THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



APPLES. 



HOW fortunate that each latitude has 

 some fruit which succeeds in it better 

 than anywhere else, and great good will re- 

 sult if our fruit stations discover those fruits 

 which will bring the most profits to each 

 section. Mr. Harold Jones of Maitland 

 says that four varieties of apples are very 

 profitable along the St. Lawrence River, 

 viz.: Fameuse, Mcintosh Red, Wealthy and 

 Crimson Pippin, about in the order named. 

 More money can be made from orchards of 

 Fameuse than from any other crop in the 

 district, providing scab is controlled by 

 spraying. For the Ottawa valley Mr. 

 MaCoun recommends Mcintosh Red and 

 Wealthy as hrst for market purposes, for 

 they succeed perfectly and grow free from 

 blemishes. " No one," said Mr. R. B. 

 W^hyte of Ottawa, " need think of planting 

 Spy, Baldwin, King or Greening along the 

 Ottawa, for they cannot be grown." 



Mr. A. D. Harkness of Irena, stated that 

 this year he had received for his Mcintosh 

 Red and Fameuse from $3.25 to $3.50 per 

 barrel in the Ottawa market. 



Mr. G. C. Caston, of Craighurst, showed 

 a large number of varieties of apples. " I 

 have tried," said he, "quite a collection of 

 commercial varieties in Simcoe County, and 

 find nothing superior to the Spy. I con- 

 sider it the hope of apple growers in my 

 district, for it excels every other variety, 

 both in appearance and in quality. True it 

 is very long in coming into bearing, but it 

 is 'worth waiting for.' Besides if you top 

 work it on Tolman Sweet, it will bear sooner 

 than if worked on other stock. 



*' The Russian apples I find to be mostly 

 summer varieties, the Bogdanoff perhaps 

 comes the nearest to a winter apple. We 

 cannot grow the Fameuse, nor the Mc- 

 intosh Red, nor the Baxter, on account of 

 scab. The Peerless, which I got from 

 Minnesota in 1895, bore this year an average 

 of a half bushel each tree. It is a seedling 



of Duchess, which it somewhat resembles ; 

 it is a good cooker, but it is a fall apple." 



" I have about three hundred varieties of 

 apples in my experimental orchard," said 

 Mr. Dempsey, who is experimenter tor the 

 Bay of Quinte district, "one half of which 

 have been added since 1894. For the Bay 

 of Quinte region I would advise planting 

 Duchess, Trenton, Gravenstein, Fameuse 

 and Mcintosh for summer and fall ; and 

 Spy, Ontario, Stark, Hubbardston, Seek, 

 Cranberry and Ben Davis for winter. 



" In the southernmost sections of the pro- 

 vince the winter would adopt the following 

 list, in order of ripening, viz.: Transparent, 

 Duchess, Alexander, Gravenstein, Blenheim, 

 King, Baldwin, Spy and Roxbury Russett." 



PLUiS. 



MR. HAROLD JONES is testing 

 plums which may prove suitable 

 for the St. Lawrence district. He has not 

 found any of the old English kinds (Do- 

 mestica) to be hardy, and has now concluded 

 to test only native stock. He mentioned 

 four kinds which he had tried, and in which 

 he had placed much confidence, viz, : Mil- 

 ton, W^hittaker, Hammer and Forest Rose. 



PEACHES. 



^'^HE day of extraordinary prices forpeach- 

 X es grown north of the peach belts seems 

 to be rapidly passing; for in cold storage, 

 this tender fruit may be sent to us from dis- 

 tant American orchards and fill our markets. 

 There are very few parts in Ontario in 

 which a peach will thrive with any kind of 

 certainty ; even in Essex, that part of Ont- 

 ario considered especially fitted for peach 

 culture, hundreds of acres of peach trees 

 were winter killed by an exceptional 

 winter, and much discouragement has 

 resulted. Mr. Hilborn, our experimenter 

 of Essex, gave a list of his favorite varieties, 

 as follows : Triumph, Greensboro, Yellow 

 St. John, Garfield, Early Crawford, Filz- 



