32 THE CANADIAN HOllTICULTURISll 



SOME OF OUE AMERICAN EVEEGREENS. 



Eobert Douoias, of Wakecjan, Illinois, lias raised more and a OTeater 



variety of Evergreens than any other man in America, hence his 



opinion of the merits of a variety, from his long experience in growing 



these trees, is entitled to great weight. He says : — 



" We find that our red and white pines 'compare very favoi-able with the 

 Scotch and Austrain pines of Eui'ope. Our wjiite spruce is as beautiful 

 and liard3' as the Norway spruce, but we need all these kinds for variety. 

 Our balsam fir will not compare fc^vorably with the European silver fir, or 

 the silver firs of the Pacific slope, but we have the Abies sub-alpina of 

 Wyoming, and its variety Falax, and the concolor of Colorado, the former 

 of the habit of Abies Sibirica, and the latter of the habit of the California 

 silver firs. We have the Abies Douglasii, of Colorado, more hardy, and 

 even more beautiful than our hen^lock. Among spruces we have the Colo- 

 rado Menzies, and Engelmanni, and all these with the exception of concolor 

 which have been tested thoroughly in the northwest, will compare in beauty 

 witli any of the foreign kinds, and in hardiness with any of our native kinds. 



YELLOW TEANSPAEENT APPLE. 



This variety was imported froni St. Petersburg, 1870, by the Department 

 of Agriculture. It has been fruited at a number of points east and west, 

 and we have every reason to believe it will prove a valuable acquisition as 

 a very earlj^ variety, of good quality, for either eating or cooking. Doctor 

 Hoskins, of Newport, Yermont, makes the following report : 



It is an extremely early bearer, giving fruit the third year from gi'afting. 

 on a seedling root, and is now beaiing its third ciop, consisting of over one 

 bushel. The tree notwithstanding its productiveness, is a free grower, being, 

 now some eight feet high. It is also an erect grower,. and bears its fruit on 

 short spurs close to the main branches, so that it can carry a heavy crop 

 when the tree is small without breaking down. Though so full of fruit that 

 there seem to be more apples than, leaves, yet the branches are not bent 

 down at all. 



In size the Yellow Tranaparent is fidl medium, round ovate in form, 

 straw 3'ellow in color, with an extremely melting, juicy flesh of delicate sub- 

 acid, but not very high flavor. It is fair, uniform in size and its chief merit, 

 in our eyes, aside fi'om its [)erfect hardiness and early and abundant bearing, 

 is that it is the earliest dessert apple we ki^qw. It begins to come into 

 eating by the first of August, an,d the bulk of the crop is just now (^August 

 10) ripening up. It will not keep long, soon becomi)ig mealy and cracking 

 open at tull maturity. But for a home apple, or to sell direct to consumer^ 

 in a near market, it cannot be surpassed; and its waxen beauty and iairness, 

 together with its acceptable flavor, will make it a fav.orite wherever grown. 

 It is about two weeks earlier than Tetofsky, and if it had been introduced 

 |irst we doubt if the latter would ever have been heard of. 



