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with what he has said in regard to the hemlock. The white pine also is a tree that can 

 be pruned into shape. I have seen a very nice little arbour made by planting four or 

 five pine trees in a circle, and then trimming the inside and the outside. This can be 

 seen on Mr. Dawson's farm. I am not disposed to think it would pay just at present to 

 plant the white ash for commercial purposes, because it is a tree that is growing in con- 

 siderable numbers in various parts of the country already. 



Mr. Beadle. — Is it the red cedar you are speaking of 1 



Mr. Drury. — No ; it is the white cedar — the arbor vitce. 



Mr. Beadle. — It is the arbor vitce, but not the white cedar ; what is known by 

 botanists as the white cedar does not grow here. The arbor vitce would make a very 

 pretty hedge, and bear trimming as you have said. 



Mr. Beall. — Questions have very often been asked me within the last year or two 

 as to what size the black walnut will attain in a given number of years. I have been 

 endeavouring to find some answer to the question, but I have not succeeded very well. I 

 am hoping, however, to get more correct information from England on that subject. I 

 think the probabilities are that there are English authorities more reliable than anythino- 

 we have in this country as to our Canadian black walnut. We find that the Canadian 

 black walnut was introduced into England in 1656 ; and I know of one tree that is about 

 153 years old, standing in England at the present time. That tree is now upwards of 

 five feet in diameter. It is at Fulham Castle. It is now in a perfectly healthy condition. 



Mr. Dempsey. — We have in our neighbourhood a black walnut tree — I could not tell 

 you the age of it, but it is very little less than two feet in diameter at the base of the trunk. 

 The limbs branch low — probably six or seven feet up. I asked the present owner of 

 the property how old the tree was. He said, " Oh, I don't know ; it must be about 120 

 years old, I think." I asked him how he knew. " Why," he said, "it was planted by 

 my grandfather." " But," said I, " the county has not been inhabited more than seventy 

 years." I think it was probably planted about seventy years ago. There is another tree 

 I took Mr. Beall to look at, is planted in another part of our county, which would make 

 about two standard sawlogs. That tree also must be about seventy years old. There is 

 a hickory tree that stands very near my house on a neighbour's premises, which forty 

 years ago I saw an uncle of mine pruning up. It was a little bigger than my thumb at 

 that time. That tree has more than twenty inches of diameter of trunk now. The 

 whole tree is not standing ; it forked, and in a heavy gale of wind it split down, and half 

 of it has failed. I fancy that the black walnut or the hickory could be brought up 

 in thirty years — perhaps twenty years — to quite a commercial size, and I believe it would 

 be profitable if properly cultivated ; but it would be necessary to cultivate close so that 

 the branches would not lie too low. 



The Association then adjourned sine die. 



SUMMER MEETING. 



The Summer Meeting of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario was held in the 

 Town Hall at Trenton, on Thursday, the 13th day of July. 



Order was called by the President, Mr. Dempsey, at half-past nine o'clock, when the 

 discussion of the first question on the programme, "Is the Cultivation of the Raspberry 

 for Market profitable 1 " was at once entei-ed upon. 



PROFITABLENESS OF THE RASPBERRY. 



Mr, Gott having been i-equested to speak on this subject said : — I am very sorry that 

 you have called upon me to speak to a question of this kind at so early a period of the 

 meeting, as I have not thought of the matter to any great extent. To the question " Is 

 he Cultivation of the Raspberry for Market profitable 1 " I should, however, say most 



