CA .y^ DIA N Hon TIC UL TUNIS T. 



OPEN LETTERS. 



From Capleton Place. 



SiK,— Any snow apples I have seen this year 

 grown in this vicinity, are free from s|)()t,' my 

 own are perfectly clean, whereas last year they 

 were badly affected. I trust this immunity has 

 been general throughout the country. 



I did not spray my trees with Paris green, as 

 I had berries, etc., growing under them, and in 

 consequence some of them suffered terribly, 

 others escaped with but few apples damaged 

 by the codling worm. Grai)es did well except 

 a few of the late sorts, which did not ripen well 

 on account of the cold wet weather in Sei>- 

 tember. 



The Niagara grape vine I got from vou last 

 year is doing well ; and I have about a dozen 

 young Jessie strawberry plants from those 

 received this year ; there were two or three 

 berries on them, but they were neither very 

 large nor very well formed. I will expect better 

 results next year. 



Plums did well. My trees averaged about 

 •me and a half pails (patent) each, and they are 

 all young, say two to three inclies in diam'eter, 

 and they were worth from 75c. to 50c. jier pail, 

 according to time of picking. 



I had the pleasure of meeting President 

 McD. Allan, at Sault Ste. Marie, on his way 

 west, as we were both staying at the same 

 hotel. He seemed to be : i sy collecting informa- 

 tion regarding the fruit gi-owing cai)abilities of 

 that pretty neighborhood. 



'I'rusting that your most useful journal mav 

 have ever increasing prosperity. — Wm. H. 

 WvLiE, Carleton Place, Oct. 12, 188S. 



Trees and Plants Tested at Maple 

 Grove, Middlesex Co. 



FROM THE .ASSOCIATION. 



1. Fays'' Prolific Currant has done fairly 

 well, and I have set some young bushes froin 

 it. 



2. Lucretia Dewberry gave some few lierries 

 last year, and set a great many yourt? plants 

 and gives promise of an fabundart crop this 

 year. I much prefer the ordinar ' blackberries. 



3. The Nimjara Grope grew but got l)roken 

 down, and is jmshing bud from the root. 



4. The Doyenne Bmismck Pear that was 

 sent to me this year shows some signs of 

 growth. 



FRO.M OlHEK SOURCES. 



Roses are my favorites and I find no trouble 

 in growiner them even from seed, of which I 

 have some that has given me very good flowers. 

 I shall have some new ones this season. Of 

 the named varieties, the Gen. Jacqueminot 

 gave me a good display of brilliant flowers 

 until 'ate in the season. Perfection des 

 Blanches commenced quite early and continued 

 until frost ; Comtesse de Serenye is not as 

 hardy as some, but is an excellent rose. La 

 Reine has headed the class in the way of large 



flowers, aii<l bl,.(,iiis ,,ii till latt- in the season ; 

 but with La France I never had any success 

 whatever. While for early bloom I have what 

 i.s called the White and Yellow Scotch, they 

 come in flrst, and in mosses. White Perfection 

 is the hardiest here and gives a gi-eat many 

 flowers. While Henry Martin and Aphelis 

 Purpurea are very good, Eliza Rowe, I 

 think is the sweetest. T also have m<mthly 

 roses which I winter in the cellar and set out 

 in the spring and they will repay a little extra 

 trouble. 



I also have an assortment of other roses with- 

 out any particular name that I know of, that 

 help to make a good display in front. I find 

 that the cold of last winter has injured the 

 Almond,! -eutzia. Variegated Weigelia, Althea, 

 Bignonia Radicans, and some native shrubs 

 for which I have no name. Prunus Simoni 

 lived through it all and is started in growth 

 again. Calycanthus Floridus, Hardy Hydran- 

 gea, Syringa grandiflora, ' Honey - suckle, 

 Standard and Purple Barberry has come out 

 unharmed. The Yucca filamentosa came 

 through the winter nice and green, but the late 

 frosts after the snow went away discoloured its 

 leaves badly. It is an extra good plant for the 

 border, Init it does not like to be disturbed 

 after it is once established. It is better to hoe 

 the soil, mixing lightly in well-rotted manure. 

 The new Japan Iris is far ahead of the old 

 kind and about just as hardy. The various 

 varieties of Campanula (Canterbury Bell) make 

 an excellent show in summer ; while who could 

 wish for a finer display than what a grouj) of 

 fine double Holyhocks make later on in the 

 the season. For all summer flowers the 

 Carnation and Picotee, if carefully handled are 

 excellent garden friends. Some of the newer 

 Chinese Peonies are well worth the little that ' 

 they cost, and there is no flower better able to 

 take care of itself than it; while there area 

 great many diflerent colours. To those who like 

 the trouble of raising bullis from seed they can 

 add to their stock of choice plants hy saving a 

 few seeds from their best flowers and plant 

 them the following spring in well prepared 

 seed beds, they will bloom in one, two and 

 three years. 



Note. — The name of the writ^r of above 

 letter was omitted by mistake. — Ed. 



Report from Middlesex— The Catalpa 



—Puritan Potato— Champion 



Dwarf Tomato. 



Sir, —In reply to your recpiest regarding tht- 

 Catalpa, I received mine in the spring of 1885. 

 It made a strong shoot of nearly three feet, 

 but in the spring of 1886 I found it was frozen 

 dead to within seven inches of where the new 

 growth started. I then moved it to a more 

 sheltered spot, but each spring found it frozen 

 back. This summer it has made a very strong 

 growth and I think it will } et grow to be a tree. 

 The liest specimen of the Catalpa I have ever 



