THE CANADIAN E0KTICULTUEI8T. 



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stand that this observatory was founded 

 and most liberally endowed by Mr. 

 H. H. Warner, of Rochester, N. Y. 

 for the purpose of popularizing as 

 well as promoting astronomical science, 

 and that by applying at his Office 

 Nos. 36-46 ' North St Paul Street, 

 Rochester, free admission tickets will be 

 cheerfully granted. The observatory is 

 situate on East Avenue, and is a con- 

 spicuous featui-e among the many beauti- 

 ful buildings that adorn that thorough- 

 fare. The accompaning illustration will 

 enable any of our readei's to recognize 

 it at a glance. 



Doctor Lewis Swift is the Director of 

 the observatory, known as the discover- 

 er of numerous comets, and the winner 

 of the Lelande prize from the French 

 Academy of Science. Visitors will find 

 him most courteous and obliging and 

 will be made most cordially welcome. 

 The telescope is the third in size of any 

 in America, being twenty-two feet in 

 length and having an object glass of six- 

 teen inches diameter ; its weight is over 

 four tons. The tower is an-anged with 

 all the latest appliances so that this 

 l)onderous telescope can readily sweep 

 the heavens in any direction. 



THE SUMMER MEETING, 

 of the Fruit Growers' Association of 

 'Jntario will be held in the Town Hall, 

 Berlin, County of Waterloo, on Wednes- 

 day and Thursday, the 25th and 26th 

 of June next. 



This meeting is to be held there upon 

 the joint invitation of the Town Coun- 

 cil and Horticultural Society of Berlin. 

 It is expected that there will be a large 

 atttendance of memVjers, and that the 

 meeting will px-ove to be one ' f the most 

 interesting ever held. A programme 

 of subjects for discussion will be pre- 

 pared and mailed to each subscriber, 

 ^vith full notice of all arrangements 

 connected with the meeting, in good 

 ;:ime to enable membei^s to be present. 



FRUIT LIST FOR EACH COUNTY IN 

 ONTARIO. 



By instructions of the Board of 

 Directors of the Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation of Ontario, the Secretary has 

 prepared a list of all the apples, pears, 

 plums and grapes known to be grown 

 in Ontario, with columns opposite in 

 which to indicate time of ripening, 

 quality, color, size and hardiness, and 

 value for cooking, dessert, local and 

 foreign markets, ifec. Twenty copies of 

 this list are to be sent to each officer, 

 who upon recei\ang them is to send 

 copies to the leading fruit cultivators 

 in each cotmty in his agricultural divi- 

 sion, with a request that they be filled 

 up and returned to him by the persons 

 to whom they are sent. After the di- 

 rector sending them has received them 

 back with the replies thereon, he will 

 compare those received from the same 

 county and make up a report from each 

 county in his division, and send these 

 several county reports to the secretary 

 in time to be presented to the next An- 

 nual meeting. We hope that gentlemen 

 receiving these blanks will have the 

 kindness to assist the officers of the 

 Fruit Growers' Association in theii* ef- 

 forts to prepare a list of fruits that will 

 be a reliable guide to the residents in 

 each county in the Province. 



BRANCH SOCIETIES. 



At the last meeting of the Directors 

 of the Fruit Growers' Association of 

 Ontario it was decided that branch 

 Societies, consisting of not less than ten 

 members can affiliate with this Associa- 

 tion on payment of eighty cents per 

 member, which shall entitle to all the 

 privileges of membership in this Asso- 

 ciation. 



The proceedings of such affiliated 

 Societies will be published in the Annual 

 report of the provincial Association. 



