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another seedling from tlie same town wore all very fine apples — all natives 

 of this State, and all attracting marked attentiion in good fruit regions 

 among men thorougldy posted on apples for money. But time and trial 

 can only tell their future. A score of years have been industriously spent 

 in trying to supersede the WiLson strawberry and the Concord grape, and 

 they rank no higher among good fruits than does the Ben Davis. Yet to- 

 day they stand without a peer — for what 1 making nurtiey, and that is what 

 we are all after. — Prairie Farmer , 



CORRESrONDENCE. 



LETTER FROM MAXITOBA. 



T have been nearly six years in ]Manitoba now, and am very much inter- 

 ested in all that pertains to fruit raising and forest tree culture, and any 

 information I can give you on these two subjects, I would be most happy 

 to afford you. So far, I have had very fair success with my small fruit 

 (excepting gooseberries), but with apples I have not been so fortunate. 

 The first ones I planted I obtained from Rochestsr, N, Y., and they died 

 after I had had them three years — sun scalded. I planted out last spring 

 six Wealthy, six Fameuse, six Northern Spy, and six Red Astrachau, 

 besides a dozen of crabs, and half a dozen Early Richmond cherries, and I 

 liope to have better luck with these. I have planted a willow grove to tho 

 west of my little orchard, a single lino of willows on the south, and have a 

 belt of bush on the north, so they are only unsheltered on the east. We 

 have plenty of wild gooseberries, currants, strawberries, raspberries, plums, 

 and a sort of high-bush cranberry, about the size of a Red Cherry currant ; 

 and I am going to try the effect of cultivation iipon some of these. I 

 planted out a number of raspberries from the bush, and the result was 

 very encouraging, for some of the canes fairly broke down with the amount 

 of fruit on them. We have plenty of wild grapes, and I am going to plant 

 some tame ones. I have two Janesvilles heeled in, and will get some 

 Champions and Moore's Early. Perhaps by cross-fertilizing with some of 

 our native gi-apes, I may succeed in obtaining a variety perfectly hardy, and 

 adapted (o our somewhat peculiar climate. Late spring and early fall frosts 

 are the woret obstacles that fruit raisers lias to contend with here, but I 

 believe that if our people went into tree-planting as they ought to do, 

 that our extremes of climate would soon be modified. They could not 

 succeed in raising apples, <Src., on the prairie* of Iowa, until they planted 

 shelter, and I think when the people of Manitoba go and do likewise, that 

 we will be able to raise many varieties of fruit that we have to im[)ort at 

 present. Wo have one advantage that many parts of Ontario do not i)0sscs8, 

 viz: the soil does not "heave," and that is something for tho Manitoba horti- 

 cultuiists. I have been trying, as far as my limited ability would allow me, 

 to got our people to take more interest in beautifying their places, and 

 adding to their comfort, by going in wholesale for tree planting. 



• —II. P. B., ThwiihilL 



