THE 



Canadian Horticulturist 



Vol XVI. 



1893. 



No. 9. 



MOORE'S ARCTIC. 



jLUM growing in Ontario is becoming a very important industry. 

 The difficulties in its pursuit, such as knot, curculio, etc., only 

 , increase the chances of success in the case of those who per- 

 .L.T" severe. 



* In Southern Ontario we are able to grow nearly all the 

 more tender and luscious varieties, such as the Washington, 

 Jefferson, Bradshaw, Quackenbos, the Reine Claude, Gages, 

 etc., but further north, where these varieties are often too 

 tender, a plum like Moore's Arctic becomes of special value, 

 on account of its hardiness. Possibly it may commend itself to us all, on 

 account of its productiveness and its immunity from curculio stings. 



Dr. Hoskins, of Newport, Vt, after fourteen years' experience with it, states 

 that he has never seen the first mark of the curculio on the fruit, although the 

 common red plums were riddled by it. 



The tree begins bearing very young, and yields enormously. Mr. F. Sharp, 

 of Woodstock, N. B., has an orchard of this one variety, and he is able to ship 

 away the fruit by the car load. The trees are scarcely hardy enough for this 

 climate, and to overcome this difficulty, he has adopted a plan of laying down 

 the trees in autumn for winter protection, which was described in the Canadian 

 Horticulturist, some time ago. He prepares for this operation when 

 planting his trees, by setting them closely in trenches, and permitting the roots 

 to extend in two directions only. Then, on the approach of winter, the trees 



