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the Fairs Association, an association of all the fall fairs exclusive of 

 the Canadian National the Central and the Western, with a member- 

 ship of 230,000, and that society is working in co-operation with the 

 Horticultural Society in trying to make our country bright and beau- 

 tiful. 



Dr. Russell Smith replied appropriately, expressing the appre- 

 ciation of the meeting for Mr. Wilson's address and paying the grace- 

 ful compliment to Canada that to the United States she was a great 

 asset in the nature of an example. 



Mr. Greene : I think I ought to say in fairness to the speaker 

 that I was enlightened by the magnitude of the work that his horti- 

 cultural society was engaged in, and in that I see the reason for some- 

 thing that we remarked about when driving along the eastern borders 

 of Ontario, and that is the continuous flower garden that we rode 

 through. 



The Chair: We are continually asked questions as to what is 

 going to be the profit from nut trees, and it was determined to get 

 information at this meeting- from the few commercial orchards in 

 existence as to what the returns had been. 



Mr. Greene thereupon read a communication from Miss Amelia 

 Riehl, of Godfrey, Illinois. 



