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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



by broom botigtis. It would scarcely 

 be hardy enough in this climate. 

 ^ The native crab apple grows singly on • 

 the lawn, is a beautiful object when in 

 blossom, the flowers are very fragrant, 

 and it will certainly vie with any of the 

 fancy hawthorns, which are tender and 

 only short-lived. I am astonished that 

 the crab apple has never appeared in the 

 select lists of ornamental small trees. 

 It may possibly be that it is because it is 

 a native — foreigners being preferred. 



Berlin, January, 1885. R- 



APPLES FOR MARKET. 

 The best varieties of apples for a 

 town or city market, and to realize the 

 best prices for summer and early fall, 

 are in their order of ripening, the fol- 

 lowing, viz.: — Tetofsky, Early Harvest 

 (when grown without spots), Duchess 

 of Oldenberg, Red Astrachan, Benoni, 

 Keswick Codlin, Hawley, Porter, St. 

 Lawrence, Gravenstein, and Colvert. 

 The new Russian varieties lately intro- 

 duced — the Grand Sultan and Yellow 

 Transparent — have not as yet fruited, 

 but from what I learn, they will be an ac- 

 quisition to our very early varieties, and 

 likely to throw the Early Harvest out 

 of cultivation, as it cannot now be de- 

 pended on. Late fall or early winter 

 are comparatively worthless for market- 

 ing, and are only tit for making cider, 

 feeding stock, and evaporating. The 

 Ribstone Pippin, Blenheim Orange, 

 and Dutch Mignonne, all belonging to 

 the same type, are the only exceptions. 

 Late winter varieties, such as the fol- 

 lowing : — Golden Russet, Baldwin, 

 Northern Spy, Rhode Island Greening, 

 and Grime's Golden, are good value in 

 either a home or foreign market, being 

 generally well known. 



I know that a large number of varie- 

 ties of apples may suit the tastes of 

 amateurs, exhibitors at shows, and ex- 

 perimentalists, but to the party who 



wants to make apple-growing profitable, 

 the varieties alluded to are all that ai'e 

 necessarily required. 



Simon Roy. 

 Berlin, January, 1885. 



PEARS. 



I am of the opinion that if a differ- 

 ent mode of propagating our choice 

 pears from what is generally practised, 

 namely by working close at the gi'ound, 

 is not inaugurated, there will be very 

 few left escaping the blight. 



Amongst some thirty varieties which 

 I have tried, being root-worked or near 

 the ground, I find only a few that can 

 be really relied upon, and these are the 

 Rostiezer, Clapp's Favorite, Vezouziere 

 (a Bergamot shaped fruit). Ananas 

 D'Et^, Doyenne D'Et^, and Belle 

 Lucrative. 



If worked at standard height, say 

 about four feet, on wilding stocks, the 

 more thorny the better, almost all 

 varieties do better ; fine specimens of 

 the following varieties can be grown in 

 this way, such as Bartlett, Bosc, 

 D'Anjou, Superfine, Buffum, Mount 

 Yernon and Giffard, which latter is 

 particularly adapted for this manner of 

 propagation, as it is a poor grower 

 when worked at the ground. 



The Flemish Beauty is generafiy 

 considered a hardy and very thrifty 

 growing tree ; the latter I will admit, 

 but it is a tree as subject to blight as 

 the Dearborn Seedling. 



I examined some trees which were 

 badly blighted and found that the 

 heart of the trunk was rotten ; so also 

 of some others, such as Lawrence, 

 Clairgeau, Easter, and Onondaga, all 

 were blighted and prematurely afiected 

 internally. Has this internal condi- 

 tion of the ti-ee anything to do with 

 blight 1 I am persuaded it has. 



Only a limited number of varieties 

 of the pear are successfully grown on 

 the quince stock, and these are Louise 



