varieties, home orchards could be made quite general through the entire area, the 

 winter climate being but little more severe than that t>f Ottawa. 



The Department of Agriculture has distributed a number of trees for erperi 

 mental purposes in this district, and more will be known in a few years about its 

 capabilities. In the meantime, the following list of varieties is submitted as 

 containing those most worthy of trial: 

 Strawberries 

 Bederwood. 

 Dunlop. 

 Williams. 

 Raspberries 



Herbert. 

 Red Currants 

 Victoria. 

 Red Dutch. 

 Black Currants 

 Saunders. 

 Victoria. 

 Gooseberries 



Oregon Champion. 

 Sour Cherries- 

 Early Richmond. 

 Montmorency. 

 Orel 25. 



Plums and Prunes 

 Wolf. 

 1 I;i\vkeye. 

 Stoddard. 

 De Soto. 

 Cheney. 

 Also other American plums. Try also Shropshire Damson and Reine 



Claude. 

 Crab-apples 

 Whitney. 

 Martha. 

 Transcendent. 

 Pears 



Flemish Beauty. 

 Apples- 

 Yellow Transparent. 

 Charmaloff. 

 Tetofsky. 

 Duchess. 

 Wealthy. 

 McMahon White. 

 Longfield. 

 Mclntosh Red. 

 Scott's Winter. 

 Milwaukee. 

 North-west Greening. 



GENERAL SUGGESTIONS TO ORCHARD-PLANTERS. 



All fruit-trees sold in this Province are inspected by the Inspector of Fruit 

 Pests' Branch of the Department of Agriculture. They may be accepted as practi- 

 cally free from all insect pests, and are not likely to show any fungous or bacterial 

 disease at a later date ; as far as inspection can render them clean, they are so. In 

 addition, all the nurserymen of this Province, and all the nurserymen outside the 



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