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BOOKS, &c., receivj:d. 



School Supplement for July-Au- 

 ijust. jniblislietl at No. 9 Toi'onto Street, 

 Toronto, is einliellislied with two fine 

 ])ortrait.s of Qiiecu Victoria, also with 

 a portrait ol' J. Greenloaf Whittier, 

 and of Will Caj-lton. 



The Pkxze List of the Industrial 

 Fair and Semi-Oentenninl Exposition 

 to be held in Toronto. September 1 0th 

 to 20th. 1884, is received. Entries 

 close Saturday, August 23rd. Forms 

 and information can be obtained of the 

 Manager and Secretarx . H. J. Hill. 

 Esq., Toioiito. 



Settler's Pocket <Jliui: lo Home- 

 steads in the Canadian North-west, by 

 John T. Moore, Tox'onto. gives a de- 

 scri})tion of the lands at Crescent Lake, 

 Assiniboia ; North Elbow, in Saskatche- 

 wan ; and Red Deer, in Alberta, with 

 special reference to those offered Vjy the 

 Saskatchewan Land and Homestead 

 Company. 



Annual Report of Nebraska State 

 Horticultural Society for 1881. but, 

 however, just issued in 1884, is an in- 

 teresting pamphlet of 166 {)ages, for 

 which we are indebted to Mr. Daniel 

 H. Wheeler, as also for a copy of the 

 Prize List of the Nebraska. State Fair 

 to l»eheld in Omaha, Septendier 5th to 

 12th, 1884. 



Prize List of the Thirty-ninth Pro- 

 vincial Exhibition to be held at the 

 City of Ottawa, under the auspices of 

 the Aginculture and Arts Association 

 of Ontario, September 22nd to 27th, 

 1884. Entries of horticultural pro- 

 ducts, ladies' woi-k, and Hue arts must 

 be made on or before Satun lay, August 

 .'iOth. All information relating thereto 

 will be furnished by Henry Wade, 

 Esq., Sec, Toronto. 



A Basket of Cherries was received, 

 for which the kind sender will please 

 to accept our thanks. It contained fine 



specimens of American Heart, Black 

 Tartarian, Tradescant's Black Heart, 

 Reine Hortense, May Duke, Governor 

 Wood. Black Eagle, Butner's Yellow, 

 and oi' a seedling, which latter was of 

 good quality, excellent flavoui', and 

 seemeil to bear carriage i-emarkably well. 

 Judging from these samples we con- 

 clude that the cherry crop in the vici- 

 nity of Hamilton is very good. 



The Missionary Problem, a com- 

 pendious history of Pi'otestant missions 

 in the more imi)Oi'tant missionarv fields, 

 bv James Croil, Montreal, published by 

 Win. [ii'iggs, 78 King Street East, To- 

 ronto. From it we learn that the 

 average contribution per communicant 

 tiiroughout Christendom for this work 

 is less than fifty cents a year ; that a 

 thousand millions of people ai-e yet 

 heatli(Mi ; that there are in the United 

 States and Great Britain one hundred 

 and fouiteen thousand ministers preach- 

 ing to about seventy millions, but only 

 two thousand two hundred and ninety- 

 three preaching to this thousand mil- 

 lions of heathen. There is need of ten 

 thousand more missionaries and fifty 

 millions of iloUars a year to prosecutt' 

 this \\"ork, which might well be spared 

 from the fourteen hundred millions of 

 dollars annually spent in the United 

 States and Great Britain upon liquors^ 

 to the manifest benefit of all concerned. 



The Huri.hurt Apple. — I consider it 

 the most profitable apple we raise, as it is 

 a vigorous gi'ower and an early annual, and 

 heavy bearer, the apples being mostly fair 

 and saleable and free from the ravages of 

 the codlin moth, and they cling well to 

 the tree. AltlK^ugli not so good a keeper 

 as the Baldwin it is far superior in quality, 

 and always sells well in our home markets 

 It is a Novend)er and December apple. 

 (Jne <jf oiu- best orchardists told the writer 

 that if he were going to set out another 

 orchard he would set o)ie-half Hurlburts. 

 — H. J. A. Simmons, in Country Gentle- 

 man. 



