THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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OEORGE MITCHELL'S EXPERIENCE. 

 It seems that we have been guilty 

 of a very gross breach of journalistic 

 etiquette in publishing Mr. Mitchell's 

 letter, page 204, entitled " Experience 

 in starting a fruit farm." In that letter 

 he speaks in not very complimentary 

 terms of a brother editor, and we failed 

 to draw the pen through his name, 

 which we ought to have done, and we 

 are very sorry that we did not, and now 

 to make the amende honorable as far as 

 it is in our power to do so we publish 

 his communications On the subject, 

 although he says they were not written 

 for publication. 



Office of Purdy's Fruit Recorder and Cottage 



Gardener, and Palmyra Nurseries, 

 Pylmyra, N.Y„ Sept. 9, 1884. 



Dr. Beadle, Sir, — I am surprised to 

 find you opening your pajier to such an 

 attack on me and my business. This man 

 Mitchell ordered stock with the knowledge 

 that my catalogue plainly states that I must 

 have the privilege of substituting other 

 sorts equally as good in case I should be 

 out of any sort. I have repeatedly stated 

 that if any substitutes I made were not 

 satisfactory I would make them so. Your 

 allowing such an attack on me and my 

 business is something I have never yet 

 seen or heard of in any horticultural 

 paper. I could print page upon page to 

 shew what kind of stock I have received 

 from such men as Parry, Collins, Lovett, 

 Roe, and others, but I do not think I 

 have the right to do it. I had always 

 looked upon you as a friend ; but this 

 breach of etiquette in journalism shows 

 me my mistake. There is another side to 

 this matter of Mitchell's but I do not 

 care to waste ink about it, nor neither do 

 I ^vrite this for publication. 

 Respectfully, 



A. M. PURDY. 



The same mail brought the following 

 ]>03t card, addressed Dr. Beadle, St 

 Catharines, Prov. Ont. : — 



Office of A. M. Purdy's Fruit, Farm and Recorder, 

 Palmyra, NY., Sept. 9, 1884. 



You will probably find that the Recorder 

 with its 20,000 circulation has about as 

 long a handle as your little Horticulturist, 



with its 800 to 1,000 circulation, and you 

 niojj find that yon have not always given 

 full satisfaction in your trade. 

 Very truly, &c., 



A. M. PuRDY. 

 Now we hope that our readers, 

 though comparatively few in number, 

 will understand after this that our 

 brother Purdy is an honest, straight- 

 forward man ; that he does just as he 

 advertises to do ; and surely no man 

 can ask more. And fuither, we wish 

 our correspondents to understand that, 

 having the fear of the long h indie of 

 the Fruit Recorder before our eyes, we 

 shall be very watchful hei'eafter, and 

 not Hllovvanvcomiilaints against brother 

 Purdv to slip into the (Jauad/an Horti- 

 cuUurist. If they have any grievance 

 of this kind they must ventilate it 

 elsewhere. We trust they have suf- 

 ficient consideration for their •^'ditorto 

 be willing to forego the satisfaction of 

 airing their complaints before the few 

 readers of our little Uortlodturist, 

 when by doing so they will be exposing 

 all our business transactions to the 

 gaze of twenty thousand people. A 

 word to the wise is sufficient. 



NOTES OX SOME NEW FRUITS. 



CORRECTION, BY HON. M. P. WILDER. 



We are under obligations to our 

 venerable correspondent for calling our 

 attention to a blunder which has been 

 made in the printing of his letter on 

 page 207, and we wonder that it escaped 

 our notice when i-eading the [U'oof. 



The names of the Prince and Prime 

 strawberi'ies should be transposed. It 

 will then read, as written by Mr. 

 Wilder : " The Piimo StrawVjerry is 

 large, uniform, l.-ite, very good, and 

 prolific ; the Prince (of Berries) hand- 

 some, pr(xluctive, and of high flavor." 



The venerable President adds that in 

 speaking of the Maidboro' R;ispberry 

 he wrote, " and if hardy it will be an 

 acquisition." 



