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OUR RUSSIAN EXCHANGE. 



Our readers will be interested in 

 knowing that the first box of stock 

 from Russia, for testing in Canada, 

 has just come to hand. It contains 

 fifty fine yearling trees of the Koslor 

 Morello Cherry, which was described 

 in volume xii, page 216; pits of a 

 new Seedhng Ostheim Cherry, sup- 

 erior to the old Ostheim, of a new 

 and valuable seedling black cherry, 

 called Niemetz, and of Ausjustin's 

 Seedling Apricot, a valuable Russian 

 variety. Forty of the trees we have 

 handed over to the Experimental 

 Farm for testing, and as soon as we 

 can secure them in sufficient quantity, 

 we will distribute them. Mr. Niemetz 

 writes that he could get no more at 

 present, as all that Mr. Mitschourine 

 had were bought by the government 

 for the inhabitants of Siberia. Surely 

 if this cherry will do for Siberia, it 

 should do for Manitoba. 



We are also in receipt of some 

 packets of the Russian Pea, described 

 on page 16, and should they prove 



valuable, they will be propagated and 

 distributed. We hope thus, in time, 

 to introduce into Canada, many use- 

 ful fruits, especially valuable for our 

 cold North. 



A NEW PEAR. 

 At our winter meeting last Decem- 

 ber, in Windsor, Mr. P. C. Dempsey, 

 of Trenton, exhibited a new pear of 

 his own growing, which, at this date, 

 January ist, is in prime condition for 

 eating. It is a cross between Duchess 

 de Bordeaux and Josephine de 

 Malines. The size of this pear is 

 above medium ; form, ob-ovate pyri- 

 form; color, yellow, with numerous 

 brown dots ; stem, about two inches 

 in length; flesh,yellow,coarse-grained, 

 firm, juicy, of an excellent aromatic 

 flavor. • 



Abraham's Oak is the name given 

 to an old oak at Mamre in Syria, 

 supposed to mark the spot where the 

 patriarch pitched his tent in the 

 desert. It is a venerable old tree, 



