THE 



VOL. YII.] 



JANUARY, 1884. 



[Xo. 1. 



THE ATLANTIC STRAWBERKT. 



With a New Year's greeting to you, 

 gentle reader, and all the usual compli- 

 ments of the holiday season, the Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist presents you with 

 this New Year number a nicely exe- 

 cuted colored picture of a new straw- 

 berry that is being brought prominently 

 forward. It is the duty of a magazine 

 like this, devoted to the interests of 

 horticultural progress, to keep its 

 patrons fully informed of what is going 

 on in the fruil^orrowinfj world, and as 

 far as possible to present the facts with 

 regard to each new fruit or plant that 

 is offered to the public. While recog- 

 nizing this to be the duty of this 

 monthly, and endeavoring in all fidelity 

 to give you the truth in regard to these 

 new things, it is nevertheless no easy 

 matter satisfactorily to discharge this 

 duty. To say nothing of those who, 

 for the sake of some pecuniary gain, 

 will intentionally magnify the good 

 qualities and conceal the defects of their 

 bantling, there are many, whose oppor- 

 tunities of observation and comparison 

 have been limited, who think that 

 they have something wonderfully nice, 

 merely because they do not know that 

 there are already in cultivation fruits 

 of the same season far superior in every 



respect. These at once raise a shout of 

 ecstasy over their new-found treasure. 

 Again, it is so natural for most of us 

 to think highly of that which is our 

 own, to regard our own geese with such 

 a partial eye that to us they have be- 

 come changed into swans, so having in 

 this way convinced ourselves, we try to 

 impart to others the same high opinion 

 that we ourselves entertain. Besides 

 this, there remains yet this other fact, 

 that soil and climate and cultivation do 

 so modify results, that changes in these 

 respects frequently bring about most 

 unexpected consequences. 



However, to the best of our ability, 

 the Canadian Horticulturist will endea- 

 vor to give you the fullest information 

 possible, both for and against, so that 

 you may be able to form yoiu- own 

 opinions intelligently. It requires time 

 to test fully the qualities and value of 

 new fruits, so that by the time their 

 real value has been ascertained the 

 charm of novelty is gone, and public 

 attention is directed to recent comers. It 

 is well to hold firmly to tried friend- 

 ships, and by no means discard the old 

 until the new has been well tested. 

 True, novelty has its attractions, and it 

 is well that it has. To this we owe 



