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CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



A LIST OF HARDY APPLES FOR THE COLD NORTH. 



WE frequently receive enquiries 

 concerning the raost reliable 

 varieties of apples for the colder por- 

 tions of Ontario and Quebec. Having 

 experience chiefly with such varieties 

 as are adapted to Southern Ontario, 

 we have to depend upon the experience 

 of others with regard to those best 

 suited to the Northern portions. Such 

 kinds as the Baldwin, Greening and 

 Northern Spy, which we grow for the 

 export trade, would be wholly unfitted 

 to withstand the severe winters of 



list of the best apples for the extreme- 

 north, prepared by Dr. Hoskins, of 

 Vermont, who has given years of 

 patient study and experiment to this 

 particular branch of pomology. 



For shimmer. — Yellow Transparent, 

 Tetofsky. 



For autumn. — Duchess of Olden- 

 burgli, Alexander, McMahon's White, 

 St. Lawrence, Switzer. 

 \e»For winter. — Wealthy, Scott's Win- 

 ter, Mcintosh Red, Fameuse, Bethel 

 of Vermont. 



-McMahon's White. 



those parts, and therefoi'e others, pos- 

 sibly less valuable in our markets, must 

 be substituted. Indeed it is a great 

 boon to farmers residing in localities 

 where orchardingwaspreviously regard- 

 ed as wholly out of the question, to find 

 that there are apples, of fine quality and 

 appearance too, which may be success- 

 fully grown. Some of these apples have 

 been introduced from Europe, and some 

 have originated in the Western States. 

 For the benefit of our members so 

 situated as to be interested, we sive a 



Many of these varieties have been 

 tested in Canada and reported upon 

 through these pages. In January, 

 1887, a colored plate of the Yellow 

 Transparent was given our readers, 

 and the previous year the tree was in- 

 cluded in our plant distribution for 

 general testing. A large number of 

 trees have been top grafted with it 

 and other Russians at Maplehurst, and 

 this year the first specimen of the 

 Transparent was produced. It was in. 



