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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



HORTICULTURAL CONCLUSIOJs^S. 



PROF J. L. BUDD. 



Some of the conclusions reached by 

 tlie experts at tlie recent meetings of 

 tlie Mississipi Valley Horticultural 

 Society at New Orleans, ami of the 

 Iowa State Horticultural Society at 

 Atlantic, are worthy of brief notice. 



Wild Black. Cherry. — Slowly but 

 surely this tree is coming to the front 

 as one of the most valuable lor varied 

 soils in most parts of the Northern and 

 Western States. Very many reported 

 it easy to propagate from pits, very 

 rapid in growtli, and best for many 

 economic uses of timber. Dozens of ex- 

 amples have been given where on high, 

 dry, prairie soils it has made more 

 growth in 15 years than Soft ]Maple. 



Yellow Transparent Apple. — From 

 many States of the Union come good 

 words for this earliest of summer apj)les. 

 Even experts from New York, Connec- 

 ticut, New Jersey and Ohio, agx-eed 

 that it was earlier than Early Harvest, 

 quite as large and handsome and fully 

 equal in quality. In addition, it comes 

 earlv into bearing, and seems as resnlar 

 in its crops as the Duchess. In the 

 INIississippi Valley it was reported favor- 

 ably, in Minnesota and in Texas. 



Charlottexthaler belongs to the 

 same Russian family as the Yellow 

 Transparent. It is now added to the 

 recommended list of the Iowa Society, 

 and has received favourable reports from 

 nearly all parts of Mississip})i Valley. 

 It is larger in size than the Transi)arent ; 

 but of the same shape, coloi-, and quality. 

 The tree is a better grower in the 

 nursery and has pi-oven as free from 

 twig blight as the Duchess. The 

 general belief now is that it will prove 

 the best early apple over a large portion 

 of the States east of the Rockies. 



The Loxgfield Apple has been ex- 

 hibited and i-eported favourably upon 

 by dozens of careful observers. It bears 



heavy crops when young, and during 

 our past extreme seasons it has made a, 

 growth of eighteen inches of new wood 

 when maturing a heavy crop of fruit. 

 Mr. Haviland, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, 

 re[)orted that 4:'2'^ below zero the present 

 winter had not coloied the wood of the 

 Longfield, while that of the Duchess 

 was uincii reddened. 



This variety promises great things for 

 the cold Nortii, as above the 42nd paral- 

 lel on the prairies it is a good keeper of 

 really excellent quality. On oiir i-ich 

 prairie soils it attains the size of Roman 

 Stem, and colors up as prettily as the 

 Maiden's Blush. It may be well to say 

 that the variety which Dr. Hoskins has 

 guessed to be Longfield is wholly differ- 

 ent in size, color, and quality, but 

 promises to be valuable. 



WiXTERAPUT. — In the exhibit of 

 apples from Moscow at New Orleans 

 the plates of this ancient apple attracted 

 much attention. It is smaller than 

 Alexander, and moi-e regular in form. 

 Its striping is coarse and irregular ; stem 

 long, in deep, regular, russeted cavity ; 

 eye large, open, in irregular, ridgetl 

 basin. 



It is a popular winter apple, of far 

 better quality than Willard, in Central 

 Russia. The trees have been widely 

 distributed in the Mississippi Valley, 

 and are proving hardy even in Northern 

 Dakota. Top-worked trees have fruited 

 in Northern Iowa. 



AuToxooKA. — The specimens of this 

 apple from Moscow were not in good 

 condition after their long voyage ; but 

 its near relative, English Reinette, was 

 as firm and bright as when packed in 

 October. The family attracted much 

 attention and brought out much dis- 

 cussion. The point was made that this 

 ancient family of yellow apple of the 

 Russian steppes has planted its birth- 

 marks on a number of our yellow apples 

 noted for their hardiness. Autonooka, 



