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Huggard's Seedling Pear. 



1119. Sir, — I send you a seedling pear 

 for your opinion. It is a cross between Clair - 

 geau and Anjou. 



R. L. Huggard, Whitby. 



This pear is worth testing. In a 

 warm room it has ripened for eating 

 this i st November, but in the cool it 

 would no doubt keep till Christmas. It 

 is large in size, obtuse, pyriform, skin 

 yellow, with bright red cheek, stem stout 

 with peculiar raised fleshy insertion, 

 calyx half closed in a moderately deep 

 basin, flesh creamy white, tender, juicy, 

 with some granules like the flesh of 

 the Duchess ; flavor sweet and very 

 agreeable. 



Weakened by Frost. 



1120. Sir, — I planted a number of pear 

 trees in the spring of 1898, they all grew well 

 that season, but this spring the trunks of most 

 of them were dead on one side, the branches 

 were budding some but have died since. 

 Would like to know if such young trees 

 would have the blight, if the cold winter has 

 done it, or if the disease has come from the 

 nursery, some trees are growing from the 

 roots. D. N. A. 



No doubt the severe cold weather of 

 last February weakened the life of many 

 of our fruit trees, some of which suc- 

 cumbed at once and others have been 

 gradually dying. Sometimes the sun 

 coming out suddenly upon frozen bark 

 after a severe cold spell, causes sun 

 scald, or portions of bark to die and in 

 time peel off, thus seriously injuring the 

 tree. 



Choice of Apple Trees. 



1121. Sir. — I am thinking of planting 

 out three or four hundred apple trees (winter 

 fruit) assorted, as follows : Baldwins, Ben 

 Davis, Mann, Kings, and Cranberry Pippins. 

 Would you kindly let me know what you 

 think of the assortment ? 



A. McK. Cameron, 

 Meaford. 



The selection of apple trees made by 

 our correspondent is a very good one 

 for a list of winter varieties for export, 

 with one exception, viz., the Mann ap- 

 ple. This variety drops badly from the 

 tree, and its color is not favorable to its 

 ready sale. It is productive and fairly 

 even in size but can hardly be classed 

 among the best commercial varieties. 

 We would substitute Ontario for Mann 

 in the list proposed by our subscriber. 



Turnips as Green Manure. 



1123. Sir, — If not too much against the 

 rules of your journal, I wish you would reply 

 to the query as below at your earliest con- 

 venience. I have a crop of turnips in my 

 plum orchard — trees planted five years next 

 spring. Would it be good for tree or fruit 

 or both to plow under turnips now ? 



Ephriam Cookk, 

 Norwich, Ont. 



Reply by H. L. Hutt, O. A. C, Guelph. 

 We would not advise plowing under 

 a good crop of turnips. It would pay 

 better to sell the turnips and buy wood 

 ashes or manure, or if possible feed the 

 turnips to stock and apply the manure 

 to the orchard. 



Second Crop of Flowers after 

 Bulbs. 



1123. Sir,— In your October issue in an 

 article taken from the Farmer's Advocate, I 

 observe it is recommended that bulbs should 

 remain unmoved in the ground for three or 

 four years, or longer. Will you kindly tell a 

 subscriber if any use can be made of the ground 

 after the plants have ceased to bloom ; and if 

 so, what is the best thing, or things to use in 

 the vacant or bare earth ? 



Jas. Caufield, 



Woodstock. 



Seeds of annuals may be sown to suc- 

 ceed the early spring flowering bulbs. 



Regulations of Fruit Packing:. 



Sir, — The answer to question No. 

 i no is really satisfactory as far it goes, 



