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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



CHERRIES AND WINTER PEARS 

 FOR HOME USE. 



i6. Sir, — Would you please give me the 

 names of two winter pears which you would 

 recommend for home use, and the four best 

 varieties of cherries for home use or market. 

 — C.C.B., Tapleytown, Ont. 



Of the Heart cherries, we would recom- 

 mend the following four as most excellent- 

 (White) George Wood and Elton ; (black) 

 Knight s Early Black and Black Tartarian. 



Of winter pears, none can surpass, for 

 home use, the Lawrence, and the Beurre 

 d'Anjou. 



THE RICHARDIA ALBO-MACULATA 

 (SPOTTED CALLA.) 



17. Sir, — Please give us some information 

 about the cultivation of the Spotted Calla, 

 offered in the list, as we shall not get it 

 until the season of growth ought to be 

 nearly over, and, if kept growing all summer, 

 I am afraid it will not flower next winter. — 

 A. J. C, Listowel. 



The variegated Calla, unlike the ordinary 

 Calla (Richardia ^thiopica), is a summer, 

 bloomer and rests in the winter season. The 

 chief requisites for success are plenty of water 

 in the growing season, and good rich soil 

 which may be made of a compost of good 

 oam and cow manure in equal parts. 



BUYING NEW VARIETIES FOR THE 

 ORCHARD. 



18. I WAS thinking of planting out an orchard 

 this spring, and as you are the Secretary of 

 the (Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, I 

 take the liberty to ask you to name the best 

 kinds to plant for the English market. The 

 Brown Bros., of Rochester, recommend 

 Grimes' Golden, Longfield, Belle deBoskoop, 

 Wealthy Salome, Duchess and Mann, as 

 they are iron-clads. Are they better than 

 our common kinds to grow for the English 

 market.— A. J. Kelley, Talbotville. 



We would advise you to "go slow" with 

 those new varieties. The Duchess is one of 

 the finest summer apples you can plant, and 

 the Wealthy one of the finest early winter 

 apples, but neither are well adapted for dis- 

 tant shipments. If they can be carried in 

 good condition they will sell well. Grimes' 

 Golden is a good apple, and so is Mann ; the 

 latter is very productive, but it drops rather 

 easily and its dull green color is against it. 



Much is expected of the others, but probably 

 not a single barrel of Longfield, Belle de Bos- 

 koop or Salpme, has yet been sold in the 

 English market. We would advise you to try 

 them; but we would advise you to plant 

 principally of those varieties which have been 

 tested, and which our market reports show 

 bring the best prices in England. You, in 

 West Elgin, surely, need not be restricted to 

 ironclads, as you are in the region of the 

 Baldwin, Spy and King. 



WORMS IN EARTH ABOUT CALLA 

 LILIES. 



19. I SENDyou sample of some small worms 

 which are very abundant in the earth about 

 the roots of my Calla lilies. Can you tell 

 me how to get rid of them ? 



Reply by Prof. James Fletcher, Experimental Farm. 

 Ottawa. 



The box containing larvae, which you had 

 found in pots where Calla lilies were being 

 grown, arrived all right and contained one 

 dead dipterous larvse, probably a Sciara, and 

 two young earth worms, Lumbricus ; these 

 are both alive. They can be told from the 

 Sciara under the microscope by their setae 

 when fresh from the eggs, they are quite 

 white and resemble the Sciara, larvae some- 

 what. I should suggest your trying watering 

 your plants with some soot and water (soot 

 from soft coal), this can do no harm to the 

 plants and kills most insects, I have been 

 trying experiments with carbolic acid, but 

 find them unsatisfactory. 



THE SASKATOON BERRY. 



20. A DELEGATE to the meeting of the Min- 

 nesota State Horticultural Society from Man- 

 itoba, in speaking of the native fruits of that 

 region, mentioned one known there as the 

 Saskatoon berry I think he said it was an 

 early summer fruit produced upon a shrub. 

 Can you inform me what it is ? Its botani- 

 cal name? Is it some fruit limited to that 

 region, or is it a variety of what is known 

 here as the Juneberry ? — J. S. H., La Cres- 

 cent, Minn. 



The Saskatoon berry referred to, is a dwarf 

 Juneberry, known botanically as ^' Ante, 

 lanchier oblongifolia." It is one of the best 

 varieties known for culture for fruit, as well 

 as for ornament. For this latter purpose it 

 was highly recommended by Prof. Fletcher, 



