THB CANADIAN' HORTICULTURIST. 



Strawberry of Montreal. — Tliis is none of the " Strawberry'' 

 apples of the books. The tree is extra hardy, and its stout and vigorous 

 .growth, and clean, glossy bark, show it to be especially adapted to the 

 ■old north. It is erect in growth, without having a dense head. Fruit 

 ubove medium in size, sometimes large, roundish -conic, yellowish, 

 mostly splashed with red. Flesh yellowish, tender, moderately juicy, 

 mildly sub-acid. It ripens with the Duchess of Oldenburg, but is a 

 better dessert apple. Placed by many growers among the best five for 

 profit, and I recommend it to the attention of your readers in the cold 

 north-west. 



Decarie. — Regarding this apple tree, I make the following extract 

 irom the invaluable report of the Fruit Committee of the Montreal 

 Horticultural Society for 1876: — "The original tree, producing this 

 noble apple, stood in Jeremie Decarie's orchard in Coteau St. Pierre, 

 east of the Cote St. Luke road, which orchard is now owned by 

 his grandson of the same name. It was cut down a few years 

 ago. It was then about a hundred years old, had a butt as large as a 

 flour barrel, and was of a height so remarkable as to be compared to 

 an elm. The tree is a vigorous grower, and forms an erect head, which 

 preads but very gradually, so that though it attains great size, yet it 

 may be planted fairly close. We have seen eighty, if not one hundred 

 of these trees, planted fifteen years ago on the Coteau, and growing in 

 sandy loam, and from these we judge the tree to be hardy and healthy. 

 It bears light and heavy crops alternately. We once saw seven barrels 

 under one tree which had been fifteen years planted. Mr. Lortie, 

 after marketing them for many years, says they are very profitable. 

 Fruit, on trees grown in grass, even when they have vsuffered from want 

 of drainage, large ; but when the soil was cultivated, very lai-ge, and 

 commanding marked attention. Form, roundish-conic to oblong-conic, 

 often deeply ribbed, with a deep, narrow, russety cavity, and a basin 

 which, though medium in depth, is wrinkled and obscurely ribbed^ 

 Color, light or dark red, sometimes very dark all over, and covered with 

 a beautiful bluish-white bloom, with many medium sized gray dots. 

 Flesh whitish, rather firm, juicy, with, says Downing, a slight peculiar 

 (piince-like flavor. Season, September fifteen to October first." 



With regard to the Famemse Sucre, the Fruit Committee of the 

 Montreal Horticultural Society say that it is "an inviting, blackish-red, 



