. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. 35° The Canadian Horticulturist. SOME FRUIT NOTES FROM SIMCOE COUNTY. HE season of 1894 will not be remembered by fruit growers as one of the most profitable in their experience. Straw- berries here promised well in spring, but owing to cold rains and occasional frosts during blossoming time, the crop did not fulfil early expectations. One noticeable feature about them this year was that owing probably to the heat and wet at picking time, they did not keep or carry well. They would not keep twenty-four hours a
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. 35° The Canadian Horticulturist. SOME FRUIT NOTES FROM SIMCOE COUNTY. HE season of 1894 will not be remembered by fruit growers as one of the most profitable in their experience. Straw- berries here promised well in spring, but owing to cold rains and occasional frosts during blossoming time, the crop did not fulfil early expectations. One noticeable feature about them this year was that owing probably to the heat and wet at picking time, they did not keep or carry well. They would not keep twenty-four hours after picking, and any that were shipped a considerable distance arrived in bad shape and could only be sold at a loss. I still cling to Crescent and Wilson for market berries. Haverland and Bubach do well here, also the Williams, but none excel the two old varieties * for main crop. Haverland is too soft, it is no use for shipping, although it bears well and does better in a dry season than many others. Bubach No. 2 is a poor grower, does not make plants enough ; stems very short and fruit gets badly sanded in showery weather. I have not had enough experience with Williams to know how it will do here, but am favorably impressed with it. If we could get another berry like the Wilson, with all its good qualities as to firmness, hardiness, etc, and a little larger and a little earlier, such a berry would be a great acquisition. I can say nothing as yet of the forty varieties planted last spring, on the Experimental grounds ; it will be a year before I can report anything definite as to their merits or demerits. But so far as I have been able to judge, I think the Woolverton is one of the best of the new varieties Raspberries were a fair crop and sold at a fair price. I am getting more in favor of raspberries, in preference to strawberries ; there is not half the labor involved in growing them, a plantation if well cared for lasts a long time and produces well with less fertilizin
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