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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



turity; the flesh is pale green in color, and 

 the texture melting and juicy; the flavor is 

 rich, sweet and agreeable. In season it is 

 earlier than Reine Claude, coming in about 

 the middle of August. 



OPINIONS OF OTHERS. 



HaroIvD Jones, Maitland (St. Lawrence 

 District) : — The Green Gage plum has not 

 proved generally satisfactory in this section. 

 Trees that I planted in 1897 are partly dead, 

 and have never blossomed. They suffered 

 during the winter of 1902. I know of two 

 trees that are protected by buildings from 

 the north wind that have given good crops 

 of fruit in favorable years ; but generally 

 speaking, the Green Gage is an uncertain 

 cropper here and not profitable. 



My experience and observation teach that 

 European plums are generally unsatisfac- 

 tory in this latitude, but some plums of the 

 native American class are of good quality 

 and succeed well. 



A. E. Sherrington, Walkerton; — The 

 Green Gage plum is hardy and productive 

 here, but in my opinion not as valuable as 

 the Imperial Gage. 



J. G. Mitchell, Clarksburg: — The mar- 

 ket demands large and showy fruit, and the 



Green Gage, being rather small, has always 

 sold at a low price here. Where the Reine 

 Claude succeeds, which is really a large 

 Green Gage, I think there is little use '.n 

 growing the small Green Gage. 



W. M. Orr, Fruitland : — We do not grow 

 the Green Gage, Although the quality of 

 the fruit is good, I consider it too small, and 

 the tree is a poor grower. I prefer the Im- 

 perial Gage, of which the fruit is large and 

 of good quality, and the tree vigorous and 

 productive. 



Charles Ellis, Meaford: — Very few 

 Green Gage plums are grown about here. 

 The Reine Claude is often sold under that 

 name ; but the true Green Gage is small and 

 not very productive so far as I have seen it, 

 but it is very good for home use. 



Charles Lowry, Queenston : — The Green 

 Gage is highly esteemed both as to produc-^ 

 tiveness of tree and quality of fruit ; but the 

 sale is limited. Every year I think the price 

 of plums grows less, and unless some for- 

 eign market opens for them it seems to mc 

 there is little hope for plum growers. 



F. G. Stewart, Homers: — The Green 

 Gage is considered the best canning plum, 

 and we get more for it at the factories than 

 for any other. For home use it is super- 

 seded by the Reine Claude. 



I^ditorial ^0t^s and C^mmjeuts 



PLUM CtROWTNG. 



UNDER the auspices of that progres- 

 sive body of fruit growers, the 

 Niagara Peninsiila United Fruit 

 Growers' Association, a splendid meeting 

 was held in the Town Hall, Stoney Creek, 

 on the 1 2th March. The President, Mr. D. 

 J. McKinnon, of Grimsby, occupied the 

 chair, and the principal speaker was Mr. J. S. 



Woodward, of Lockport, one of New York 

 State's foremost teachers of advanced metJi- 

 ods in fruit growing. 



CONSCIENCE AND FRUIT GROWING. 



IN Mr. Woodward's opinion fruit growers 

 might be divided into two classes. ( i ) 

 Those who grow fruit for fun; (2) Those 

 who grow it for money. The first class 



