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berries. At Verrieres, in the garden of M. Henri de Vilmorin, 

 we again see this plant bearing heavily ; fruit red, a nice acid 

 fully equal to cranberries, and as free from seed. It seems a very 

 abundant bearer, and well worthy of introduction as a fruit-bearing 

 plant — a plant likely to yield quite as much of a fruit as good 

 and as salable as cranberry. The only question is its hardiness 

 It should be tried with us in sheltered corners, where the snow 

 drifts would be hVely to cover it. In many nurseries this is known 

 as E. edults. 



PAGUS— Beech. 



The European Beech is not as hardy as our native species. 

 It will not thrive at St. Petersburg, whereas our own is found 50 

 miles north of the city of Quebec. I observed, however, that the 

 cut- leaved beech {F. sjyl. inctsa) is hardier than the purple-leaved, 

 and may be tried in rather severe climates. There is a very fine 

 specimen of the cut-leaved in good health on the grounds of Mr. 

 Wagner at Riga. 



FRAXINUS-Ash. 



The Foresters in Russia prefer the American ash to their 

 native specieu. So do the Forest Schools in Western Europe. 

 The excelsior, however, grows to greater size ; one in the Botanic 

 Gardens at St. Petersburg rises from the ground with six trunks 

 from 5 to 1 5 inches in diameter. The American is said at several 

 different points to be the hardier. This seems strange, for at the 

 Botanic Garden at Kazan we were told that excelsior was indi- 

 genous in that government. The variegated form of our native 

 ash {F. Am. aucuhaefolia) we find at Moscow and other places. 

 The single leaved ash {F. exc. monophylla) has grown to the height 

 of 20 feet in the Moscow Botanic Garden, and seems quite hardy, 

 whereas little trees of mine at Abbottsford suffer. The weeping 

 ash {F, exc. penduld) is fairly hardy at Riga. Tho young shoots are 

 sometimes injured there. F. juglandifolia sub-intermedia may be 



