(Lanabian 



IDorticulturiet 



Published at Toe\onto and Grimsby, Ont. 

 OFFICE ADDRESS— GRIMSBY, ONT. 



VOL. X.] 



SEPTEMBER, 1887. 



[No. 9. 



THE PEACH IN CANADA. 



OR the first time in three or four 

 years peach-growers in Ontario 

 are the happy possessors of a 

 fair crop of peaches. The early varie- 

 ties, such as Alexanders, Hale's Early, 

 Louise and Rivers are overloaded, 

 while the finer varieties, such as Early 

 Crawford, Old Mixon, &c., are about a 

 half-crop. 



But peach-growing in Canada is by 

 no means the important industry that 

 it was five or six years ago. Then 

 every choice piece of garden soil was 

 devoted to peach culture, and every 

 orchai-dist, along the southern shore of 

 Ontario and the eastern shore of Lake 

 Huron, had golden dreams of the profits 

 to he derived from this delicate fruit. 

 But, alas ! the mysterious Yellows 

 awakened us all to the unpleasant 

 reality of great disappointment, and 



our beautiful peach trees had to be 

 cut off and drawn out of the ground by 

 hundreds. Our growers are now turn- 

 ing their attention to the vineyard in 

 place of the peach orchard ; and very few 

 are giving the latter even reasonable 

 cultivation, so wholly disgusted are they 

 with the unsightly remains of what 

 was once the pride of their grounds. 



But this is a great mistake. The 

 sagacious orchardist will destroy the 

 affected trees as soon as they ai-e ob- 

 served, and in the proper time plant 

 young healthy ones in their places. He 

 will not plant more than he can culti- 

 vate, prune and fertilize in the best 

 and most approved manner, and thus 

 he will succeed in reaping eventually a 

 most satisfactory reward. 



As the time for cultivation of the 

 peach is now over for this season, we 



