CANAD/A.v iioirrici LrrnisT. 



medium size, good t'oiiii, and coni(;.s 

 into bearing early. It sticks well to 

 the branches during heavy winds and 

 lias been known to keep for twelve 

 months. 



Fall.\watick is a voiy large, beautiful 

 fruit, reddish on yellow skin, <|uality 

 good, origin Pennsylvania, Ohio and 

 parts of the west. Rambo is an 

 early winter apple, streaked with 

 yellow and red, tender, juicy, rich 

 sub-acid, excellent quality, succeeds 

 nearly everywhere except in the 

 severe localities of the west. .Sops 

 OK Wine is a valuable late summer ap- 

 ]>le, medium size, dark red, fine white 

 Hesh, sub-acid and tine flavored. Fruit 

 fair and,, showy. Ifawles' Janet is 

 hardy enougli for the far west, mostly 

 grown in Ohio. It blossoms late, hence 

 escapes late frosts. Mediuni size, pale 

 red, mild sub-acid, fine, crisp, juicy, a 

 long keeper. Stark is a large striped 

 apple, sub-acid, mild and good. A long 

 keeper, origin Oliio. 



If you are planting an apple orchard 

 and are at a loss to know what variet 

 ies to select, settle on Duchess and 

 Wealthy for two of the mo.st reliable 

 the country over. Duchess for fall, 

 Wealthy for winter. (>'ri-<'iis Fruit 

 iirouii'v. 



The Apple Blight. 

 TiiKKE is no remedy known for apple 

 l)light. It is a trouble due to the same 

 cause as pear bl'ght. The infection 

 comes fi'om the air, and enters the tree 

 through the ends of the twigs and 

 especially through the (lowers. Usually 

 only a few inches at the end of each 

 twig dies ; and it may be a month or 

 more after the tree becomes infected 

 before enough leaves have turned brown 

 to attract attention. No way is known 

 to prevent the entrance of the germs, 

 and when once in, no way of getting rid 

 of them but by amj)utation of the dis 

 eased liihbs. Occasionally the branches 

 will die down so far as to threaten th<r 

 life of the tree, in wliich case they 

 ought to be cut away : but often the 



(lisea.se comes to a staiiilstill without 

 the u.se of the knife, and the tree re- 

 ceives but a temjKMary and limited 

 check to its growth. — Dr. J. C. Arthur, 

 iltinevn^ N. Y. 



Cutting Back. 



TuEKE is no harm in taking a limii 

 oflf out toward the (uid of the branch, 

 away from the body of the tree. This 

 is not pruning, it is cutting back. If 

 we begin the young tree right and fol- 

 low it up, they never need .severe prun- 

 ing. 



Watei- .sprouts from grafted apple 

 trees may be trinime<l off during any 

 time in the year, but if done in the fall 

 or early winter it will be best to paint 

 over the wounds with lin.seed oil paint, 

 if the wounds are large. 



Ostheim Cherry. 

 TiiK Osthei)n cherry is almost exact- 

 ly like the English Morello and ripens 

 between the Karly Richmond and the 

 English Morello. It is very valuable, 

 hardy and jn-olific with Secietary (Jood- 

 man, of the Missouri Horticultuial So- 

 ciety, at Westpcrrt. The Early Rich- 

 mond cherry seems to do better upon 

 the common Morello stock than upon 

 .Mahaleb. But the objection to the 

 latter is that it sprouts, and the trees 

 are not desirable for this reason. ^ — Farm, 

 and Home. 



Wolf Rivep Apple. 

 The Wolf River apple, as exhibited 

 in Boston, appears to be so near like 

 Alexander, that specimens of one or 

 the other cannot be picked out of a 

 mixed lot.- Orchard and dnrdru. 



Keeping Apples. 



L.\.si' year I gathered a lot of dry 

 maple leaves, put a few in the bottom 

 of barrels, then a layer of ajiples, and 

 then a layer of leaves, and so on till the 

 barrels were full. I then covered them 

 with leaves and they kept nicely. 1 



