124 THE CANADIAN HOrtTlCULTURIST. 



COEEESPONDENCE. 



SEEDLING PEACH. 



You ask, concerning those peaches I sent by mail, " Is the tree more 

 hardy tlian other sorts'?" I think it is ; it never lias winter-killed, except 

 winter before last the tips of the limbs in some places were hurt, but the 

 cause was unusually i late and heavy growth. The limbs grew three feet 

 and more, and that winter the thermometer went down to 25 decrees 

 below zero here. Th^e tree stands in front of my back kitchen, facing the 

 south, consequently it blossoms earlier than it otherwise would; and last 

 Bpi'ing it was in full bloom when we had a heavy white frost covering the 

 grass, but it come out all right so you can judge of its hardiness. 



— Manning Brown, Collingwood. 



MEETING OF THE AMERICAN POMOLOGICAl'sOCIETY. 



Thanks for the Horticulturist, which I always peruse with pleasure. 

 This writing is to state that I intend to bring the American Pomological 

 ■Society to Boston next September, and I desire that this appointment 

 may not conflict with the d;iys of other societies. — M. P. Wilder, Boston. 



ENSILAGE. 



This subject is attracting considerable attention among leading 

 agriculturists in the United States, and many are very enthusiastic 

 •over the advantages which this system of curing green fodder is 

 thought to possess over the usual method of preserving it by -drying. 

 In order to preserve fodder by this process it is necessary to construct 

 what is termed a " silo," which is a pit or vat, whose sides and bottom 

 €ire made water tight, with the top open. The sides or walls must be 

 perpendicular, so that there shall be nothing to prevent the settling or 

 compressing of the fodder which is put in. It is built near the barn, 

 sometimes in the basement of the barn, for convenience of feedincr. 

 The forage, which may be clover or grass, corn sown thick or millet, 

 Hungarian grass or rye, is cut and immediately run through a fodder- 

 cutter, which cuts it into half inch lengths or less, and this is thrown 

 into the silo and carefully distributed and tramped so as to pack it 

 close, particularly at tlie sides and corners. When the silo is filled, 

 the fodder is covered with about six inches of straw, 'and over this is 

 laid planks, so cut as to fit the silo. Upon the planks weights are 

 placed, stone, iron, boxes filled wdth sand or earth, — in short, anything 

 that will cause a constant pressure upon the contents of the silo, 

 'following it down as it settles. 



