THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



society. To this end tliey have made 

 the membership fee to the Renfrew 

 Association twenty-five cents per an- 

 num, and to both the Renfi'ew and On- 

 tario Associations one dollar and twenty 

 cents per annum. Those who pay the 

 latter sum will be entitled to full privi- 

 leges of membership in the Ontario 

 Association, and receive the Annual 

 Report, the monthly Canadian Horti- 

 cultu7-ist and their choice of the four 

 premiums. 



This example is worthy of imitation 

 by the fruit-growers and horticulturists 

 of every county. There is in each 

 county such difference in soil, in amount 

 of rain fall, in degrees of summer heat 

 and winter's cold from every other 

 county that the experience of those re- 

 siding within the county can alone be 

 a sure guide in horticultural matters. 

 The Ontario Association would willing- 

 ly publLsh the proceedings of each coun- 

 ty association whose members were 

 subscribers to its publications, and thus 

 preserve and disseminate the informa- 

 tion derived from the county meetings 

 in the best possible manner. 



THE PvUSSIAN MULBERRY. 

 Professor Budd states that when in 

 Russia he saw in the Provinces of Orel 

 and Voronesh, bushy, low trees of the 

 Moras tartarica, perhaps twenty feet 

 high and eight inches in diameter, and 

 in the Botanic garden at Kiev he found 

 old specimens not over twenty-five feet 

 high and not to exceed one foot in di- 

 ameter. That if the Nebraska men 

 have found a mulberry growing " fifty 



feet high, and from three to five feet in 

 diameter," they liave found something 

 wholly unknown to the Russian fores- 

 ters, or to the Botanic gardens of Nor- 

 thern Europe. 



He says it is in truth a rapid grow- 

 ing small tree that bears bountiful crops 

 of fruit, which he advises may be 

 planted on account of its hardiness for 

 ornament, or as a windbreak, or for 

 fruit, but not for timber. 



A NEW GOOSEBERRY. 



Dui'ing the past summer we received 

 a few specimens of a new gooseberry 

 from Stone & Wellington, of Toronto. 

 The fruit received was of good size, ob- 

 long in form, and of a golden yellow 

 color, and of good flavor. In a letter 

 received from them they state that the 

 original plant was found in the State of 

 New York, growing wild in a decayed 

 hickory stump, by a pei'son who was 

 hunting. Being pleased with the ap- 

 pearance of the fruit he took the 

 trouble to return at the proper season 

 and take up the 2>lant. He removed it 

 SLiccessfullv, and it has been in bearins: 

 ever since. 



Messrs. Stone & Wellington have 

 now fruited this gooseberry for four 

 years and find that it is perfectly iiardy, 

 never having shewn any sign of mildew, 

 and each year bearing immense croj^s. 

 They describe it as a remarkably strong, 

 vigorous, upright grower, with dark 

 green glaucous leaves which resist mil- 

 dew perfectly, and remain on the plant 

 until the end of the season ; while good 

 samples of the fruit measure an inch 

 and three-quarters in length. 



