40 ONTARIO. 



and early winter, the Ribston Pippin, Hubbardston Non- 

 such, Fall Pippin, and Snow Apple. For midwinter' to 

 March, the Ehode Island Greening, Northern Spy, Esopus 

 Spitzenburg, Pomme Grise, and Tolman Sweet ; for spring, 

 the Golden Russet, and Roxbury Russet. 



" For market, the most profitable varieties are Red Astra- 

 can, Duchess of Oldenburgh, Gravenstein, and Hubbard- 

 ston Nonsuch, ripening in the order in which they are 

 named, for a near or home market ; and for shipping, the 

 Rhode Island Greening, Baldwin, Golden Russet, and Rox- 

 bury Russet will yield the largest pecuniary returns." * 



Apples are barrelled in the orchards, and dispatched 

 there and then to market. The orchard in Canada West, 

 with very little labour and moderate attention, is a source 

 of a clear annual income to the farmer who possesses one. 

 To make an orchard 25 cents per tree is the estimated cost. 

 The trees commence to bear in ten years. Farmers who 

 do not like the risk or the trouble of marketing their 

 apples, can sell them in the orchard for from $1'50 to 

 $2 per barrel. 



Pears do equally well as apples, but being a tenderer 

 and more delicate fruit they are more difficult to bring to 

 market. The following are the chief varieties grown : 

 Louise Bonne de Jersey, Bartlett, Beurre d'Anjou, Beurre 

 Clairgeau, Flemish Beauty, Duchess d'Angouleme, Graslin, 

 Sheldon, and Winter Nelis. 



Melons, both sweet melons and water melons, ripen 

 throughout Canada. The habitants of Lower Canada 

 grow musk and citron melons in their little gardens that 

 would throw in the shade the melons forced at great cost 

 in good English gardens. 



* ' Report of Canadian Fruit-growers' Association.' 



