46 THE CANADUN HORTICULTURIST, 



Minnesota, and Duchess of Oldenburg the only Eussian. There are 

 many other Russian sorts that have been imported into America and 

 iare offered for sale, more or less liardy, and many other American sorts 

 which are sold for Ironclads. 



(3.) Are they the best variety to plant here, in tlie Township of Osprey, County 

 of Grey ? 



The more hardy sorts of apple will doubtless thrive best in the 

 County of Grey, but it is hardly necessary to be confined to the Iron- 

 clad class. The Eed Astracan, St. Lawrence, Snov/ Apple, Mann 

 Apple, Keswic Codlin, Ben Davis, Grimes' Golden, Ribston Pippin, 

 Talman Sweet, and others of like hardiness, are surely able to endure 

 the climate of the Township of Osprey. Thus far these very hardy 

 varieties from Russia and elsewhere have not been as high flavored as 

 those named above. The new Russian and Ironclads are offered for 

 sale by the dealers in trees, at prices ranging from one dollar to two 

 dollars per tree, and they find'many purchasers. But wise men will 

 let them alone until they have been pronounced worthy of general 

 cultivation by the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario. It is the 

 business of this Association to disseminate information on these 

 subjects, and it is doing it by means of the Canadian Horticulturist 

 and the Annual Report, so that there is no need of our farmers buying 

 new fruit trees at high prices, only to be disappointed in the end. It 

 will be quite time enough for them to experiment when the price has 

 fallen to twenty-five cents per tree. If our farmers would all of them 

 become members and read the publications of the Association, they 

 would be saved much more than one dollar a year. 



(1.) What is the matter with our apples ; they are all decaying so eai'ly in the 

 season that when spring comes, we shall hardly have an apple to eat ? My Roxbury 

 Eussets that should keep until June or July are ripe now. 



This is a very general complaint. We believe that the very pro- 

 tracted warm, almost hot, weather of October caused the fruit to 

 mature prematurely, so that it was much riper when harvested than 

 we have known it to be for many years. 



(2.) What tree or plant will be distributed next spring to members by the 

 Association? 



It is the intention of the Directors to send plants of Wra. Saunders' 

 Hybrid Raspberry, which should have been sent in the spring of 1877, 

 but which they were unable to procure owing to the difficulty of 



