360 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Oldenburg. It comes to bearing quite soon enough, though it does not fruit 

 in the nursery, like Wealthy and Yellow Transparent. Young trees, four years 

 set, usually begin to show some fruit, and they are well loaded by the sixth 

 season. The apple resembles Grimes' Golden, though with a slightly coarser 

 appearance, and a little roughness of skin. In size it is a full medium. The 

 form is ovate. As to its quality, it is a very good eating apple — not particularly 

 fine flavored nor the reverse, moderately soft fleshed and palatable, but not very 

 juicy. It is plainly a good shipping apple, and will sell as well as any yellow 

 apple of its season, which is about that of Fameuse, or a little later. This is 

 what Prof. Budd calls the " King Apple of the Steppes," in allusion to its 

 abundance and popularity in Central and Eastern Russia. 



The Longfield.— Though rather disappointed in the size of Longfield, 

 I am very well satisfied with its quality, which, without any resemblance, 

 is quite as good as that of Fameuse, while the tree is much hardier, and an even 

 earlier and freer producer. The fruit on my trees is just about the size of 

 Fameuse, but more conical, with a greenish white skin, and a blushed cheek, — 

 a pretty little apple that is even better than it looks. It is possible that high 

 culture, or increased age of tree, will give us larger fruit, such as I have had 

 specimens of from the West. The Longfield, like the Yellow Transparent, seems 

 to belong to a family having very close resemblances. English Pippin is much 

 like it, but rather handsomer, the red cheek being brighter, but the quality is 

 hardly distinguishable, nor does the fruit keep better. Good Peasant is another 

 close cousin, which has not yet fruited with me, but which I am told, while 

 otherwise much the same, is by several weeks a better keeper. The tree is a 

 good grower, but rather irregular, with slightly deflexed branches, growing closely, 

 and needing care in forming a head. With this, they make a good nursery tree, 

 which bears young and profusely. Season about with Fameuse, or somewhat 

 later. 



There will be no difficulty in telling when the pods of the radish are in 

 proper condition to remove ; this will be known by their yellowish and ripe 

 appearance. Do not wait for them to burst open but gather them carefully and 

 lay them away in the shade in a ventilated room to dry. 



Pansies to bloom well require a low temperature, and the greatest difficulty 

 in blooming the plants in the house would be the warm dry air. If the plants 

 could have a cool room there should be no trouble in blooming them. 



Give the young folks a share of the products for their very own, and it will 

 go a long way toward solving the vexed question with some as to how to keep 

 them on the farm when grown up and ready to go out and do for themselves. — 

 E. \V. Marlatt. 



