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Lemon. — Seedling, Eureka, Lisbon, grow vigorously, and bear abundantly. 

 I have one tree twenty years old, from which I picked and sold twenty-four 

 boxes, weighing seventy pounds to the box. This is a seedling. 



Walnut. — English; do not bear well. 



Orange. — Washington Navel; they bear very well and have no enemy. 

 Table Grape. — Muscat, Flame Tokay, Emperor. 



Apple. — Rambo, Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Ben Davis, Yellow 

 Newtown Pippin, Maiden's Blush, Kent, White Winter Pearmain, Rhode 

 Island Greening, Red Bellnower, Bailey's Sweet, Red Streak. I find that 

 the apple will do well, if it is kept wet all the time, otherwise not. 



Peach. — Lemon Cling, Orange Cling, Davis Cling, Smock's Late Free, 

 Salway, Susquehanna, Crawford's. All varieties do well. The Smock and 

 Salway are the best for drying; the Orange Cling for canning. 



Pear. — Bartlett, KeifFer's Hybrid. The pear grows very rapidly and the 

 fruit to fine quality, but deficient in quantity. 



Plum. — The Kelsey is the only plum that seems to bear well. 



Prune. — The French Petite bears heavily. The Gross and Silver do not 

 bear. 



Fig. — I have the Smyrna, so called, but it does not bear well. The com- 

 mon Black California fig bears and grows vigorously. Have trees thirty 

 years old that are two feet in diameter. 



Report of W. E. Collins, Ontario. 



Our district is preeminently adapted to citrus fruits. Deciduous fruits 

 are not regarded as desirable for permanent planting, as citrus fruits are 

 much more profitable and no more trouble, as the following table will show. 

 We had on June first, two hundred and thirty acres assorted deciduous 

 fruit trees around homes; eight hundred and thirty-four acres of oranges; 

 fifty-one and a half acres of lemons; seventy-one and a quarter acres of 

 prunes; one hundred and fifty-one acres of apricots (Royal and Moorpark) ; 

 forty-two and three quarters acres of peaches; three hundred and twenty- 

 nine acres of grapes (chiefly Muscats); ten acres of olives; eight acres of 

 figs; two and a half acres of blackberries; two acres of pears. The result 

 of five years cultivation and labor. 



LEADING FRUITS. 



Orange, lemon, and the prune. 



RECOMMENDED FOR PLANTING. 



Orange. — Washington Navel, Maltese Blood. 

 Lemon. — Eureka, Lisbon, Improved Sicily. 

 Prune. — French. 



LEADING VARIETIES. 



Orange. — Washington Navel, Maltese Blood, Mission Seedling. 

 Lemon. — Eureka, Lisbon. 



Table Grape. — Muscat, Malaga, Mission, Flame Tokay. 

 Prune. — Hungarian, French. 

 Fig. — White Adriatic. 



Peach. — Early Crawford, Late Crawford, Lemon Cling, Heath Cling. 

 Pear. — Bartlett, Clapp's Favorite, Flemish Beauty. 



