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written about in some American journals, 

 and it would seem thai the hickory nut, the 

 walnut and the chestnut can be grown with 

 greater profit in some places than fruits. 

 Of course the length of time required for the 

 trees to reach a profitable bearing age is the 

 great obstacle, but are there not acres of 

 land on almost every farm, *hat could be 

 easily spared for nut trees, and could not the 

 owner in this way have an additional pro- 

 spect of ultimate profit. 



We are just in receipt of the following 

 letter from Mr. E. Wardroper, Pelee Island, 

 who has evidently had good success in 

 raising the filbert, or hazel nut, in that 

 section. 



" Sir, — I forward you by this mail a can 

 of nuts, called the Kentish Cob iVut. The 



seeds were sent out from England, and were 

 planted years ago. We have all sizes, that 

 bear regularly. They are not injured by 

 fros', the cold here seldom going more than 

 ten or fifteen degrees below zero. They are 

 easily propagated either from seeds or 

 suckers." 



The nuts are a fine sample, and surely 

 would be a source of great profit, if grown 

 on a large scale for market. 



There are in Canada, two varieties of the 

 Hazel-nut, which are natives, viz : Corylus 

 Americana, and C. rostrata, but neither of 

 these seem to fruit freely enough to be very 

 profitable and the nuts are small. We 

 should be pleased to hear further from our 

 correspondent as to average yield per tree, 

 etc. 



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QUINCES FOR THE ORCHARD. 



q8. Sir, — I am thinking of planting out 

 about five acres of quinces ; I have been told 

 that the seedling quinces used by nursery- 

 men for budding bear very good fruit. They 

 are much cheaper than other varieties, being 

 offered me for $15.00 per thousand. — Geo. 

 J.Jones, Ruthven, Ont. 



We would not advise our correspondent to 

 buy the Angers quince stock, which nursery- 

 men use for budding dwarf pears upon- 

 to plant in an orchard for fruit bearing^ 

 True, it is a productive variety, and the 

 fruit is a good keeper, but it is small and 

 it is not as good a cooker, as good quality, 

 nor as fine looking as some other varietes. No 

 doubt it could be grown with profit, just as 

 an inferior variety of grape or apple, but we 

 think it always pays to grow only the best, 

 especially since so many quinces are now- 

 coming into our markets. 



We have grown the Orange Quince for mar- 

 ket for many years and find it a most satis- 

 factory variety. It is large, roundish, and of 

 a bright golden yellow color, and very pro- 

 ductive. There is a seedling of the Orange 

 that is a little larger, and in other respects 

 very similar, called Rea^s Seedling. The 

 Champion is a newer variety, and one which 

 has commended itself to us as being larger 

 than the Orange, and equally good in quality. 

 It appears to be very productive also and 



the fruit is a longer keeper. These are the 

 best tested varieties of quinces, and in a 

 large plantation, it might be well to have a 

 selection of each. 



WOOD ASHES FOR SCAB. 



99. Sir, — Do you think that wood ashes 

 are a good preventive of the apple scab .■' 

 My Fameuse used to be badly affected by it, 

 but since I applied wood ashes not ten per 

 cent are affected. — W.H.W. 



Wood ashes are an excellent fertilizer for 

 the apple tree, and will cause a healthy 

 growth of both wood and fruit, and in this 

 way may help somewhat in enabling the tree 

 to resist the fungus, but it can have no direct 

 action as a preventive of the scab in any 

 other way. We have tried them faithfully 

 on the same variety, year after year, and the 

 fruit is still as badly scabbed as ever. Our 

 hopes are now directed to the copper 

 solutions, as the most probable means of 

 securing clean fruit. 



THE ERIE BLACKBERRY. 



100. Sir, — Is the Erie blackberry hardy 

 and productive ? — A. S. Crosby, Compton 

 Que. 



We cannot answer for the hardiness of 

 the Erie for the province of Quebec, but 

 perhaps some of our readers in that province 



