FRUIT REPORTS. 
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Champion**; Elberta**', Early Crawford*, Oldmixon Free**, Crawford Late*, 
Chairs Choice*, Ivalamazoot, Beers Smock*, Salway*, Quinces— Orange**, 
Champion*. Plums— Red June*, Burbank**, Niagara**, Duane Purple*, 
Gueii*, Lombard**, Arctic*, Imperial Gage*, Italian Prune**, French Damsont, 
Monarchf, Grand Duket, Bavay**. Pears— Giffard*, Wildert, Clapp favor- 
ite *, Bartlett**, Howell**, Angouleme**, Kieffer*, Lawrence**, Anjou*, 
Apples— Early Harvest*, Red Astrachan*, Yellow Transparent*, Olden- 
burgh**, Wealthy**, Maiden Blush**, Benoni*, Sweet Bough*, Fameuse*, 
Hubbardston*, Northern Spy**, Rhode Island Greening**, Baldwin**, 
Grimes Golden**, Jonathan**. 
4. As a rule, corn or potatoes are grown in the young orchard and then 
it is condemned to enter the regular farm rotation, with rather more than 
its share of pasturing. A few of the more progressive farmers give thorough 
culture. 
5. Only by a few specialists. I And they protect the roots and add humus 
and fertility. Rye, oats, crimson clover, cow peas and Canada field peas are 
used. 
6. Stable manure and some ashes are used and are usually found profit- 
able. 
8. Curculio, codling moth, San Jose scale, and borer among the insects, 
and pear blight, plum rot, apple scab and peach yellows among the diseases. 
Spraying and jarring the trees for curculio and removing and destroying 
yellows and blight are the best remedies. 
9. Irrigation not much practiced. 
11. Little evaporation is done in our State. 
12. The varieties suffering from the winter are about as follows: Apples — 
Grimes Golden. Pears— Bartlett, slightly. Peaches— All kinds, more or less. 
Plums^-Bavay, Niagara, Lombard and a few others. 
ONTARIO. 
BY PROF. H. L. HUTT, GUELPH, CHAIRMAN. 
On account of the pressure of work, it has been impossible for me to give 
the attention to this report for the Pomological Society that I would have 
liked, but I now enclose the reports from the four members of the Com- 
mittee. These reports are from widely different sections of our Province, 
and they are prepared by men well posted in fruit matters. 
REPORT FOR NORTHERN ONTARIO. 
BY G. C. CASTON, CRAIGHURST. 
1. That portion lying south of the 45th parallel. 
2. Soil. — Loamy soil for most fruits, and rolling land with natural drain- 
age. Price of land varies from $30 to $75 per acre. 
3. Varieties. — Apples — Northern Spy**, Baldwin**, King**, Ontario**, Ben 
Davis*, Seeknofurther*, Canada Red*, Fameuse**, Mann*. Early and fall 
varieties: Oldenburg**, l^ellow Transparent*, Alexander*, St. Lawrence*, 
Wolf River*, Hare Pipkaf, McIntosh*. 
