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CA NA DIA N HO R TIC UL TURIST. 



ijLit oblong in form, and slightly 

 conical. The colour is not so attractive, 

 being a dull green, with a very faint 

 splash of brownish red on one cheek, 

 with white dots. Stalk one inch long, 

 in a deep, narrow, even cavity. Calyx 

 closed in a small shallow basin. Flesh 

 white, tender, juicy, mild; quality good. 

 To our taste this apple is inferior in 

 quality to the Early Harvest, and also 

 to Morse's Seedling ; yet on account of 

 its line size and freedom from spot, it 

 may prove worthy of cultivation in 

 some sections, especially as an eai'ly 

 cooking apple, for home use and for 

 market. 



Seedling Gooseberries. 



De.\k Sih,— Mr. S. Greenfield lias just 

 handed me in some samples of seedling goose- 

 berries raised from an English one. The sam- 

 ples were raised on ground that never had any 

 manure and grown below trees. If ])roper 

 cultivation were given to them they would be 

 twice the size they are. Mr. Greenfield de- 

 serves every encouragement. He has number- 

 ed them and expects your opinion of them 

 through the Horticulturist.— N. Robertson, 

 Ottawa. 



The samples came to hand in 

 bad order, because not packed 

 tightly enough in the box. Our friends 

 in sending specimens should use cotton 

 batting or other material, and pack 

 the fruit tightly. 



The seedlings are numbered from 1 

 to 5. No. 1 strikes us most favorably, 

 being \-ery large, and light green in 

 color. Numbers 2 and 5 are somewhat 

 alike in appearance, but both of a dark 

 green color, resembling the Ottawa, 

 and both large in size but inferior in 

 quality to No. 1. Numbers 3 and 4 

 are light yellow in color, but both too 

 small for propagation as market berries. 



So far as we can judge from the state 

 of the samples, we would advise Mr. 

 Greenfield to propagate numbers 1 and 

 5, and send some plants to the Ex- 

 perimental Farm for careful testing. 

 For the best results, however, we must 

 depend upon varieties having more or 

 less native blood, and if Mr. Grfeenfield 



would attain the highest success, he 

 should at least cross the En;jlish varie- 

 ties with some of our best natives. 

 European varieties of apples, pears, 

 grapes, straw bei'ries, etc., are not as a 

 rule the varieties most suited to our 

 soil and climate, and the same rule is 

 found true of gooseberries, unless 

 under the most favorable conditions. 



Crosby's Seedling Gooseberry. 



Dear Sir,— I have sent you by to-day's 

 mail a sample of gooseberries grown on a bush 

 which I received from Mr. L. Crosby,of Mark- 

 ham, about seven years ago. They seem to be 

 free from mildew, and if propagated I think 

 would prove a valuable addition to our small 

 fruits. Mr. Crosbj' called it Crosbj^'s Seed- 

 ling. Four years ago I gave Mr. Ellis, of 

 Orillia, some gooseberries and he raised some 

 bv-!^bcs from them. They are now fruiting 

 well and bearing good fruit. I have been 

 moving about or I would have had more bushes 

 by this time. I remain yours, A Reeve, High- 

 land Creek: 



If this gooseberry is a Canadian 

 seedling it is truly, a marvel of excel- 

 lence. The box sent us by Mr. Keeve 

 contained four samples in excellent 

 condition, and so large, and of such a 

 very dark red color, that one would at 

 first declare they were plums, and not 

 gooseberries at all. The fruit may be 

 described as very large, roundish, 

 slightly oval, skin smooth, thin, very 

 dark I'ed, with veins of lighter red, 

 mostly dotted with small grey dots ; 

 stem stout, calyx prominent. Quality- 

 excellent. 



At present it appears there is no 

 fruit with which we are so behind the 

 English gardeners as with gooseberries. 

 While they have more than a hundred 

 choice varieties of red. white, green 

 or yellow color, we have only two 

 or three green varieties and one or two 

 red worthy of general cultivation, and 

 these too small in size to bring much 

 money in the market. Such a goose- 

 berry as Crosby's Early, if it continues 

 mildew proof, would take wonderfully 

 in our markets. It has, however, 

 every appeai-ance of being a full blood- 

 ed English gooseberry 



