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Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1900, No.15-21
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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d littledifficulty in identifying as the same. The accompanying engraving shows theplum in natural size; the color is greenish yellow, form roundish, of good size andexcellent quality; coming in before the better varieties of Japan plums, and notbeing subject to rot, this plum will no doubt be of considerable value. Seedling Plum.—From Hon. F. R. Latchford, Ottawa, Ont. The accompany-ing engraving of this plum appeared in the July number of The Horticulturist,where Mr. Latchford speaks of it as follows: ■A blue plum in my garden here is remarkable for its hardiness and pro-ductiveness. It most closely resembles the variety Prince Englebert. The treeIS said to have been planted about 25 years ago, and to be the only one of anumber purchased at the same time which has lived. The trunk divides in three 1889) FRUIT GROWERS ASSOCIATION. 51 It parts almost at the ground, where it has a diameter of about 15 inchesabsolutely hardy, and yields enormously about every second year. In 1S9« i
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The Emerald Plum (natural size).gathered from it 440 pounds of fruit. At lea,st 60 pound^ more fell^owing to ^thewind, or with branches which could not be propped. The size of the fruit is 52 THE REPORT OF THE No. 16 medium to large, and the (juality good. The variety seems a desirable one topropagate, especially in the East; and I shall be glad to give scions for budding,at the proper time, to all who may desire them. Our engi-aving shows a terminalcluster of the fruit. The Millionaire Peach.—From E. D. Smith, Winona, Ont. Mr. Woolver-ton gives the following account of this peach in the October number of TheHorticulturist:— We are in receipt of a very beautiful sample of peach to-day from Mr. E. D.Smith (Sept. 12th), which well deserves notice, providing the tree is hardy and pro-ductive and the fruit should average anything like this specimen. It very much re-

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