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VARIETIES HAVING MADE HEALTHY GROWTH SINCE PLANTED, THOUGH NOT 



GIVING FRUIT YET. 



Apples. — Alexander, Babushkino, Blush Calville, Bode, Gipsy Girl, Golden 

 Russet, Golden White, Grand Duke Constantine, Hare Pipka, Louis Favorite 

 Mcintosh Red, Peach, Princess Louise, Red Astrachan, Red Queen, St. 

 Lawrence, Titovka, White St. Lawrence. 



Pears. — Baba, Bessemianka. 



Plums. — -Bradshaw, John Trotter, Moore's Arctic. 



For the sake of variety, I have also brought in my orchard from the forest 

 some of our wild fruit bearing trees and shrubs, and these are great favorites with 

 my children. I offer here a list of them : 



Choke Cherry (Cerasus Virginiana). 



Hazel (Corylus Americana rostrata.) 



High Cranberry (Viburnum opulus or edule). 



June Berry (Amelanchier Canadensis). 



Mountain Ash (Sorbus Canadensis). 



Mountain Currant (Ribes prostratum). 



Wild Gooseberry (Ribes rotundifolium). 



Wild Red or Bird Cherry (Cerasus Canadensis). 

 St. Denis, P. Q. J. C. Chapias. 



THE QUINCE RUST. 



It is important to know that the quince rust grows in ( one form upon 

 another plant, for it is possible to check its ravages by diminishing the chances 

 of its being able to find a cedar upon which to live. So far as we know it seems 

 likely that if the cedars were absent the rust of the quinces would not be pre- 

 sent. The quince stage of the rust is not confined to the quince, but thrives 

 upon the apple, hawthorn and shad bush, in fact it was first found upon matters 

 somewhat, for the shad bush and the hawthorn serve as breeders for the trouble- 

 some parasite in the hedgerow and wood lot. The rust that is now under con- 

 sideration is quite different from the many molds, mildews and blights that prey 

 upon our crop plants, and may be held in check with fungicides. The rusts 

 proper, of which there are many hundred kinds, are deeply seated gross-feeding 

 fungi, and usually have done a large portion of their mischief before observed. 

 There is but little doubt, however, that spraying might be effective, if the time 

 was known when to do it. This would mean the application of the fungicide to 

 the quince trees at the time, or just before, the spores are mature upon the 

 cedar nodules. A better way, however, seems to be found in the removal of 

 cedars from the vicinity of quince trees. As another cedar gall fungus is asso- 

 ciated with rust of the apple, it is all the more important to separate the cedars 

 from our orchard fruits, to prevent these diseases. — American Agriculturist. ' 



