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speculators, and politicians, than in those of tlie people and country. 

 This hardly tallies with Sir Charles Tupper's statement at Mr. 8ini- 

 monds' lecture. Would it not be well for tlie Government of the 

 Canadian Dominion to give this matter their early consideration ? 

 It does seem strange that you on your side of the water cannot get 

 any reliable information as to the extent and probable future pro- 

 duction of the Canadian forests. 



I trust that others, as well as Dr. Lyons, may take up the cry of 

 alarm in the matter of timber waste, and that warning voices may 

 not only be heard, but heeded ; although it is greatly to be feared 

 that such warning will be received by the general public with 

 no more attention than was given to unhappy Cassandra in the 

 day of Ancient Troy. 



CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THOUGHT AND ACTION. 



rr^HE arboriculturists and horticulturists of the United States 

 JL have recently been enjoying a good time of conventions and 

 discussions. 



FRUIT-REFKIGERATING, ETC. 



At the Xew Orleans Exposition, according to President Parker 

 Earle, of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society, which held its 

 sixth annual meeting in January last, there were exhibits in 

 horticulture from thirty-six American States and territories; from 

 eleven foreign nations and three foreign provinces ; in all, just fifty 

 States and countries ; and exhibits are promised, and expected later 

 in the season, from several other countries. On the tables were 

 nearly 20,000 plates of fruit, representing all kinds of soil, and all 

 sorts of climate, from the rich jungles of Nicaragua to the mountains 

 of Colorado and Idaho, or the cold northern plains of Quebec ; from 

 the semi-tropic orchards of Florida to the rich valleys of California 

 and Oregon. More than a hundred varieties of apples came from 

 ICngland, some of which are said to come from trees older than the 

 American nation itself, and many varieties from the far-off plains of 

 < 'entral liussia, which have travelled more than 7000 miles to 

 reach this Exposition, and apples grown on the tablelands of 

 Mexico, 8000 feet above the sea, possibly from the old gardens of 

 die Aztec kings. 



At this Exhibition may be contrasted the apples from California 

 orchards, where severe freezing is unknriwn, with those which have 

 to endure 40 degrees below zero in Wisconsin or the Province of 

 Quebec. You may study English apples as grown in England and 



