The Canadian Horticulturist. 



SOME VALUABLE NEW CANADIAN APPLES. 



By D. NicHOL, Cataraqui. 



EREWITH I send you samples of four kinds of apples grown in my 

 orchard. 



No. I is the " La Rue," which has already been described in 

 your journal. The twenty trees of it which I have bearing have proved to 



Fig. 2. — The La Rue, Drawn and Engraved Exact Size of Sample. 



be the most profitable of any kind I have tried, and I have thoroughly 

 tried almost every known variety. Large red apples are always in demand, 

 and sell readily at the highest price in our local markets. 



No. 2, which I have named the " Leeds," is a very excellent sweet 

 apple, from a seedling which, thirty-three years ago, I found growing on 

 the farm which belonged to the late Isaiah Grififin, in the township of 

 Yonge, county of Leeds. As a baking apple it is decidedly superior to the 

 Talman Sweet. On account of its large size it sells more readily and is 



