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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



dered the last two or three pickings 

 rather hard to save. The 



OLD RELIABLE WILSON 



is still the best all round berry here, 

 although we have several other varie- 

 ties, viz.. Crescent, Sharpless, Man- 

 chester, Triomphe de Gand, etc. I 

 have also the Jessie, Jewel, Daniel 

 Boone, and Belmont; but have not 

 had them long enough to report as to 

 their good or bad qualities. 



RASPBERRIES 



were very fine the first of the season, 

 but were much injured t&ward the last, 

 by the continued hot, dry, weather of 

 July and August. I grow the Cuth- 

 bert red, and Gregg Black cap. The 

 Cuthbort is a fine berry, but just a 

 little too tender for our winters. We 

 want something a litcle hardier, as it 

 should be well sheltered and grown in a 

 place where the snow lies deep in winter, 



APPLES 



were not as good a crop as usual. 

 Though showing an abundance of blos- 

 soms, they yet failed to set much fruit. 

 This was more especially true of the 

 winter varieties (for the Astrachan 

 was better than it had been for 

 several years). The Duchess, though 

 the fruit was very fine, did not bear as 

 well as usual. Golden Russets, and in 

 fact all winter apples, are likely to be 

 scarce. There is one thing remarkable 

 about this season, and that is that, 

 although the crop was small and the 

 weather unusually dry, the apples 

 were the finest I have seen for sev- 

 eral years, and not a sign of the fun- 

 gus or scab on any of them, which 

 proves that the extent of this fungus 



growth is some way connected with the- 

 season, as iu the case of the rust in 

 wheat, but in what way I leave to- 

 scientific men to explain. The Codlin 

 Moth is getting worse with us every 

 year, causing a premature ripening and 

 dropping of the fruit. I think we 

 shall have to give them Paris green if 

 we are going to stop their ravages. 

 The varieties of apples most suitable to 

 our climate are, for summer : Duchess, 

 Astrachan and Yellow Transparent ;. 

 and for winter : Wealthy, Mann, 

 Golden Russet, Red Pound or Simcoe, 

 Pewaukee, and Spitzenburg. It is only 

 the hardy kinds that will succeed here. 

 But those that do succeed bear very 

 very tine specimens of fruit, and I be- 

 lieve that the farther north you can 

 succeed in growing them the finer the 

 fruit, and this applies to other fruits as 

 well as apples. I have been very 

 much interested in the reports of Mr. 

 A. A. Wright, of Renfrew. He seems 

 to have a pretty cold climate to con- 

 tend with, colder even than ours, and 

 his experience is valuable to us, for 

 any variety that Mr. Wright succeeds- 

 with will be sure to succeed with us in 

 Simcoe. This wa.s the best season for 



GRAPES 



I have yet experienced. I never saw 

 finer Concords than I had this year 

 of course my vines are young, well 

 manured, and pruned ; all the varieties- 

 I have ripened perfectly. I have 

 Moore's Early, Rodger's No. 3 and 19, 

 Worden, Early Victor, Vergennes,. 

 Prentiss, Champion, and Brighton. I 

 have also the famous Niagara, but fail 

 to see wherein it excels the Prentiss in 



