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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



GARDEN AND ORCHARD. 



AN AMATEURS EXPERIENCE. 



OR over twenty years the writer of tliese rambling notes has 

 been a member of the Fruit Orowers' Association. 

 During that period the Annual Reports issued by the 

 Society, Beadle's Fruity Flower and Kitchen Gardener, 

 and later on the Canadian Horticulturist, coupled 

 with a number of nurserymen's illustrated and descrip- 

 tive catalogues, became valuable aids in developing a 

 taste for floral and horticultural surroundings. Like the most of new beginners 

 mv principal fault arose from going in for too many varieties, and it goes without 

 saying that my ventures with the " latest " were not always crowned with success. 

 Failures there have been — many of them in that line — still these rumors only 

 served to strengthen the determination to succeed, exercise greater caution in 

 my selections, and never to waver in a proper appreciation of what is left of the 

 hardy, good and true. 



Apples. — There are about forty different kinds in my orchard and garden. 

 After studying the matter thoughtfully, I have come to the conclusion that the 

 following, in the order named, are hard to beat in this section : Summer — Red 

 Astrachan, Yellow Transparent, Early Strawberry, and Benoni. Autumn— 

 Duchess of Oldenburg (the queen of apples in its season). Red Beitigheimer, 

 St. Lawrence, Alexander, Fall Pippin, Maiden's Blush, Kentish Fillbasket, and 

 Keswick Codlin. Winter — Blenheim Orange, Ontario, King of Tompkins, 

 American Golden Russet, Ribston, Wealthy, Hubbardson's Nonsuch, Northern 

 Spy, Pewaukee, Baldwin, Peck's Pleasant, and Grimes' Golden. Early Harvest 

 and Fameuse spot badly. The former was cut down last fall ; the latter, along 

 with Early Joe, Col vert, i'omme Grise, and several others, will be converted by 

 grafting into Blenheims. 



Tetofskys, with the exception of one specimen tree, I topworked with l^aid- 

 wins. Gravenstein, Greening, Swaar, Wagener, and Spitzenburg are too tender 

 for these parts. Ben Davis and Hawthornden are great croppers, but the fruit 

 is not much in demand. Chenango Strawberry, Mother, Swazie P. Grise, and 

 Yellow lielleflower are home favorites in their respective seasons, though, as a 

 rule, poor market sorts. Grand Sultan and Princess Louise have not fruited 

 with me yet. Hyslop and Transcendant Crabs make splendid cider. 



Next in order come the Pears. At one time my list called for twenty-three 

 varieties ; nearly one-half of which, like the " Flowers o' the Forest,'" are a' wede 

 away. The remainder are placed according to merit : Clapp's Favorite, Bartlctt 



