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us. We want to grow things in our garden to make a living out of. The cauliflower we 

 cannot raise any more in our neighbourhood satisfactorily. I can remember the time in 

 Hamilton when we got as high as half a dollar a head for it, but now I do not know that 

 I sell two dollars worth of cauliflower in a year. It is eaten with the insects. As for 

 onions, I have grown them successfully for twelve or thirteen years in the one place, but 

 now I cannot grow them — not to any account. The maggot and the thrip have totally 

 destroyed them. Then celery we used to raise, but we cannot do it any more. 



Mr. Beadle. — What do the gardeners grow for a living? 



Mr. Taylor. — We raise a few things, and manage to raise a living. We raise 

 potatoes, and we can raise a few cabbage by putting them in large fields. We can grow 

 beets ; I do not know that anything has attacked them yet. We grow carrots too, in 

 large quantities. 



Mr. Beadle. — You used to find asparagus profitable, didn't you 1 



Mr. Taylor. — Yes; and it is now, where people have good places for it. 



Mr. Arnold. — Can you tell us whether there is more than one kind of asparagus] 



Mr. Taylor. — Yes ; there are half-a-dozen kinds. 



Mr. Arnold. — Can you see the difierence in them ? 



Mr. Taylor. — Yes, We plant them in rows so that we can get through between 

 them. 



Mr. Bucke. — Have you tried putting salt on the ground for destroying the worm 

 that eats the onions 1 



Mr. Taylor. — Yes ; we have tried salt, and we have tried ashes, and we cannot get 

 rid of it. 



Mr. Willard. — In regard to the cabbage worm, I was very much interested last 

 month at a statement made at the Michigan Horticultural Society on that subject. It 

 was stated, as a fact, that the use of pyrethrum or Persian insect powder was positive de- 

 struction to the cabbage worm. It was said that two teaspoonfuls to two gallons of 

 water applied to the plants with a syringe — frequent applications to it — was perfectly 

 etfective. The question was brought up whether it would be safe to use London purple 

 or Paris green for it, and the gentleman said it would not. He mentioned this as a 

 remedy that was not dangerous to use. He said it was not poisonous. He stated that 

 they had used it at the Agricultural College at Lansing with great efiect. 



On motion of Mr. Beadle, seconded by Mr. Honsberger, committees were appointed 

 as follows : — ■ 



On New Fruits. — Messrs. Morris, Allan, Gott, Gilchrist and H. Young. 



On Ornamental Trees, Shrubs and Plants. — Messrs. Wellington and Leslie. 



On Vegetables. — Messrs. Bucke, Page and Taylor. 



On Roses. — Messrs. Beall, Wellington and Dempsey. 



With instructions to report to next winter meeting. 



THE CHESTNUT. 



" Is the Sweet Chestnut a profitable tree to cultivate for the nuts 1 " was the next 

 topic brought forward for consideration. 



Mr. Beadle. — The price of chestnuts has been going up in our part of the world 

 right along this four or five years. It is a favoured part of'bhe country too for chestnuts. 

 A large part of the County of Lincoln is just chestnut land, and I can remember when it 

 was largely covered with chestnut trees. But they have gone before the woodman's axe, 

 very many of them, and the price of chestnuts this year was about four dollars a bushel 

 from the farmer's hands. I can remember when we used to get them for about half that 

 — only a very few years ago too. I do not know whether a chestnut tree yields one 

 bushel, or five, or ten. There is another thing about the chestnut trees. Well, these 

 things goby fashion, so I suppose we cannot always rely upon them, but for a while the 

 chestnut tree has been a very fashionable tree for finishing the inside of houses — for win- 



