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The tips, at least, of my Lombard 

 and Moore's Arctic plums are gone 

 this spring. The winter was very se- 

 vere. Yours, fee, W. H. Wtlie. 



Carleton Place, Ont. 



Use for Old Strawberry Baskets. 

 — Sir : Last year I planted out 1000 

 cabbage plants. " He that observeth 

 the wind shall not sow," so I set them 

 out when they were ready. The day 

 was bright, and before night they were 

 a long way off the perpendicvilar. I 

 had as many old strawberry baskets at 

 hand with which I covered them. My 

 plants in a few hours were started for 

 life, the baskets none the worse. Un- 

 less your readers fancy working in the 

 rain, they will find the plan a good one. 



J. C. 

 Aultsvile, April, 1887. 



Improving. — A Seaforth subscriber 

 writes : — Sir : I had little notion of be- 

 coming a subsci'iber this year, but I 

 have received five numbers, and I 

 think they are an improvement on last 

 year's. I get some useful hints in them 

 which makes them interesting. 



[This is a sample of many letters 

 which have been received. It is cer- 

 tainly the wish of the Directors to 

 make each volume of our Journal better 

 than its predecessor, until no Canadian 

 farmer or fruit grower can afibrd to do 

 without it.] 



FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 



The Editor Canadian Horticulturist. 



I was interested in a note on Farm- 

 ers^ Institutes in the May number, and 

 as it corresponds to views too often 

 expressed in essays and in print, I may 

 be excused for briefly referring to it. 

 The " notion " referred to is as follows, 

 that the so-called iineducated man is 

 practical, while the college professor is 

 theoretical. In this case the term theory 

 is often applied in the sense of reason, 

 words of a very different signification. 



No doubt some college professors deal 

 too much in theories, and some of the 

 other class are truly practical. I have 

 attended a very large number of gather- 

 ings where both of the classes above 

 named took an active part, and in my 

 judgment the college man is beaten out 

 of sight in the nvimber of theories offered 

 by the so-called practical man. 



W. J. BEAL. 

 Michigan Agricultural College, 

 lOth May, 1887. 



HARDY APPLES -A CORRECTION. 



The Editor Canadian Horticulturist. 



Dear Sir : My article from the Am. 

 Garden was quite incorrectly quoted 

 in the May Canadian Horticulturist. 

 In the fifth line " two " should be true. 

 Yellow Transparent and Oldenbui'gh 

 are true ironclads : while Shiawassee 

 Beauty is entirely distinct from the 

 Fall Queen — hai'dly any two apples 

 more so in all points. If Westfield 

 Seek-no-Further does not suit your 

 locality, I would strongly advise trial 

 of McClellan ; and also of Salome, a 

 newly introduced Illinois apple, hardy, 

 but not ironclad, and a very productive 

 and salable market fruit, which I 

 should prefer to the American Golden 

 Russet. Tinmouth is well worth plant- 

 ing as a choice family apple, and Nod- 

 head (Jewett's Fine Red) has few 

 superioi'S in its class of early winter 



apples. Yours truly, 



T. H. HOSKINS. 



Newport, Vt., May 11, 1887. 



[Note. — We regret the omission of 

 the word Haas after Shiawassee Beauty 

 on p. 101, which in the article referred 

 to is correctly given by Dr. Hoskins as 

 another name of the Fall Queen. The 

 apple has been largely sold in Canada 

 under the name of Haas. It is also 

 known as Gros Pommier, — Ed.] 



