THE CANADIAN IIOIITICULTUKIST. 



averaging from eight hundred to a thousand feet in height. Berguudy 

 is iu the interior of the country, far removed from the ameliorating 

 iniiuence of the ocean. If, therefore, wines of the finest, qualities can 

 be* produced there in latitude 47°, and at such an elevation above the 

 sea level, why may not grapes be grown successfully in any part of 

 Ontario ? 



Wlien I read tliat in the neighborhood of Lindsay, and in the 

 County of Glengarry, the Snow Apple is scarcely hardy enough to 

 maintain itself in a healthy condition, and that in the Ottawa Valley 

 anything less hardy than a crab cannot be depended on, I am inclined 

 to believe that it requires something more than the severity of the 

 climate as experienced in those localities to render so many of our 

 hardiest varieties of apples unproductive or unreliable. The Snow 

 Apple is of course known to succeed in localities where the climate 

 must be ({uite as severe as in Lindsay ; and it is certain that it grows 

 here, in about the .same latitude, without showing any signs of 

 tenderness. 



In the Canadian Horticulturist for March, 1879, H. McLatchie, 

 of Templeton, says, "Fameuse wood is affected by frost, as is also Eed 

 Astracan, Alexander, and Talman Sweet." Tlios. Beall, of Lindsay, is 

 reported as saying, "We can only grow the more hardy varieties, the 

 Baldwin, and even the Snow, cannot be successfully grown." Surely 

 the mercury does not freeze at Lindsay, even if it does at Templeton. 



I have been looking over a most melancholy report from Glengarry, 

 in our Annual for 1873, wherein very little encouragement is given 

 for planting fruit trees, as although formerly trees did well in that 

 section, they have during the last six years nearly all failed. It really 

 cannot be so much colder there than in other localities where trees 

 succeed without difficulty. But perhaps the explanation may be found 

 in the remarks of one unsuccessful grower, viz: " Young trees all die 

 in about two years; I suppose when they reaxih clay!" I think reaching 

 the clay has a great deal to do with it A writer from Pictou, in the 

 same Annual, expresses his belief that "the dry summers are as 

 detrimental to our trees as the cold winters, because i>enetrating and 

 drying up every particle of moisture to the ends of the roots weakens 

 the trees, and the cold winters finish them." Jas. Dougall, of Windsor, 

 expresses a similar opinion. My own view is not that the clay does 

 the trees any injury, unless it lias a wet bottom, or that tliey will not 



