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(Eanabian 



Dorticulturiet 



Published at Toi^onto and Grimsby, Ont. 

 OFFICE ADDRESS— GRIMSBY, ONT. 



VOL. X.] 



JANUARY, 1887. 



[No. 1. 



JfruitB. 



THE YELLOW TRANSPARENT. 



The readers of the Canadian Horti- 

 culturist will be pleased to see a colored 

 plate of an apple that has so much to 

 commend it as the Yellow Transparent, 



This is not a new and unti-ied fruit, 

 but is proved to be one of the few 

 apples of real excellence which is ad- 

 apted to the northerly portions of the 

 apple region. It was imported from 

 St. Petersburg, Russia, in the year 1870 

 and has since that become pretty widely 

 distributed. The merits of this apple 

 may be summed up under the following 

 three heads : 



(1) Hardiness — In this respect it is 

 fully equal to the Duchess of Olden- 

 burgh, and it is claimed that it will 

 survive temperature of 45° below zero 

 without freezing. It was on account 

 of this quality that the Frxiit Growers' 

 Association of Ontario included it in 



their premium list, and as it bears when 

 quite young we hope soon to have the 

 testimony of our readers in confirmation 

 of its previous reputation. 



(2) Earliness — Of all our early apples 

 this promises to be the best shipper and 

 the most renumerative. Previous to 

 the ripening of theiRed Astracan aad 

 the Duchess of Oldenburgh we have no 

 apple of extraordinary beauty either for 

 the table or market ; but in the Yellow 

 Transparent we hope to find the gap 

 worthily filled. No other has such deli- 

 cate waxen beauty, while in flavor it 

 comes little behind the well-known 

 Early Harvest. It may be gathered 

 any time in August, or be left to hang 

 into the month of September, all the 

 time improving in beauty. 



(3) Freedom from Spot — And herein 

 lies of its great merits. The 



PLAQUE OF THE APPLE SPOT 



is spreading through our country. Scien- 

 tists claim that it is a species of fungus. 



