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FRUIT NEAR AULTSVILLE, 

 STURAIONT. 



Apples are not so much spotted as 

 last year, but still badly affected, espec- 

 ially the St. Lawrence and Fameuse, 

 although I gathered twenty four barrels 

 of Fameuse yesterday from four trees 

 with hardly a spot. I could not give 

 like experience for many years back. 

 Yet at least half of my Fameuse trees 

 are bearing fruit that is almost worth- 

 less. The east side of the orchard is 

 always the worse. Trees that are much 

 shaded are not always most spotted. 

 The fruit on young trees is as badly 

 spotted as on old. Trees in an orchard 

 seeded down for ten years are this year 

 more free from spot than those in the 

 garden. We have had frosts, 29th 

 September, but not enough to hurt the 

 grapes, which are doing well. Worden 

 was ripe a week ago, and Moore's Early, 

 both tine grapes, the former especially. 

 I pulled some Delaware, Wilder, 

 Massasoit and Brighton to-day fairly 

 ripe. Massasoit, although quite eat- 

 able, shews a good many uncolored 

 berries. 



John Croil. 



THE CLEMATIS. 



(For the Horticulturist.} 



In the County of Lambton this 

 beautiful and thiifty climber and ele- 

 gant flowering plant, in some of its im- 

 pi'oved and modern forms, is likely to 

 be a grand success. It is true we are 

 only just getting our interest in the 

 Clematis in its improved form properly 

 ai'oused, but yet several have been in- 

 duced to try their luck by planting a 

 root or two in our climate and surround- 

 ings, and when tliis has been properly 

 done the satisfaction even for the tirst 

 season has genei-ally been very great. 

 The consequence is that the interest in 

 it is extending among our people. The 

 Clematis seems to have so many tine 

 qualities to recommend it that it can- 



not fail of being a great favorite 

 amongst us when thoroughly introduc- 

 ed. In the first place by means of 

 slight winter protection the roots are 

 known to be perennial, and although 

 the tops should die down to the ground 

 yet the next season's growth produces 

 such a remarkable profusion of vine, 

 foliage and beautiful flowers that it is 

 quite astonishing, and will never fail 

 to draw the attention of the most casual 

 observers to so gorgeous a spectacle. 

 These vines can readily be made to 

 climb over and cover an old fence, or a 

 trellis made for the purpose, and in 

 either case the result will be attractive 

 and charming, or they may be made to 

 fill artificially prepared lattice work or 

 wiie work about the home varandah 

 and produce the finest effects immagin- 

 able in the decoration of the home. The 

 flowering season, commencing as it 

 does in June or July, will last until 

 October, thus filled by a succession of 

 bloom during the whole season. In 

 my travel this summer I came to the 

 home of a lady who had been induced 

 by some tree agent to purchase a root 

 of an improved Clematis the year before 

 at a great price. The lady had care- 

 fully planted it just at the west end of 

 her beautiful residence in Watford 

 where it grew finely and made her 

 home still more beautiful by its abund- 

 ant foliage and mass of gorgeous flowers. 

 About the first object of interest on 

 her lawn that she had to show me with 

 an honorable pride was this Clematis, 

 then in full bloom, planted by the side 

 of her house only the summer before. 

 The growth was very surprising. It was 

 trained on a nice, neat trellis about 

 ei<dit feet hit;h and five or six feet wide 

 at the top, and the whole space was 

 almost covered by the most georgeous 

 mass of distinctive blue bloom. It 

 was most certainly a very atti-active 

 object to her family and her visitors, 

 and not only abundantly repaid her for 



