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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Black Heart. — Dr. Hoskins' opinion is that this is a disorganized wood, 

 caused by the rupture of the sap passages by severe cold. The sap spreads in 

 between the fibres of the wood, and runs black. Pruning trees during severe 

 winter weather renders trees more subject to this evil. 



The Wealthy Apple is extolled by our Quebec friends as a most valuable 

 apple, and hardy tree, but not as being free from faults, the chief of which is over- 

 bearing. Mr. Shepherd says that 50 per cent, of his crop, year befor^ last, was 

 too small for market. 



A Paving Cherry Tree.— A writer in The Fruit Growers' Journal^ Illinois, 

 writes that his best cherry tree is a Napoleon Bigarreau, budded on a Mahaleb. 

 It is over one foot in diameter at the base, some twenty feet high, round headed, 

 and the top is about thirty feet in diameter. P'or three years past it has pro- 

 duced from $12 to $16 worth of fruit each year ! 



The Weaver Plum, favorably mentioned by Mr. A. A. Wright, of Renfrew, 

 on page 352 of Vol. 13, is also highly commended by Mr. J. S. McLelland, of 

 Northern Colorado. He says : " It is the largest of the native plums I have 

 grown, and probably the best one to eat out of hand. The tree is a free, 

 upright grower and very prolific, a superb plum in every way." 



The Best Winter Apples. — At a recent meeting of the Montreal Horticul- 

 tural Society, Mr. J. T. McBride said he found his customers in Montreal, in 

 buying apples for family use, usually asked for Baldwins, Spies, (ireenings and 



