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and while still young, bore apples on limbs turned down, near the ground. 

 I send you a sample of the fruit which I would like described." The apple 

 is a small, yellowish skinned, fall apple, of fairly good flavor, but inclined 

 to spot. As a fruit, therefore, it does not merit a full description, having no 

 particular value. 



Renaud's Seedling Apple : — 



Sir, — I send you by to-day's mail four specimen apples, which, I trust, will reach you 

 safely in due time. The tree from which they were gathered to-day is a chance seedling on 

 the farm of my neighbor, Mrs. Bte. Renaud, and is probably about eighteen or twenty years 

 old, vigorous and healthy, but not large. Six bushels of fruit were picked to-day, and I 

 should say fully equal to half that quantity had lately fallen, owing to high winds. The 

 fruit is at its best after the month of March, and keeps till July. The tree is a heavy bearer 

 three years out of four. The two large specimens sent are from the original tree, the two small 

 ones are from a top graft on Hyslop crab. The difference in size is remarkable. — Robert 

 Hamilton, Grenville, P.Q. 



Fig. 75. — Section of Renaud's Seedling. 



This apple well merits description on account of four points of excellence, 

 viz., size, beauty, productiveness and hardiness. Grenville is about north latitude 

 45 /^, or on a line with the Parry Sound District, and while we have for this 

 parallel hardy summer and fall apples, we have scarcely any hardy winter apples 

 worth recommending, except the Wealthy, which is not a long keeper. 



The difference between the sample grown on the crab stock and that grown 

 on the ordinary apple stock is most marked the former being only about 2 ^ 

 inches in diameter and the latter about 3^ inches, thus showing plainly how great 

 the influence is of the stock upon the scion with respect to size. The color of 

 the crab-grown samples is much deeper red than that of the other. The apple 

 may be described as follows : — Size, large ; form, roundish, with three or four 



