CO THE CANADIAN HOrvTICULTURIST, 



COEIIESPONDENCE. 



MCINTOSH UED APPLE. 



I send herewith a sami)le of the above apple, which p?"omises to be the 

 best winter apple I know of for this and other cold sections. It is a native 

 of Dundas, onr neiirhboring county. I have seen the ])arent tree, which 

 was taken frofti the roadside on the edge of the timb':!r ivith nineteen or 

 twenty more and set in the garden of Mr. Allen Mcintosh, then owned by 

 his father, some eighty years ago. All the rest of these trees have been 

 dead for thirty or more years. The old tree is as bi'ight and smooth as a 

 young tree and still bearing. After a description of the Wealthy apple, 

 Dr. Hoskins, 'of Newport, in the last Montreal Horticitltui'al Society's 

 Report, speaking of the Mcintosh Red, says : " Here is a larger and 



-apparently longer keeping a[)ple that is hardier than the Fameuse. I am 

 rather astonislied that this variety, originated as it did in Canada, should 

 never yet hii\^ appeared upon tile tables of the Society's exhibitions. Mr. 

 Aaron Webstei-, of East Roxbnrj^, Vt., calls it a glorified Fameuse, with 

 the color and quality of that variety. A doubled size, a hardier tree, and 

 the same defect of 'spotting' in unfavorable seasons." I exhibited a poor 

 sample of the 'fruit at onr wintel- meeting of 1880, when, although it waS 



'only classed third rate, I had n'o hesitation in recomniending it as one of 

 the best for cold localities. The tree is perfectly hardy, a vigorous grower) 

 and the fruit keeps well till April. The owner of the original tree says he 

 remem.bers it well for fifty yealvs, and that it has never missed in a single 



.year, frost or no frost, to bear a good crop of apples. 



John Croil, Aultsville. 



Note. — The apple criilie to hand in a very damaged condition, 

 'tlie package wfeU smashed and the apple likewise. It had been a 

 beautiful apple in appearance, of large size and high color. Tlie flavor 

 was "good." It desetves special attention in northern localities. — Ed. 



Nut PlantiKg.---T?i answer to D. B. Hoover's question i^!i 'regard 

 to nut planting, I wotild state that if there are no squirrels to dig 

 them up I prefer to pfent the nuts in the fall, just before the ground 

 freezes. If, on the contrary, there is danger from the squirrels, after 

 having gathered the nUts and hulled them, place them in a pile before 

 they become dry and cover with four or five inches of earth. In the 

 spring, as soon as the frost is out of the ground, plant where yoti want 

 them to remain. I find that by transplanting mit trees there is danger 

 of injuring the tap root, thereby destroying the growth of the tree for 

 two or three years. Th^ larger the nuts used for planting are, the 

 ■larger and stronger yout trees will be. — Jonas Neff. 



