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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



FULL REPORTS FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. 



PROM the following reports sent in by prominent fruit growers in vari- 

 ous sections, a very fair estimate of the state of the fruit crop in 

 Ontario may be made. As may be seen from our market reports, 

 prices for fruit, especially for apples, rule unusually high already, and since 

 the crop is so short, not only in Ontario, but also all through the United 

 Stages and in Europe, an apple famine may be expected during the coming 

 winter. 



WELLINGTON. 



Mr. James Goldie, of Guelph, writes : 

 The crop of apples in this vicinity will be 

 much below an average ; most of the trees 

 have suffered from the prevailing blight or 

 fungus on the leaves, and the fruit in most 

 cases is badly spotted. Some varieties will 

 have fair crops, but there will be few apples 

 fit for shipment from this district. The 

 trees, where in grass, have suffered much 

 from the excessive heat and drought, and 

 the fruit in consequence will be small. 



Duchess of Oldenburg.— \n nearly all cases 

 this variety has usual has proved to be one 

 of the most reliable croppers. The trees are 

 well loaded with nice bright fruit. 



Golden Russet, Maiden's Blush, King and 

 Alexander are in most cases giving a moder- 

 ate crop, but generally the fruit will be 

 small. Maiden's Blush seems to be one of 

 the best varieties here. Pears generally will 

 be about an average crop ; not many grown 

 and, as far as I know, no large orchards of 

 them. 



Plums suffered so much from Black 

 Knot a few years ago that not many trees 

 were left. This disease has not been so se- 

 vere of late, and what trees remain are well 

 loaded ; nearly all varieties are up to an 

 average. 



i.Grapes zxe not much grown here; very 

 few kinds ripen their fruit, but what are 

 grown show fairly well. 



WATERLOO. 



Mr. Simon Roy, of Berlin, writes : 

 In reply to your enquiries on postal card of 

 nth inst., I beg to submit the following 

 answers, viz : — 



In Apples the crop here is much below the 

 average, and if it were not for the Russian 

 varieties, which have yielded to their fullest 

 capacity, apples would be a rare delicacy. 



The Duchess is full, and so are the foUow- 

 ng Russians, viz: — Tetofski, Red Astra- 



chan, Alexander, Yellow Transparent, Duke 

 Constantine ; other varieties as follows ; — 

 Blenheim Orange, two-fifths crop ; Bald- 

 win, two-fifths crop ; Keswick Codlin, 

 one-half crop ; American Golden Russet, 

 two-thirds crop ; Maiden's Blush, full crop ; 

 Haas (looks like Russian variety), one-half 

 crop ; Northern Spy, one-third crop. 



The above are all the varieties of any con- 

 sequence in a collection of some forty. The 

 remnant varieties not named have only a 

 few on each tree. 



Pears. — Barlett, full crop ; Seckel, full 

 crop ; Louise Bonne, one-half crop. Out of a 

 collection of some twenty varieties, those 

 stated are the only ones that are worthy of 

 notice. 



Plums. — All varieties in cultivation in this 

 neighborhood, with exception of the wild 

 varieties, are all well laden. My collection 

 includes some fifteen varieties, some of which 

 are my own seedlings. 



HALTON, 



Mr. G. E. Fisher, of Freeman, writes : 

 I have taken time to make considerable 

 enquiry respecting the questions asked on 

 your card, with the following result : — 



Young trees have generally much less 

 fruit than old trees. Spy, 50 per cent, 

 fair size ; Greening, 25 per cent, fair size ; 

 Russet, 25 per cent, small; Cranberry, 50 

 per cent, good ; Talman Sweet, 50 per cent, 

 small ; Ribston, 25 per cent, good ; Snow, 

 plenty of fruit, small, scabby ; Barlett, 75 

 per cent, not first-class ; F. Beauty, 25 per 

 cent, scabby ; B. Lucrative, 75 per cent, fair; 

 L. Bonne, 50 per cent, fair ; Duchess, 25 

 per cent, good ; Anjou, 75 per cent, good ; 

 Bradshaw, 75 per cent, good ; Lombard, 75 

 per cent, good ; S. Orleans, 25 per cent, 

 good ; Yellow Egg, 50 per cent, good ; Du- 

 anes Purple, 25 per cent, good ; Imp. Gage, 

 25 per cent. good. All varieties of grapes 

 heavily loaded and doing well. 



