but 

 that of a flower lover who has a more defin- 

 ite purpose in view than the display of 

 plants, pots, rockeries, and the like. This 

 little place will be a gem in its way. No- 

 tice, if you will, hov; well the fence is being 

 overed, and how soon the existing growth 

 will so completely cover it that it will merge 

 into the distant landscape. I have written 

 Mr. Hall, asking him if he can let me have 

 a copy of the photograph that is reproduced 

 in the Horticulturist. 



