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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fruit-Growers' Association, and shall be 

 pleased to hear of the good work you are 

 doing in extending fruit culture among 

 the people of your country. If 1 have any 

 reports of the work here, I sliall be most 

 glad to send them to you. 



And now allow me to extend you my 

 very best thanks for the interest j'ou have 

 taken in Japan and, thi'ough this interest , 

 the favor you have done to me. 



Yours, very truly, 



T. T.SUDA. 



Azabu, Tokio, Japan, 

 Dec. 3rd, 1884. 



McINTOSH RED APPLE. 



We have received from Mr. Allan 

 Mcintosh, of Duudela, Dundas Coiintj, 

 Ontario, a box of the Mcintosh red 

 apples, -with the request that we would 

 test them and let the readei-s of the 

 Canadian Horticulturist know what we 

 think of them. He remarks that the 

 spots on them, at his place, the past 

 season have been very light, and if the 

 next spring is not too wet and col^- 

 there will be no spots on them the com- 

 ing season. 



In point of appearance we must say 

 that these apples are very handsome 

 indeed, that their beauty is enough to 

 sell them in any market. They very 

 much resemble very large and very 

 high-colored Snow apples. The form of 

 the apple is somewhat more flattened 

 than that of the Snow, but in other 

 respects the general shape of the fruit 

 is very like that apple. The color is a 

 rich dark red, relieved with lighter 

 coloring on the shaded parts, and thte 

 whole is covered with a thin bloom, 

 like the Red Astrachan. The flesh is 

 nearly white, not quite so white as that 

 of the Snow, nor quite so melting, yet 



very tender, juicy and of excellent 

 flavor ; more highly flavored than the 

 Snow. It is a far handsomer and very 

 far better apple than the Ben Davis. 

 The specimens received were in fine 

 eating order, hence we infer that this 

 apple is at its best in January and 

 February when grown in Dundas 

 County, and if intended for the English 

 market, should be shipped in the fall in 

 preference to a spring shipment. 



A HANDSOME SEEDLING APPLE. 



We have received from Mr. M. E. 

 Park a couple of apples of great beauty. 

 He writes that they are from a seedling 

 ti'ee, grown in the same latitude as 

 Montreal, which is about six years old, 

 its trunk of the diameter of a tea cup, 

 and that it boi-e fully two barrels of 

 apples the past "season, which was its 

 second season of bearing. The apples 

 I'eceived were of large size, resembling 

 in form well grown samples of Northern 

 Spy, only not quite so conical. The 

 stem is about an inch long, very stout, 

 and set in a deep cavity. The calyx is 

 set in a basin of moderate depth, slightly 

 corrugated. The ground color is a veiy 

 light lemon, beautifully marbled and 

 shaded with bi-ight carmine, and the 

 surface sprinkled with minute grey dots. 

 It is one of the most attractive in ap- 

 pearance of any we have seen, rivalling 

 in beauty the beautiful Louise, which 

 was exhibited some years ago at one 

 of the winter meetings of the Fruit- 

 Growers' Association, in Hamilton. 

 The flesh is almost white, fine grained, 

 quite acid and not rich. It is too acid, 

 as tested by us, to be generally relished 



