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CANADA RED. 



SiK, — 1 send you by mail a sample of an apple which is grown at Hudson, on thf 

 ()ttaw;i river, and would ask you to name it. Out of an orchard planted at Mount Victoria 

 at Hudson, i^ue., some thirty-tliree years ago, about IfiO or jOO only survive. Of thes..- 

 thirty or forty of this variety have lived and seem to do remarkaltly well. Tliey are " the 

 survival of the fittest," and must he well woithy of cultivation in this part of Canada. I 

 know for a fact the Mount Victoria orchard has been much neglected since the deatii of the 

 late Mr. Matthews, some twenty years aj^'o, owing to a succession of tenants. The present 

 tenant says he has taken si.\ barrels of apples from one tree, nearly all first (|uality. I 

 have shown specimens to several dealers in western fruit, and some say that it is the 

 Canada Red, others that it is not. The (|uality of tiic fruit is good and its keeping ijuality 

 e.xcellent. Locally the apple has been called the Red .Spitzenburg. 



R. W. Shepherd, Jr., Montreal, Que. 



This apple is without doubt the Canada Red, an excellent apple for com- 

 mercial purposes, where sufficiently productive. Larger apples are, however, 

 more sought for. 



THE SALLY BROWN APPLE. 



Sir, — The sample I send you is a seedling of the Duchess, grown by a lady here of 

 the same name. This is its first year in Ijearing, nine years from seed. The tree is a close 

 upright grower with smallish sharplj- cerrated leaves, absolutely free from down on the 

 under side. The tree, about one inch through, had twelve to fifteen apples this, the first 

 year. The sample was picked on the loth of September and has had rough usage, having 

 fallen from my hand to the floor twice. I have not tasted it, but think it is about ripe 

 now. 



J. P. CocKBf RN, Gravtnhurst. 



This apple is of the Duchess style, but later in maturing, making it valuable. 



It is now October 27th, little past its best but evidently is of good quality? 



equally attractive with the Duchess. 



THE BRITISH COLUMBIAN. 



Sin, — I send you a sample of an apple for identification. In my opinion it resembles 

 the Canada Reinette, but the producer claims that he planted the seeds some thirty years 

 ago, and could take his oath to the fact that this tree is a production from that seed. The 

 tree is a very strong and healthy grower, with large thick, glossy leaves, and has borne 

 extraordinarily heavy crops of fine fruit every year for the last twenty years or over, some 

 years yielding thirty bushels of marketable fruit. At the desire of the originator, we have 

 named it the " British Columbian." 



G. W. Henkv, Port Hammond, B. C. 



The apple sent us by our friend in British Columbia corresponds very 

 closely with Downing's description of the Canada Reinette. It is of an immense 

 size, reaching No. 10 of our scale for apples, as given in the October number. 

 It is not so flat an apple as the Canada Reinette, being considerably longer in 

 proportion from the calyx to the basin, and this, if a constant characteristic, may 

 be sufficient to entitle it to a separate name. In our next nimiber we will give 

 a drawing and description of tlie Canada Reinette. 



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