THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUklST, 



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here it is too far north to be very suc- 

 cessful with phims and cherries. Those 

 in the warmer parts may benefit by it, 

 and I believe the peach would do well 

 on it. Let those in more favorable 

 parts of the Province try it and give 

 their reports in this journal. 



Medora, Muskoka. T. A. H. 



REPORT ON PLANTS RECEIVED. 



I feel sure that your patience has 

 been well tried and must be nearly ex- 

 hausted with the way in which mem- 

 bers of the Association have withheld 

 the information they are expected to 

 give respecting the reports of the 

 plants, shrubs, trees, bushes, vines, &g., 

 which they received from the Associa- 

 tion. It may be some have not sent 

 one line to let you know how they have 

 done. We understand that each one 

 shall report on the success or otherwise, 

 -as the case may be, to the Secretary of 

 the Association for the information of 

 the Society and the country at large. 

 We read these reports with great inter- 

 est, and expect that others do the same. 

 It is of importance to the fruit growers 

 to know how they succeed in the vari- 

 ous parts of the Province. We are in 

 hope that the time is not far distant 

 when you will be well rewarded for 

 your patience. We say that the F. G. 

 Association of Ontario is doing a noble 

 work for the future as well as the pre- 

 sent. The past of the Society has been 

 comparatively small to what it must be 

 in the future. There are many who 

 do not understand the value or appre- 

 ciate the information which they should 

 receive and would receive were they to 

 unite their efforts in so noble and phi- 

 lanthi'ophic an undertaking as spread- 

 ing abroad useful information for the 

 present and future generations through- 

 out the length and breadth of our 

 beautiful Province, as well as the world 

 at large. I hope that some one favor- 



able may be induced to throw in their 

 mite and help forward so good a work. 



I wrote you several years ago giving 

 you a brief account of some of the trees 

 and vines received from the Associa- 

 tion. I now give you a brief account 

 from the beginning, as I do not know 

 where I reported to : — 



I became a member of the Associa- 

 tion in 



1872 — Received the Report. 



1873 — Received Grimes' Golden Pip- 

 pin, which was late in coming, and 

 about or quite dead. 



1874 — Received Downing's Goose- 

 berry and the Salem Grape, which have 

 done fairly well, the first mentioned 

 bearing some good gooseberries. The 

 grapes were slow in bearing, but now 

 we have some very fair grapes. We 

 do not think it needful to describe the 

 fruit, as it is well known. 



1875 — Received Flemish Beauty 

 Pear. It has borne some nice pears. 

 The tree is thrifty and doing well ; very 

 hardy ; moderately productive. 



1876 — Received the Glass Seedling 

 Plum. The tree has done well ; began 

 to bear in three years after planting 

 out ; have propagated by grafting ; 

 plums sell well in market ; fruit large, 

 medium in quality, good for market. ' 



1877 — Received Saunders' Hybrid 

 Raspberry. Killed the next winter 

 with frost. 



1878 — Received Burnet Grape. 

 Came in good order ; is now bearing ; 

 the fruit was small at first, but is doing 

 better now ; rather late in ripening ; 

 think it will do better after a time 

 when it gets a stronger vine. 



1879 — Received the Ontario Apple 

 tree from Mi\ Charles Arnold, of Paris. 

 The tree was injured in carriage ; think 

 it had been frozen ; cut it well back ; 

 grafted the cuttings ; one grew and is 

 now bearing some good fruit — a hand- 

 some striped apple, good size, large to 

 medium ; good winter apple for market. 



