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Canada Reinette and Blenheim. 



Sir, — I was pleased to see an article of the Canada Rienette, with illustration, in your 

 January No. ; it was correctly represented. I have a large tree of it, and I intend to get 

 more. It is scarce in this section, in fact, unknown. I consider it one of our best apples. 

 It is a good and constant bearer, large size, very good keeper, and the tree is a strong and 

 thrifty grower. Both the Blenheim Orange and Kings have done well with me this year. 

 The fruit is generally of good quality, and little damaged by the codling moth. It think 

 the weather last spring was unfavorable for the moth, it being so very wet. 



Walter Hick, Goderich. 



Nomenclature of Russian Fruits. 



Sir, — If your correspondent states of the Bessemianka that it has small seeds, he makes 

 a mistake. It has no seeds at all, or, if any, they are very feebly developed. Iu Germany 

 it might be Samenlose, but it is not grown there. 



There are several varieties of the Titovka growing in Russia, as, for instance, the 

 Autumn, Winter, Light, Colored, etc. ; which one of them is called Titovka in America it 

 is difficult for me to understand without seeing the fruit. 



The finite "sky," as in Borovisky, Charlamovsky, Tetofsky, etc., are names received 

 abroad ; here they are called Borovinka, Charlamovka, Titovka. Some sorts of Russian 

 apples have been freely named in Great Britain, as, for instance, Count Orloff, Grand 

 Sultan, Grand Mogul, Grand Duke, Constantine, Peter the Great ; but under such names 

 nobody in this country recognizes them, and it has still more confused our nomenclature. 



In St. Petersburg there has lately been formed a society of Russian fiuit growers, 

 which wishes to make in 1894 a large exposition of fruits in Russia, and at that time will 

 call a congress 'for correcting the nomenclature of Russian apples. The president of this 

 young, but active society, is the Grand Duke Nicholas, cousin of the Czar, who, notwith- 

 standing his excellent position, is not only president of the society in name, but alway.s is 

 present at all the meetings. 



One of the directors of this society, General Glouchovsky, is appointed chief of the 

 Russian section of the Columbian Exposition. He is well informed, of an amiable disposi- 

 tion, and will not refuse to explain any questions which interest American pomologists in 

 relation to our native fruits. 



Jaroslav Niemitz, Winnilza, Podolie, Russia. 



The Lueretia Dewberry. 



Sir, — In the debate published in our report on the profitableness of the dewberry, you 

 suggest that people living at the north should write you their experience for publication. 

 When I first read of the dewberry I ordered a dozen plants, and put three of them in a 

 clean bed of rich earth (an old onion bed). I neglected covering them for two winters and, 

 in consequence, I got no fruit. On the approach of the third winter each root had grown 

 from two to four large, ripe canes, with a great many of smaller ones, from twelve to 

 fifteen feet long. After clipping off some of the weak and straggling tops, I raked all the 

 canes together in as straight a row as I could, and covered them thickly with asparagus 

 tops from an adjoining bed. The following spring the bed, two by ten feet, was quite a 

 picture of rich green foliage, thickly dotted with large, pure white blossoms, and on the 

 10th of September when the last half-pint of fruit was gathered, the garden book showed 

 that during the season there had been picked from these three plants nine quarts of the 

 largest and most juicy blackberries I ever saw or tasted. From this slight experience, I 

 think that the dewberry is worthy of a place in the garden, even if they do not pay for 

 high cultivation. The other nine roots of the dozen I planted along the grassy bank of a 

 small creek which runs through my garden, neglected covering them, and consequently 

 nothing but rank growth of cane in the summer and freezing back in the winter. This 

 winter I have them all thickly covered with asparagus tops and dry corn stalks cut from 

 an adjoining bed, and nature had aided me by sending thirty inches of well packed snow 

 on the top, and, therefore, I expect a good crop next year. The thermometer during the 

 past two weeks has ranged from 20° to 30° below zero here. 



F. W. Coate, Cape Elizabeth, Iiosseau, Ont. 



