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Triomphe de Guillot Fils, T. — One of the best, sweet scented, 

 very large and full, color wMte, delicately shaded witli rose and 

 isalmon. 



The foregoing are, perhaps, the hest we have ; newer sorts, 

 as Adrienne Gliristophle, Belle I/yonnai^e, Madame Levet, &c., 

 have not yet been sufficiently tested here to speak confidently of 

 their merits. 



CLIMATIC VAEIATIOTSrS. 



There is a great variety of cHmate within the boundaries of 

 our Dominion, which necessarily affects the cultivation of Fruits, 

 and places certain limitations upon the variety of ornamental 

 plants that may be used in the adornment of grounds, and of 

 vegetables wherewith to supply the table. In addition to what 

 has already been said upon the hardihood of the several varieties, 

 it may be profitable to take a general survey of the variations in 

 climate which obtain in the several Provinces, and of their effect 

 upon horticulture. 



In the Province of Ontario, there is a strip of land lying 

 between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and along the northern shore 

 of Lake Erie and the southern shore of Lake Huron, where the 

 Peach can be successfully grown in the. open air. This is owing 

 to the influence which those large bodies of water exert upon the 

 temperature. It follows that all other plants as hardy as the 

 Peach can be grown within these limits, hence we find here the 

 Heart and Bigarreau Cherries, and a large variety of Pears and 

 Grapes, and nearly every valuable variety of Apple. There is also 

 a strip bordering upon the north shore of Lake Ontario, and along 

 the St. Lawrence, and upon the Georgian Bay, where the Uke 

 amelioratiug influence is exhibited, but not in a degree sufficient 

 to admit of the successful open air culture of the Peach. Yet its 

 influence is seen in the number of varieties of Apple and Pear 

 that can be grown, in perfection near the water, as compared with 

 the number that wdl succeed a few miles inland, though in the 



