8o The Canadian Horticulturist. 



However, for market, I would select the varieties in the following pro 

 portion for i,ooo vines: looWorden, 200 Concord, 100 Wilder, 200 Lindley, 

 200 Agawam, and 200 Niagara. 



Some may say, why are Delaware, Brighton, Salem, Moore's Early or 

 Pocklington not included. For the following reasons : Lindley will produce 

 more to the acre than Delaware, ripens at the some time and is more 

 salable ; it will produce as much as the Brighton, and improve by hanging 

 when fully ripe, while the Brighton fails in both color and flavor. 



The Lindley and Agawam fills the place of Salem in the market, are as 

 productive, and not as subject to mildew, or as liable to burst with rain. 

 Moore's Early can only be made to produce one-third as much as 

 Worden, and is not as good in flavor. Niagara fills the place of Pockling- 

 ton in the market and is more productive. 



Winona, Ont. M. PETTIT. 



PLUMS FOR MARKET 



A GOOD list of plums for market purposes, as also for shipping, are : 

 ^^r\ Lombard, German Prune, Washington, Yellow Egg, Imperial Gage^ 

 Reine Claude, Coe's Golden Drop, Quackenbos, Niagara, Smith's 

 Orleans, Duane's Purple, Pond's Seedling, Glass' Seedling, Bradshaw, 

 Lawson's Golden Gage, Gen. Hand, Victoria, French Prune. These for an 

 orchard of 500 or 1,000 trees, I would divide about equally. For an orchard 

 of 100 trees, I would plant as follows: Washington, Niagara, Lombard, 

 Glass' Seedling, Yellow Egg, Reine Claude, Coe's Golden Drop ; these being 

 very productive varieties for that number of trees, and the quality is good 

 enough for either table, cooking, or market. All of these I have found per- 

 fectly hardy and good bearers, good shippers, and selling at highest prices. 

 There are several plums claimed to be curculio proof, but I have found 

 none entirely free. There are some that seem more free than others from 

 curculio, such as Smith's Orleans, Columbia, Lombard. I find one of the 

 great secrets of profitable plum-growing is to plant the best kinds, give 

 them good cultivation and plenty of fertilizing material to keep good growth 

 in the trees ; good cultivation and fertilizers being an enemy to the destruc- 

 tive diseases as black knot and rot. Even the curculio dislikes cultivation, 

 grass and weeds being a hot-bed for the insect, while neglect of cultivation 

 is death to profitable plum culture. 



Winona, Ont. GEORGE CLINE. 



