426 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



A NORTHERN ORCHARD. 



Dear Editor, — 



jjHEN I had the pleasure of meeting you at the World's Fair, at 

 Chicago, I told you that I felt pretty queer to see almost every 

 American who visited our Canadian fruit exhibit, showing their 

 astonishment at the nice display that the Province of Quebec, 

 " such a cold country," had sent there. Then you asked me to 

 give you for the Horticulturist a few notes on what we are 

 doing in connection with fruit growing, hoping that, perchance, thosea stonished 

 Americans would read and learn what we can really do in that line. This is to 

 explain to your readers why a Quebec fruit grower trespasses on their ground. 



To show you what are the possibilities of fruit culture in our far north, I 

 cannot do better than to tell you what I have done myself in my experimental 

 orchard, which is situated at St. Denis, Kamouraska County, Province of 

 Quebec, 47 30' north latitude. 



This orchard is situated on ground composed of equal parts of clay 

 and sand, gently sloping to the north. I planted it in the spring of the year 

 1889. All my trees have had to stand this year the coldest winter we have 

 experienced for thirty years ; the thermometer having marked as low as 30 F. 

 It is then no bold assertion on my part to say that all the trees and shrubs 

 which have fruited in my orchard this year are surely acclimatized here, and that 

 probably many of those which gave no fruit, but made a good growth this last 

 season, have a good chance to be useful to us, too. 



With these preliminary remarks, I will now simply give you one list of the 

 trees and shrubs which have fruited here this summer, and another of those 

 which has made a healthy growth since they were planted, and specially this 

 year, though not having yet given any fruit. 



VARIETIES HAVING FRUITED IX THE SUMMER OF 1 893. 



Apples. — Antonovka, Arabka (summer), Arabka (winter), Duchess of Olden- 

 burg, Fameuse, Hyslop, Longfield, Charlottenthaler, Trancendant, Wealthy, 

 Whitney. 



Plums. — Coe's Golden, Damson, Lombard, Reine Claude, Shropshire 

 Damson, Smith, Orleans, Lombard. 



Cherries. — Bessarabian, Early Richmond, Lutovka, Montmorency, Vlad- 

 imir. 



Gooseberries. — Downing, Houghton, Pearl, Smith's Improved, Yates. 



Currants. — Black Naples, Fay ; s Prolific, Yersaillaise, White Grape. 



Raspberries. — Antwerp, Golden Queen, Marlboro, Reliance, Souhegan 

 (blackcap), Stone's Hardy (blackberry), White (of French origin). 



Strawberries. — Sharpless, White Alpine. 



