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where cherry growing is the industry o( the populati(;n. It is in the Province of 

 Vladimir, between Moscow and Nigni-novgorod, where the winter temperature 

 is about three degrees colder than the City of Quebec. The little trees only 

 grow three feet high. So extensively are the cherries cultivated that they are 

 shipped by the carload in all directions, and I am told that entire trains have 

 been loaded with this one product." 



The natural distribution of the wild representatives of both cla.sses, the 

 Hearts and Morellos, seems much the same, though the cultivated representa- 

 tives of the latter, have a much wider distribution in northern and eastern Europe 

 at the present time. This class seems to have had a greater climatic adapt- 

 ability than their tenderer relatives, the Hearts, and to have gradually worked 

 northward and eastward till they have become common roadside trees in Poland 

 and Central Russia. Before reaching this northern latitude they have become 

 however, specialized forms, differing materially from our west European types. 

 The west European Morellos, which in ordinary or average seasons have been 

 fairly successful south of the forty-third parallel, in the somewhat dry western 

 and middle States, and further north in the moister, though colder, portions of 

 Canada, have, in late years from one cause or another as in the west, injury 

 from winter and black knot, and bark bursting in the east and been dying so rapidly 

 and giving such poor returns, as to compel the thoughtful planter to look for 

 varieties more suited to the vicissitudes of our northern climates. 



Within a few years several varieties, as instances, Ostheim and Wragg, have 

 been brought into notice as having special qualifications in the way of hardiness 

 and adaptability to climate. As far as we can learn, these varieties have been 

 '• incidental seedlings from east P^urope importations, and to have inherited their 

 hardiness from typical varieties of those regions." The result of investigation 

 is that several importations followed, being special and personal selections made 

 by Prof. J. L. Budd, of the Iowa Agricultural College, and Mr. Charles Gibb, 

 of Abbotsford, (^ue., in 1883-4. These introductions comprise about forty vari- 

 eties. From five years of personal observation, and from reports received from 

 widely-separated sources, I am lead to believe that we shall find among them 

 many adapted to the more trying districts of (Quebec and Ontario, and the 

 milder portions of the North-West But should our success be only partial with 

 the originals, we can still use them as stepping stones to something better, by 

 means of crossing and selection, and this line of advance is taking a prominent 



place in the horticultural work of the farm. 



John ( "raI'.. 

 Experimental Fnni,, Otta^va. 



Hattie. Mamma .says that my canary's life just hangs by a thread. 

 SvMP.vTHETic Caller. — My, I do hope it is number 8, you know that is 

 awful strong. 



