330 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



The Haliburton Apple.— 



Sir, — We mail you herewith two apples, samples of an alleged seedling grown in the 

 Haliburton district and which in that section goes under the name of the " Haliburton." 

 Can you inform us if it is simply some old variety to which a new name has been attached ? 

 What is your idea of the apples as to quality, etc.? The tree is represented as very hardy 

 and bears heavily every year. — Cavers Bros, Gait, Out. 



This is no doubt a purely local apple, and appears to have some value 

 on account of its beauty of appearance. Prof. Saunders gives us the fol- 

 lowing description of it : — 



Haliburton, grown north of Peterboro, size medium or under, 2fx2^, 

 form oblate, color pale yellow, nearly obscured on the side exposed to the 

 sun by carmine red,. marked with splashes and streaks of a deeper hue. 

 Stalk short and moderatel}^ stout, set in a small but rather deep cavity, 

 calyx open with a very shallow smooth basin. Flesh fine grained, creamy 

 white and more or less tinged with pink, rather soft in texture, austere and 

 with an acid taste, with very little flavor, a pretty apple but of poor quality. 

 Ripe latter end of September. 



A Green Fameuse. — Mr. R. W. Shepherd, of Montreal, writes as fol- 

 lows regarding this seedling : — 



Sir, — I am sending you to-day, by parcel post, a box containing two specimens of a 

 Fameuse seedling apple. The original tree is growing on our farm at Como, Que., — must be 

 about 25 or 30 years old — and grew up where some old Fameuse trees formerly stood, but which 

 suc--umbed to the severe winter which killed off almost all the Fameuse orchards in this 

 province some thirty years ago. The tree is apparently quite hardy. Fruit is (as you will 

 see) larger than Fameuse, but not nearly so much colored, in fact only odd specimens have 

 any blush at all. This apple has been propagated by me to a very limited extent under the 

 name of Green Fameuse. When you taste it, you will find the true Fameuse texture of flesh 

 and flavor. I think the variety is worth propagating, being a heavy bearer, good size, excel- 

 lent quality, and very little, if any, given to spotting. The Green Fameuse having a tougher 

 skin than its parent, carries better and keeps longer. I shall be pleased to send you scions of 

 the variety if you think well of it, — R. W. Shepherd, Jr., Montreal, Oct. j>, i8go. 



We have received the samples in good order, and can vouch for the truth 

 of the statements above made with regard to this apple. The only fault 

 we see in it is its color, which, of course, is a serious one in an apple that 

 is chiefly wanted for dessert purposes. 



A Weeping Apple Tree. — Mr. Robert Moore, of Zurich, Ont., sends 

 to the Ontario Agricultural College, a photograph of a weeping apple tree, 

 which may possibly take the fancy of some people as an ornamental. We 

 cannot, however, see the advantage of a weeping tree of any kind except 

 for special situations because it is the very hardest form of trees to work into 

 a lawn with other trees ; and a tree must have something specially commend- 

 able to be desirable as a single specimen in a prominent location. An apple 

 tree would scarcely have enough beauty of foliage to be employed in this way, 

 and therefore we see little in this novelty, except that it is a curiosity. Mr. 

 Moore writes as follows : "I m^ail you a photograph of weeping apple tree 

 which I raised from seed. It grew among a lot of stocks for grafting pur- 

 poses. This one showed from the first that it was mclined to be a weeper, 



