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EARLY FAVORITE. 



Sir, — I send you a sample of a chance seedling of the Damson plum, which I have 

 named the Early Favorite. It was in good condition for using on the 25th of August, which 

 is very early for this section. This is the first year of bearing. The tree is a rapid grower ; 

 strong, straight limbs, with small leaves. 



W. A. Brownlee, Mount Forest, Ont. 



The samples are small, roundish, about an inch in diameter ; skin, dark 

 purple, covered with thick blue bloom ; flesh, melting, juicy, not very tart ; free 

 stone. Ripens last of August, in advance of the ordinary Damson. 



PLUMS FOR NAME. 



Sir, — I send you by parcel post three samples of plums grown in my father's garden 

 (Thos. Wilson, one of your subscribers). Could you give me the names in your next issue ? 

 No. 1 we consider our best plum ; two trees gave us twenty pounds this week. The trees 

 have been growing here for twelve years, and were purchased as Green Gage. No. "2 is 

 not quite ripe. It will, I think, give us twenty pounds. No. 3 is, I think, the Yellow 

 Egg, and three trees will have about forty pounds. No. 2 and 3 were brought from 

 Lachine twenty years ago. 



A. E. Wilson, Clarence, Ont. 



No. 3 is, as you suppose, the Yellow egg. On consultation with our neigh- 

 bor, Mr. G. W. Cline, we conclude that No. i. is Bingham, and No. 2. Denison's 

 Superb. 



FOREIGN PEARS. 



Sir, — Some time ago I wrote you I had imported some French pear, apple and plum 

 trees. Some of them are now bearing, and I send you three varieties of pears, viz., 

 (1) Marguerite Marillat ; (2) Chaumontal ; (3) Triumph de Vienne My garden of three- 

 quarters of an acre is half a mile from my house, so that 1 lose much of my fruit. A year 

 ago I imported Laxton's Noble strawberry. It is a grand fruit ; four, picked at one time, 

 weighed one-quarter of a pound. The flower is perfect, the plant is very productive, and 

 the fruit of good flavor. J. IX Roberts; Colour;/. 



It is certainly astonishing what interest may become centered in a small 

 garden. Our former President, Rev. R. Burnet, became an authority on pear 

 nomenclature, by the great number of varieties he grew on dwarf trees in his 

 garden. Mr. Roberts once sent us a fine collection of foreign varieties of apples 

 grown in his small garden. The results of his experiments will be interesting to our 

 Association. No. i above named is a beautiful pear, not mature enough to 

 pass judgment on its quality ; No. 2 lacks in quality, and is not juicy enough. 

 No. 3 has already been noticed in these pages. 



