352 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



profitable apple for putting up in small cases for a special export trade, providing 

 it bears out its present promise. It may be described as follows : 



Size, very large ; form, conical ; skin, yellowish, spattered and shaded with 

 very bright red on the sunny side ; stem, set in a moderately deep, even basin ; 

 flesh, yellowish white, somewhat inclined to water core, tender and of a pleasant 

 flavor. A good cooking apple. Season, October. 



Seedling Apples : — 



Sir, — I send you some seedling apples grown in this vicinity : — No. i is a seedling 

 of fall pippin. Fruited the eighth year. Came into full bearing the third year after. It 

 fruits every year. Is a good cooker and keeps until May or June. Becomes a very bright 

 yellow in the winter. No. 2 bears very early and heavily. A good cooker and keeps till 

 February. No. 3 came into bearing early. Bears a good crop every year Keeps till Feb- 

 ruary. No. 4 bore fruit crop sixth year from seed. Keeps all winter, becoming yellow.— 

 Thos. Beall, Lindsay. 



None of these apples seem to call for a description, unless possibly No. i. 

 Nos. 2, 3 and 4 are only suitable for cooking, and for this No. 4 is too small, 

 and 2 and 3 are inferior to varieties already in cultivation. 



No. I is under medium size, conical, with bright, clean golden-colored 

 skin, stem slender, half-inch in length, set in a deep, narrow cavity, calyx 

 closed in a medium sized wrinkled basin, flesh creamy white of good quality 

 and pleasant aromatic flavor. Probably a good winter dessert apple. 



That Weaver Plum. — In your August number I advLsed my northern 

 friends to try one Weaver plum at least— stating that it had fruited with me last 

 year for the first and it was the first "meaty greenish plum " that I had been able 

 to grow. I had only three specimens last season which grew inside, near the 

 ground and in a very shady place. This season I had them on the tree in more 

 exposed positions, and to my great surprise they were almost red in color, owing 

 to the action of the sun and light. I then looked it up in Elwanger and Barry's 

 Catalogue, and see that it is classed as a red plum. Nevertheless it is of an 

 entirely different character from an ordinary red plum, being superior to the old 

 varieties grown here in every way. It is not entirely red, is firm and meaty in 

 flesh, and of excellent quality. I still advise my northern friends to try a tree. 



Renfrew. A. A. WRIGHT. 



McMillan's Seedling Apple. — This apple, sent us by Mr. J. P. Cockburn, 

 Gravenhurst, originated in the county of Stormont, latitude nearly 46, and is the 

 product of a seedling tree twenty years planted. It evidently has the merit of 

 hardiness, and it is for a list of hardy apples that we can commend that we are at 

 present looking. It is a fine looking fall apple, and would be an ornament to any 

 table for the dessert dish. One great point in its favor, for these days, is that it 

 does not appear to have the least tendency to spot, a grievous fault with many of 

 our otherwise excellent dessert apples. The apple may be described as follows ; 

 Size, medium ; form, oblong ; skin, yellowish white, almost completely blotched 

 and dashed with bright red, much deeper on the sunny side ; stem, slender, three- 



