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This is the most important cherry in 

 all Russia. It is named the Vladimir 

 because in that district its culture has 

 attained enormous proportions, and it is 

 shipped away to market by the car load. 



It is very hardy and bears fruit even 

 where grown a neglected fashion. The 

 tree is dwai'f in habit, indeed rather a 

 bush than a tree, some of tbem being 

 of weeping, others of ei-ect habit. 



The flesh of the cherry is a deep pur- 

 plish red color, and the skin reddish 

 black, and loses its acidity when fully 

 ripe, See Report for 1883 p. 224. 



15. Wilson Junior Blackberry. — Have any 

 readers of the Horticulturist groion the 

 Wilson Junior Blackberry sufficiently to 

 know ivhetJier it is as good as recom- 

 mended, or not, I hardly think it equal 

 to the Snyder. 



W. C. Rkid, Enterprise, Ont. 



REPLIES TO PREVIOUS QUESTIONS. 



Stock and Scion. (9 vol. ix.) Dr. Hos- 

 kins of Vermont has collected consider- 

 able evidence in favor of the view that 

 the stock does sometimes effect the size 

 of the fruit grown upon the Scion. He 

 says in Vick's Magazine : ' ' Regarding 

 the effects of top-grafting apples into 

 crabs, a practice very common in North- 

 ern New Enofland and the Northwest, 

 there is no need of weighing much 

 evidence, since every extensive fruit- 

 grower and nurseryman in Minnesota, 

 Northern Iowa and Wisconsin has in 

 his grounds plenty of jiroof that very 

 marked changes are so frequent as to 

 cause growers frequently to say, when 

 shown a new apple thus grown, ' I can- 

 not say how near this comes to the 

 original in size, color or taste, for it was 

 grown top-grafted in a crab tree.' * 

 * * But this is not to say that top- 

 grafts in crab trees never produce fi-uit 

 true to type, for they frequently do, 

 and this irrespective of the chai'acter or 

 the wood union at the 2)oint of inserting 

 the Scion. 1 have learned by experi- 



ence that some of the crabs make pretty 

 good stock, at least for some kinds of 

 large apples to be gro^vn upon ; but 

 which will, and which will not, can 

 only l)e determined by expei'ience." 



In the last report of the F.G.A. of 

 Nova Scotia this very interesting sub- 

 ject is ably dealt with by Prof. Hind, 

 who inclines to the opinion that a scion 

 grafted upon a slower growing stock 

 will be likely to produce larger fruit 

 than under other conditions, and also, 

 that the time of ripening of the fruit is 

 affected by the halaits of the stock. We 

 hope soon to be favored with the results 

 of further experiment in this direction. 



Rust on Strawberry Leaves. (13, vol. ix.) 

 Prof. J. C. Arthur of the New York 

 Agricultural Station writes : " The 

 strawberry leaf which you enclosed is 

 affected by Ramidaria Tulasnei, a com- 

 mon fungus growing upon strawberry 

 leaves eveiywhei'e. It is said to be 

 kept somewhat in check by burning the 

 leaves off from the beds after fruiting. 



Greenhouse and Heating. (11, vol. ix.) 

 In order to answer this question still 

 fai'ther we wrote Messrs. Hitchings & 

 Co., 233 Mercer street, New York City, 

 asking the favor of the cut shown be- 

 low representing a complete and effici- 

 ent heater, designed expressly for heat- 

 ing small conservatories such as are 

 frequently attached to dwelling houses. 



These heaters are managed with as 

 little ti'ouble as an ordinary self-feeding 

 coal stove. The illustration represents 

 a small conservatory 10x20 ft. attached 

 to the dwelling. The heater is shown 

 in the cellar under the conservatory 

 with two 1| inch pipes rising from it 

 through the floor, and connecting with 

 four 4-inch heating pipes which jjass 

 ai'ound the three exposed sides of the 

 conservatory, and terminate in an ex- 

 pansion tank shown at the light hand 

 corner. If it is impracticable to sink 

 such #pit, it can be arranged to have 



