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New Dominion holds its already high place as regards size and color. 



Bright Ida, rich looking and beautiful. 



Windsor Chief, medium size, firm, and well colored. 



Sharpless, not uniform in size, though some berries very fine. 



Your committee regret much that owing to the late heavy rains, the flavour of the 

 above varieties could not be very well tested. 



Mr. Charles Arnold, Paris, showed a curious sprout produced by hybridizing, the 

 stem of a strawberry bearing thirty-four berries on it. The fruit was of no great value. 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



Mr. William Saunders, London, exhibited three of his hybrid gooseberries ; These 

 were a cross between Warrington red and the wild prickly variety — both parents are 

 hairy to prickly. The largest of these was of good size with very stiff hairs, verging on 

 prickles ; the second lot were smooth, and also of good size, as large as Downing ; the 

 third was a small berry and showed the peculiarity of having two berries, which are 

 smooth, attached to each fruit stem. All three varieties are heavy bearers, as showed by 

 branches to which the fruit was attached. Of course at this season the fruit was unripe. 



R. Kettlewell, London, Ont., sent four varieties of gooseberries — White Smith, 

 Roaring Lion, Downing and Houghton. They were all well loaded and free from mil- 

 dew or other disease. He also showed some handsome specimens of the Red Cherry 

 Currant and sprigs of Quinces. 



RASPBERRIES. 



Mr. A. M. Smith, St. Catharines, placed on the table a basket of the Highland 

 Hardy raspberries, quite ripe. 



Kettlewell and Warden, London, Ont., sent some handsome plates of roses, set in 

 moss, to decorate the tables, but the gem of the exhibition was a magnificent bouquet, 

 arranged with much taste and presented by Miss Dem^Dsey, the fair daughter of the 

 President, made of flowers gathered on his grounds. The flowers were principally roses 

 interspersed with very fine spikes of doutzia crenata. 



Respectfully submitted, 



P. E. BUCKE, 



Col. John McGill, 

 John G. Peck. 



Mr. Arnold. — -I fruited the Early Canada this year for the first time, and I think I 

 am safe in saying, so far as my experience goes, at any rate, that it is the earliest straw- 

 berry grown. It is earlier than the Early Hudson. I think it is earlier than Metcalf's 

 Early. I have not had much experience with it, and I would not like to speak of any 

 other quality than its earliness. What I want is earliness. Let me supply the early 

 berries and I do not care who supplies the others. 



Mr. Beadle. — How did Arnold's Pride succeed with you this spring 1 Did it kill 

 your Arnold's Pride ? 



Mr. Arnold. — Yes. All strawberries suffered pretty much alike with me. I do not 

 know of any one variety that sufiered much more than any other. The Sharpless, I am 

 somewhat inclined to change my mind in regard to. I was very severe on it last year. 

 However, it has one fault : the berry is always white on the end. But the plant bears a 

 few very fine berries indeed. 



Mr. Beadle. — Do you cultivate yours in hills 1 



Mr. Arnold. — No. 



Mr. Beadle. — Then you will never get any crop. 



Mr. Arnold. — I think a strawberry ought to take care of itself. 



Mr. Beadle. — How did Bright Ida succeed this year 1 



8 (F. G.) 



