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frequently reaches market in very l)!icl 

 shape on that account. 



We know of no remedy for this 

 unless tluj growers can make some 

 arrangement with the Hallway Com- 

 pany to give them a local or fruit train 

 to run once a day, which will stop at 

 all stations sufficiently long to enable 

 the express people to load the fruit 

 properly, and reach Toronto as early in 

 the day as possible, or say late in the 

 evening when it can be disposed of 

 early the following day. 



In conclusion we strongly urge all 

 growers to put their fruit up honestly, 

 make it a good straight sample 

 throughout, as good at the bottom as on 

 the top. Buyers here are very keen 

 now and when they once l)uy a package 



of fruit and find it does not turn out all 

 through the same as on top, they note 

 tlie shippers name and the next time 

 they see any fruit from tiie same 

 shipper, they approach it with great 

 care and will not pay as high a price 

 for it. On the other hand if a buyer 

 sees a brand of fruit come in that he 

 has had before and found it to be 

 honestly put up, he will not wait to 

 look at it a second time, but buy it 

 (juickly. Good brands get to be known 

 as well as bad ones. 



Trusting these few remarks may be 

 of some benefit to your readers. 



We remain. Sir, 



Yours I'espectfully, 

 McWiLLiAM cl' EvERisT, Toronto. 



SEEDLING PEACHES. 



Sir, — Yimr mention of tin- i)e;icli fi<Ji) in tlir 

 June HOKTICULTUKIST lead.s nie to tell you tliat 

 in our garden, in a spot against the kitchen 

 wall (rougli cast) grows a seedling peach that 

 was here when we came to the house five years 

 ago. Three years ago, it bloomed for the first 

 time, and the fruit proved to be (juite different 

 from any we have ever seen. It is large — often 

 nine inches round — of a pale green, with 

 whitish flesh, a free stone, and very late in 

 ripening, never ready until October. As a 

 talile fruit it is not desirable, having neither 

 Havour nor sweetness, but for pre.serving, I do 

 not know a better. 



Fordryinj,' in sugar after the fashion of the 

 expensive boxed Frencii fruits, it is superior t(j 

 any i>eacli 1 know of. Twice I have dried it, 

 and with the fullest success. The flavour is 

 delicious, and tiie texture all that can be 

 desired. Is not iiere a new fruit industry. If 

 you would like to know more of it, I shall be 

 iiappy to infiirm you. — S. A. ClUZON, Tontntn. 



SKEDLING, or natural peaches, are 

 usually found to be hardier than 

 such tender varieties as Early and Late 

 Crawford, Old Mixon, etc. Very often 

 after a severe winter our peacli crop 

 has consisted of only such kinds as 

 Hale.s, Purples, and Late Naturals. 

 Nor are seedlings to be altogether dis- 

 pised in Ontario. Indeed it is from 

 them that many of our best varieties 



have been selected, and by careful at- 

 tention to growing them, no doubt kinds 

 might be originated more suited to our 

 country than many of those now culti- 

 vated. The Early Canada and Bows- 

 laugh's Late are examples of what may 

 be done in this direction, the former a 

 Clingstone resembling the Alexander, 

 and the latter a fine late yellow flesh 

 peach of good quality somewhat re- 

 sembling the Early Crawford. Both 

 of these are Canadian seedlings. 



The Wager peach is another fine ex- 

 ample of success with seedlings. It 

 originated in New York State, and is 

 very latge, yellow, juicy and of fine 

 flavour. It is comparatively hardy 

 and reproduces itself fairly well from 

 its own seed. We have grown seed- 

 ling peaches at times <|uite extensively 

 at Maplehurst, and while many of them 

 have been unworthy of the room they 

 occupied, we have occasionally found a 

 tree well worthy of cultivation, both 

 on account of size, and because it would 

 bear fruit when tender kinds were cut 



