1^6 tItE CA^^iDIAN liORTICtLTUrtlST. 



bury Rilsset ever lived to reach bearing a<T^e in Nortli-Eastei'n Vermont* 

 Even such liardy kinds as Westfield Seek-no-Further, Blue Pearmain, 

 dolman Sweet, Fameuse, and Red Astrachan, succeed only locally and 

 ])recaiiously, so that they cannot be grown profitably for mai-ket. 



The task which I set myself fifteen years ago was to test every hardy 

 sort I could hear of and obtain, in order to see whether varieties did exist 

 Vliich could be planted hei-e and in similar exposed localities with security. 

 I Lave accomplished the work, after testing over 250 varieties, collected 

 from the coldest localities in America. The result is that this part of New 

 England, from having not a single variety of api)le (outside of the crabs) 

 ■Which the people had confidence to plant, is now rapidly becoming a region 

 of orchards unsurpassed in any part of the country for vigor or fruit- 

 fulness. 



TOO TENDEia.. 



In the first place I will give a mere list of the varieties which have 

 been utterly "wiped out" by Jack Frost. These embrace the Williams' 

 Favorite, Yellow Bellflower, Black Oxford, American Summer Pearmaiuj 

 Red Canada (not a Canadian apple, notwithstanding the name), Morgan 

 Sweet, McClellan, Grimes' Golden, Gravenstein, Granite Beauty, Fair- 

 banks, Ramsdell Sweet, Canada Reinette (not grown in Lower Canada to 

 any extent), Franklin Sweet, ii^all Orange, Summer Hagloe, Colvert, Muu- 

 son Sweet, Golden Sweet, Jewett's Fine Red, Fall Pippin, Moses Wood^ 

 Minkiei", Mamie Cathead, Cooper's Market, Yellow Ingestrie, Whitney 

 Russet, besides quite a number "not in books." It will be noticed that 

 there are many sweet apples in this list. My experience is that, as a 

 rule, this class of apples is more tender than others. There are very few 

 to be found in the Province of Quebec ; so few, indeed, that the people have 

 no taste for them, and they are not saleable in the markets of the large 

 towns. Now come the 



" Almost hardy," 

 the most vexatious of all, because they neither thrive nor die. Some of 

 them, indeed, do tolerably in favored spo%, but none will do to plant 

 extensively with a View to profit. 



St. Lawrence. — Around the eity of Montreal and on the hills which 

 rise out of the flat country between Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence 

 River, this beautiful and excellent Fall apple is productive and profitable. 

 It is doubtless a Fameuse seedlitlg (as so many of the Lower Canadian 

 apples are), having a similar flavdr and the same snowy-white flesh. Very 

 few of these Fameuse seedlillgS db well in the more elevated country. 

 Both parent and progeny develop the vice — inherent in them, but little 

 seen under the more favorable conditions — of spotting, and to this the St. 

 Lawrence adds cracking and shy bearing, together with some tenderness of* 

 tree. Not profitable here. 



Red Astrachan. — Tree tender ; fruit smaller and less fair than in more 

 favorable places. Not profitable. 



Fameuse. — Bears young and well, but the fruit is not so large or so fail* 

 as at Montreal or the Champlain Valley, and the tree is plainly tender^ 

 Profitable, yet not safe to plant extensively. 



