The Canadian Horticulturist. ioi 



REPO;.r O.V TRECS RIXKIVHI), 1875 TO 1S80, INCLUSIVE. 



X accordance with a retjuest on page 63, current number of 

 the Canadian Horticulturist, I subjoin a report on 

 the trees received by me from the Fruit (Growers' Asso- 

 ciation of Ontario, for the years mentioned, viz. : 



1H75. — Swazie Pomme Gris apple. The tree is 

 ahve yet ; I get a few apples from it every year. It is 

 not sufficientl} hard)', and cannot be recommended for cultivation in this dis- 

 trict. An unprofitable variety. 



1876. — Glass plum. Tree (^uite hardy, moderately productive, and fruit of 

 attractive appearance, which, although only second-rate in (quality, commands 

 first price in market. Can be profitably grown. 



1877. — Goodale pear. The tree lived several years, but never bore fruit. 

 Judging by this specimen, it is not suitable for cultivation here. 



1878. — Burnet grape vine. A remarkably vigorous grower, and quite hardy 

 but ripens its fruit too late. The fruit when ripe is, perhaps, the highest flavored 

 out-door grape grown in Ontario. It ripened thoroughly last year, and but fairly 

 well two or three seasons previously. It is, therefore, too late for profitable cul- 

 tivation. Those who cultivate grapes for their own use only, would do well to 

 have a few vines. 



1879. — Ontario apple. This tree was diseased when received. It bore a 

 few apples the second year, and has borne fruit more or less every year since. 

 Last year it produced a large crop and grew more healthy wood than for the past 

 five or six years. Young trees of this variety are doing very well, and scions 

 grafted on Talman Sweet and on Tetofsky have made wonderful growth for 

 several years, and are bearing well. This variety is at its best, and is most attrac- 

 tive in appearance, at about this season of the year. The color of the skin is 

 now a bright golden yellow, shaded and overlaid to the extent of about one-half 

 with the most brilliant carmine. It is, probably, one of the best of apples in 

 quality, and certainly the most profitable winter apple, grown in Central Ontario, 

 1880. — Saunders" New Hybrid raspberry. Was quite hardy; very prolific, 

 and excellent in quality, but the peculiar color of the fruit made it entirely 

 unsalable. Its cultivation, therefore, had to be abandoned. 



Thos. Beall. 

 Lindsay, March, i8g2. 



Poultry in the Garden. — Early in the season, the most useful birds in a 

 garden are young turkeys and young chickens, the former far the most useful. 

 Set the turkey eggs under a hen, and when they are hatched, remove the hen in 

 a coop to the garden, and feed her well. The turkeys will have the range of the 

 beds, and will destroy insects rapidly. Later in the season, grown up chickens 

 will do little harm by scratching. — Hort. Times. 



