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obtained until after a lapse of series of years, and, therefore, it is not necessar) 

 for our readers to report to us concerning plants or trees that have been sent out 

 within the last year or two. But we would be very glad to hear, at any time, 

 reports of those plants which have been tested long enough to give some reliable 

 results. Previous to the year 1881, the following varieties were sent out for test- 

 ing : In 1875, Swazie Pomme Grise apple ; 1876, Glass Seedling plum ; 1877, 

 Goodale pear ; 1878, Burnet grape ; 1879, Ontario apple; 1880, Saunder's New 

 Hybrid raspberry. These have been tested in various parts of the country for 

 nearly ten years, and reports concerning them will be of considerable value. We, 

 therefore, ask from the readers of the journal, who have received these varieties, 

 or have otherwise tested them, to send a report as early as possible, to the editor 

 of this journal, in order that the results may be tabulated and made public at 

 anv early date. 



^ ©peij Lett^ps. % 



Sir, — We have a copy of your journal for October, and note the comment you have 

 made on the Early Ohio grape. We notice that in copying our letter you have made an 

 error which makes quite a ditferent meaning to it. Vou say, " It is nearly as hardy as the 

 Concord," while our letter read, " \t\a fully as hardy as the Concord."' The facts of the 

 case are, that during a hard winter, in which nearly all of the buds on a Concord vineyard 

 were severely injured, the buds on an Early Ohio vineyard by its side were not injured in 

 the least. 



Yours trulj', 



C. S. CiRTiCE Co., Portland, S. Y. 



A CORRECTION. 



.Sir, — In your article of last month, by mistake, the style of the Fonthill Nursery firm 

 was made to read Wellington & Stone's Nursery. The style of the firm should be ^Iorris, 

 Stone A, Wellington. The nursery is owned by Mr. Eilward Morris, of Fonthill, and Mr. 

 W. E. Wellington, of Toronto, Mr. Wellington attending to sale of stock and Mr. .Morris 

 giving his personal supervision to the growing of stock. Much of the success of the firm 

 has been the result of the able and careful management of Mr. Morris, who is a thorough 

 practical horticulturist and propagator of nursery stock. 



W. Vj. \Vkli.in(;ton, Toronto. 



THE CAROLINE RASPBERR\' IX QUEBEC. 



Sir. — I observed in "Notes and Comments " in your .lauuary number a reference to 

 tliis from the (Jeneva Station, as being a raspberry of "su))erb flavor," while the opinion 

 you gave was that it was of "exceedingly poor (juality." Being the first to test it for 

 adai)tability for the Province of Quebec, I may say that it occupies the place amongst rasp- 

 berries that the Wilson does amongst strawberries, except that it is too soft for a market 

 berry. The Caroline originated at New Rochelle, N. Y., the home of the once famous 

 Lawton Blackberry, and it was introduced by tlie Carpenters, a nursery firm of that 

 place in 187S ; they also originated the New Rochelle black raspberry, which was not suc- 

 cessful up here. They claimed the Caroline to be a hybrid of lirinckle's Orange, but if so. 



