SOMETHING ABOUT THE FRUIT CONVENTIONS. 



the continental gardens, and import annually all the best new kinds. They have 

 very kindly furnished us with a select list of a few good new roses, which have 

 been well proved in their nursery, and which will, wc doubt not, be very accept- 

 able to rose growers in making atlditious to their stock. 



H. P. Victor Trouillard : Howers of tlio deepest crimson, foliage very fino, and in ovory 

 respect a magnillcent rose. The entire stock of tliis variisty is in our own (Messrs. 

 Standish & Noble's) liauds ; we purcliaaed it from tlie raiser, a gentlemau at 

 Angers. 



P. M. Madame Edouard Ory ; bright carmine ; a fine globular flower. 



II. P. Madame Masson ; large, full flower ; clear crimson. 



H. P. Kmpcror Napoleon ; very fine, bright crimson ; petals, velvet-like. 



II. P. GtMicral Jacfjueminot ; vivid red ; one of the finest roses yet raised. 



H. P. Uloire do France ; large and full ; crimson shaded. 



II. P. Madame Place ; lively rose color. 



II. P. Colonel de Rougemont ; clear carmine ; shaded. 



11. P. Madame Cambaceres ; rose color ; a charming flower. 



H. P. Souvenir de la Reine d'Angleterre ; very large flower; lively rose color. 



H. P. Triomphe de I'Exposition ; bright, reddish crimson. 



II. P. Lord Raglan ; centre, bright red ; outer petals, purplisb. 



II. P. Prince Noir ; deep crimson; petals, like velvet. 



M. P. Salet ; bright rose. 



B. rJloire de Dijon ; pale flesh color ; centre, yellowish ; large, full flower. 



H. P. Jules Margottin ; carmine ; fine, full flower ; very handsome. 



P. Nicholas d'Assas ; clear rose ; very full ; finely imbricated. 



SOMETHING ABOUT THE FRUIT CONYEXTIONS. 



BY THE LATE A. J. DOWNING. 



I AM, as you know, too much of an " old digger," to attend political meetings, 

 agricultural fairs, or even fruit conventions. I am not only a little stiff in my 

 joints, but it makes me nervous and irritable to see mere spouters and stump- 

 speechifyers having most of the talk to themselves in such places, while the honest, 

 sensible men, who have something to say, sit with their mouths closed. 



However, I am fond of fruit ; and as it is plain that we are to be a great fruit 

 country, and that orchards, good apples, pears, and peaches, are to be every land- 

 holder's possession who cares enough for them to plant the trees, I look with a 

 little more interest than common on these fruit conventions. 



There is no doubt at all that a great deal of good will grow out of annual 

 meetings of all the most experienced fruit growers in the country. There is a 

 great deal of knowledge among practical men which never gets into the books ; 

 and many a rough hand, who writes his own name as if he were jumping a bog 

 meadow, has picked up certain bits of experience in his lifetime, that are worth, 

 if you can get it out of him by talking, a good many more chapters than are to 

 be found in many current books on the same subject. It is quite natural that, 

 when such men get together, they should set each other agoing, if not .by set 

 speeches, at any rate by a chat in the corner ; and I have no doubt that as much 

 good is done in this sort of familiar intercourse among brother cultivators as in 

 all others. 



But when people go to a national or general convention, they must not take 

 crab-apples and choke pears in their pockets. I mean, in plain English, that 

 they must not go crammed full of sectional feelings and local jealousies. It is 

 very proper and very praiseworthy for me to be fond of my own horses and dogs, 

 my own cornfields and meadows ; but it will not do for me to imagine them better 

 than anybody else's, and tell my neighbors so to their faces. All sorts of social 



