. Fruits for the cold north [microform] : report on Russian fruits : by Charles Gibb, Abbotsford, Quebec : with notes on Russian apples imported in 1870 by Department of Agriculture. Fruit; Apples; Fruits; Pomme. 27 a Ohamp- A winter d Holland y ; grown in Earlier in mover and )ng the Car- • June, and, B tree seems des, second ill January glily prized ized yellow r. It keeps me, not at ree is grown ly and pro- i wonderful Germany for uon, sugary of its season 'ound it not he Stettiner it keeps till A specimen urse at that antity in the stula, and is II winter, and •ed their be
. Fruits for the cold north [microform] : report on Russian fruits : by Charles Gibb, Abbotsford, Quebec : with notes on Russian apples imported in 1870 by Department of Agriculture. Fruit; Apples; Fruits; Pomme. 27 a Ohamp- A winter d Holland y ; grown in Earlier in mover and )ng the Car- • June, and, B tree seems des, second ill January glily prized ized yellow r. It keeps me, not at ree is grown ly and pro- i wonderful Germany for uon, sugary of its season 'ound it not he Stettiner it keeps till A specimen urse at that antity in the stula, and is II winter, and •ed their best : the Forestry md gave this 7, that keeps till March. It was not mentioned at Proskau among their best winter apples, but is a great favourite at Warsaw, especially for home use, for its tender flesh does not bear distant carriage. It did not seem hardy at Kursk, yet, like many of these German apples* valuable where the climate is not too extreme. PEARS. It may be a cause of surprise when 1 say that a pear is the best tree I know of for maintaining a dark, glossy, healthy foliage when planted on dry soil, in a climate where the summer sun is hot, the nights cool, the air excessively dry, and the winters very cold. Yet such is the case. In the public square at Simbirsk, in latitude 54°, on the Volga, a climate as severe as the city of Quebec, the wild pear is a fine ornamental tree, and seems the tree which suffers least from dryness of air and diminished rainfall. I must add, too, that the one tree of largest diameter of trunk which I happened to see during a journey of nearly 1,000 miles on the Volga, was this wild form of pear; a tree at Saratof, nearly thi'ee and a-half feet in diameter of trunk, measured near the ground. At Simbirsk it was that we first met with extensive pear culture in extreme climates. Here there must bo in orchard, I should think, 10,000 trees, and those mainly of two wild forms—one a Bergamot, usually about the size of the cut, or somewhat sm
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