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THE CANADIAN HOBTICULTUKIST. 



lected by Charles Downing, the ac- 

 knowledged American authority, you 

 ■will find that he also says that Fanieuse, 

 Snow and Pomtne de Neige are three 

 names for one and the same apple. 

 Which will you believe, our leading 

 pomologists or dealers in Ottawa ? 



Mr. Editor, — I have before me a 

 Liverpool wholesale fruit dealer's price- 

 list, 1882, and I find that the apples 

 that fetch most money are Newton 

 Pippins, quoted at 37s. per barrel, 

 whereas finest New York Baldwins are 

 down at 22s. per barrel. Will you 

 kindly describe the former apple and 

 its keeping qualities, and if fall or win- 

 ter ; and is the tree hardy and suitable 

 to plant in our township l 



I can only find a casual reference to 

 it in " Beadle on Gardening," etc. 



I have heanl and read a good deal 

 about Wealthy and Walbridge apples. 

 Are they in any way superior to the 

 well tried Baldwins for this county ? 

 Yours truly, 



BOSANQUET. 



Reply. — The Newton Pippin does 

 not gi'ow to pei'fectiou in Ontai-io, or 

 even away from the Hudson River. 

 It is a winter apple. The Wealthy 

 and Walbridge are more hardy than 

 Baldwin, and on that accouiat better for 

 cold sections where Baldwin fails. 



Sulphur Fumes for Curculio. — John- 

 ston Eaton, of Pennsylvania, writes of his 

 experience witli plum trees : — For nearly 

 twenty years I had plum trees on the 

 farm, but not a plum to eat, when a lady 

 told me to smoke the trees when the fruit 

 was set, and continue for two months, 

 once a week, witli sulphur. This I did, 

 and have had an abundance of fruit ever 

 since. Sometimes put a little coal tar in 

 a pan with the sulphur. — Fruit Recorder. 



CORRESPOND ENCE. 



SOME OF THE NEW STKAWBERRIES. 



Mr. Editor, — At the fall meeting of 

 the F. G. A., held in Bariie on the 1st 

 and 2nd October, I suggested as a sub- 

 ject for discussion, '' The most desirable 

 new varieties of Sti'awberries, and 

 their particular merits;" and my reason 

 for doing so was because the past 

 winter and summer have been so ex- 

 ceedingly trying to that plant, that :i 

 better opportunity is not likely to occur 

 for testing their power of resisting both 

 frost aud drought. J knownothowit may 

 have been in other parts, but as regard.s 

 this locality a more destructive winter, 

 or rather spring, and a more disastrous 

 drought than the one that visited us last 

 June, have never occurred in my ex- 

 perience here or elsewhere ; and should 

 I live to attain the age of one himdred 

 years I should never again exi)ect to 

 see the sti-aw berry growers afflicted 

 with two such calamities in one yeai-. 

 More than one-half of my previous 

 spring's plantation were killed as dead 

 as a dooiMiail immediately after the 

 snow melted in the spring, and those 

 left living were so weakened that they 

 did not set more than half a crop ; and 

 they had no sooner recov(-red from the 

 effects of the frost as far as possible, 

 and had pr pared to ripen the few 

 berries that had been formed, than the 

 heat and drought of June wilted the 

 plants and dried up the fruit, till the 

 prospects of a profitable yield aud the 

 spirits of the cultivator went down to 

 zero. Surely then such a season as this 

 was favorable for testing the hardiness 

 of any new varieties, and of such 1 had 

 seven kinds that were at least new to 

 me, viz.. Bidwell. Finch's Prolific, Mt. 

 Vernon, Arnold's Pride, James Vick, 

 Manchester, and Jersey Queen. Of 

 these, the Bidwell, Finch, Arnold and 

 Vick wliere badly winter killed, the two 

 last so badlv that I only got two 



