16G THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUEIST. 



sul)j"ect Avere made by the St. Catharines Journal in its issue of the 

 eighth of October, which are well worthy of the earnest and careful 

 the attention of fruit growers of Canada. We take the liberty of 

 'quoting some of them and of calling attention to them, lor they are 

 replete with sound M'isdom. The writer says that " none but the very 

 l)est varieties should be cultivated, and they are all comprised within 

 a dozen sorts." We desire most particularly to emphasize the latter 

 part of this remark, within a dozen sorts ; j^es, and within half a dozen 

 sorts would have been yet more wisely said. There is no error more 

 common, especially among orchard planters, than that of planting too 

 many sorts. Why plant trees whose fruit will bring but ten shillings 

 per barrel, when there are other sorts equally as productive, healthy 

 -and vigorous whose fruit will ^ bring fifteen, eighteen and twenty 

 shillings per barrel ? A survey of sorts and prices w-ill show at once 

 that in planting an orchard with an eye to the European market it 

 would be very unwise to plant Greenings or Swaars, which will bring 

 only nine to fourteen shillings per barrel. If the soil and aspect be 

 favorable to the production of Eibston Pippins this variety should be 

 one of the half dozen, for the tree is very hardy healthy and vigorous, 

 an early and abundant bearer, the fruit uniform in size, free from 

 blemishes, always in demand in the English market, and liringing, as 

 we have seen, from fourteen to thirty shillings sterling per barrel, 

 which is about equivalent to the handsome figure of from tliree dollars 

 and a half to seven dollars and a half per barrel. This variety in the 

 climate of the County of Lincoln ripens in advance of the winter sorts, 

 and therefore in sucii places should be harvested earlier and sent 

 forward by steamer. 



Another of our half dozen sorts is the Golden Russet, which is also 

 a very hardy, healthy and vigorous tree, comes soon into bearing, 

 yields large crops of very uniform, medium sized apples, and sell now 

 in the Liverpool market for from sixteen to twenty-three shillings 

 sterling per barrel. The third sort is the Pomme Grise, which is also 

 hardy and productive, the fruit being never very large, but of a very 

 €ven size. It may be of value to some of our intending planters if we 

 pause just here to say that large apples «■!;■ not as highly esteemed in 

 the English market as small. The contrary seems to be the rule in 

 many of the markets on this continent. Mr. Cochrane remarks in his 

 apple circular of October ninth, " small, handsome fruifis preferred to 



