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Fears. 



Clapp's Favourite. — Summer Doyenne. 



Pear culture will never amount to anything more than an amateur culture in 

 our region. The two Varieties here mentioned grow and give fruit since many years 

 in a few localities around our place. I am testing them now in my own orchard. 



Flums. 



Blue. — Damson or Orleans, Imperial, Lombard. 

 Yellow. — Imperial Gage, Orleans, Eeine Claude. 



A curious fact to mention is that all the plum-trees just named live much longer 

 in our latitude than they do in the Montreal or more southern regions. 



Cherries. 



French cherry. 



_No other cherry can compare with this variety in our region, either foi' pro- 

 ductiveness or good quality of fruit. It is considered to be the same as Early 

 Eichmond. 



G-Qoseherries. 



Green. — Downing. 

 Bed . — Houghton. 



Currants. 

 Black. — Black Naples. 

 Eed. — Cherry. 

 White.— White Grape. 



Raspberries. 

 • Eed. — Antwerp. 



White or yellow. — Orange. 



The last variety named is, as far as we can judge, of French origin, for it is 

 cultivated in our gardens from time immemorial. It is the best and most hardy 

 known to us. 



Grapes. 



Black. — Champion, Hartford. 



Grape culture is impossible below St. Eoch des Aulnaies, L'Islet County, 

 next to our Kamouraska County, seventy miles below Quebec. Even from Quebec 

 to that place it cannot be anything but an amateur culture. The vine withstands 

 well our winters, if mulched with earth, but it does not ripen its fruit every year. 



Strawberries. 



Eed. — Sharplese, Wilson's Albany. 



White. — White Alpine. 



The White Alpine strawberry is remontante, a French word, meaning that it 

 gives two crops in one summer. It is very hardy, withstands well our winters 

 without mulch of any kind, and is of a rich and extraordinary aromatic flavor. 



Cranberries. 

 For wet land. — Bell. 

 For dry land. — Cherry. 



To complete these notes, I will now give the names of a few ornamental trees 

 and shrubs not belonging to our region, but well acclimatized. 



Ornamental Trees. 



Butternut {Inglans cinerea), Cut-leaved Weeping Birch (Betulapendula laciniatd), 

 Horse Chestnut {JEscuLus hippocastanum), Kilmarnock Weeping Willow {Salix 



