The Canadian Horticulturist. rii 



THE BLENHEIM ORANOE APPLE. 



Sir, — I read with some surprise Mr. 'I\ H. Race's criticism of the Blenheim 

 Orange apple in the Horticulturist of March, for in the neighborhood of 

 Toronto it succeeds so well, and is one of the best and most profitable apples 

 grown here, and no other variety can command a higher price in the Toronto 

 retail market in its season. I have myself picked a crop of seven barrels from a 

 single tree, not counting the fallen ones, and know of another who gathered ten 

 barrels from a tree, part of which had previously l)een broken off by a storm. 

 Both these trees grew on a light soil with hard-pan sub-soil. Here they bear 

 well every second year, and are keeping good this winter up to the present time. 

 Toronto. Hlnrv R. Duke. 



Sir, — The Blenheim Orange has never been planted in this section (Durham 

 and Northumberland) as extensive)}- as it should be. A few trees, planted forty 

 or fifty years ago, are still vigorous, and bear fine crops of choice fruit every other 

 year, five or ten barrels to a tree, of shipping apples. They give fewer culls than 

 any other variety, and always command a fine price. Mr. Chas. Young, of this, 

 town, has a tree which gave eight barrels last season, and has yielded as many as. 

 eleven barrels of shipping apples. A tree in Seymour, two miles west of Camp- 

 bellford, yielded, one season, fifteen barrels. It stands on the old Wm. Clark 

 farm, now occupied by Mr. A. Huyck. 



Bowmanville. J. Chaplin. 



Sir,— Regarding your enquiry about Blenheim Orange apple, would say I 



have been buying and packing apples quite extensively for six years — put up 



about ii,ooo barrels the past season. I find the Blenheim Orange a heavy 



' bearer every other year ; think the trees of that variety in this county (Lambton ) 



yield as many barrels per tree as almost any other, and these of extra quality. 



Arkona. J. L. Hilborn. 



Dr. Hoskins, of Vermont, writes of the Blenheim Orange in following terms,, 

 in Orchard and Garden : " Now that Europe, and especially England, affords 

 to American orchardists so .satisfactory a market for choice apples, it would seem 

 well for them to consult the taste of their transatlantic customers in their plant- 

 ings. Few apples are more popular in England than the Blenheim Pippin, 

 which is as well known there, and as highly esteemed, as the Esopus Spitzenberg 

 is in America. It has been known in this country also for nearly a century, 

 and is not unfrequently seen upon our exhibition tables; but it has never become 

 prominent among our market apples. There is, however, good reason to believe 

 that it is a valuable apple, with a thrifty and hardy tree, and that when properly 

 grown, along our Northern border, in New England and New York, it would be 



