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sub-acid flavor. But such fruit can only be grown with, good 

 cultivation, and a full exposure of the fruit to light and air, and 

 then it will rank in quality as "best." But if the tree be 

 neglected, the top over-crowded, the fruit grown in shade, and 

 the soil poor, there will very likely be a great abundance of small, 

 half-colored, flavorless apples, not e^en worthy of being called 

 good. In use from January to June, and to the last retains its 

 fine, sprightly, refreshing flavor. 



PoMMB Geise. — ^This is a favorite dessert apple throughout 

 Canada, generally supposed to have oiiginated in the Province of 

 Quebec, and is sufficiently hardy to endure considerable severity 

 of cUmate. The tree grows but moderately, usually erect in the 

 nursery, and forming in the orchard a small rounded head ; comes 

 early into bearing, and yields large crops. The fruit is usually 

 below medium size, flattened in form, color greenish gray russet, 

 with a little red on the sunny side in exposed specimens ; flesh 

 yellowish, fine grained, tender, rich and agreeable flavor ; quality 

 " very good." 



PoMME Geise d'Oe. — Swayzie Pomme Grise. — ^We are inclined 

 to believe that this variety originated on what is known as the 

 Swayzie farm, a few nules above Niagara, on the Niagara Eiver. 

 The origiual tree was blown down during the summer of 1870, 

 and was standing in an irregular clump of apple trees, having the 

 appearance of being the original seedling nursery, from which 

 were raised the first apple trees planted out in orchard form on 

 the farm. From this place, certainly, the variety has been dis- 

 seminated through western New York and a considerable part of 

 western Ontario ; and as we have liever seen any description of ■ 

 this apple in any work on Pomology, nor heard of any trees not 

 derived from the above named source, we have no doubt but that 

 it originated on the Swayzie farm. 



The tree is a moderately vigorous, upright grower, forming in 



the orchard a medium-sized tree, with a rounded head. It has 



proved to be hardy in localities some distance north of Toronto ; 



but we are not aware that it has yet been tried in the Ottawa 



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