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Triomphe de Guillot Fils, T. — One of the best, sweet scented, 

 Tery large and full, color white, delicately shaded with rose and 

 salmon. 



The foregoing are, perhaps, the best we have ; newer sorts, 

 as Adrienne Cliristophle, Belle Lyonnaise, Madame Levet, &c, 

 have not yet been sufficiently tested here to speak confidently of 

 their merits. 



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 CLIMATIC VAETATIONS. 



There is a great variety of climate within the bonndaries of 

 our Dominion, which necessarily affects the cultivation of Fruits, 

 and places certain limitations upon the variety of ornamental 

 plants that may be used in the adornment of grounds, and of 

 vegetables wherewith to supply the table. In addition to what 

 has already been said upon the hardihood of the several varieties,, 

 it may be profitable to take a general survey of the variations in 

 climate which obtain in the several Provinces, and of their effect 

 upon horticulture. 



In the Province of Ontario, there is a strip of land lying 

 between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and along the northern shore 

 of Lake Erie and the southern shore of Lake Huron, where the 

 Peach can be successfully grown in the open air. This is owing 

 to the influence which those large bodies of water exert upon the 

 temperature. It foUows that all other plants as hardy as the 

 Peach can be grown within these limits, hence we find here the 

 Heart and Bigarreau Cherries, and a large variety of Pears and 

 Grapes, and nearly every valuable variety of Apple. There is also 

 a strip bordering upon the north shore of Lake Ontario, and along 

 the St. Lawrence, and upon the Georgian Bay, where the like 

 ameliorating influence is exhibited, but not in a degree sufficient 

 to admit of the successful open air culture of the PeacL Yet its 

 influence is seen in the number of varieties of Apple and Pear 

 that can be grown in perfection near the water, as compared with 

 the number that will succeed a few miles inland, though in tha 



