THE CANADIAN HOETICULTURIST. 



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Trees that have all along been culti- 

 vated round show more of the spot 

 than older ones that have for some time 

 been in grass. The Fameuse and Mc- 

 intosh suffer the most. 



If your readers have followed me so 

 far I commend their patience. 



Yours truly, JoHN Croil. 



P. S. — Since writing the above, I 

 find in the October number of the 

 Eorticvlturist answei'S solicited, with 

 experiences of the Hydrangea panicu- 

 lata, and its hardiness. And may say 

 that in our cold north, where 25'' below 

 zero is nothing uncommon, it has stood 

 the winter unhurt without any protec- 

 tion. We endorse Professor Budd's 

 opinion of it as a grand shrub— a plant 

 of it well woi'th a year's subscription 

 to the Horticulturist. — J. C. 



ANNUAL EXHIBITION 



OF THE ABBOTSFOliD FRUIT GROWERS* 

 ASSOCIATION. 



This society held its 8th annual ex- 

 hibition on the 2-")th ult., at Rougemont, 

 at the special desire of the Rouville 

 County Agricultural Society. It was 

 held in a large open shed built for the 

 purpose, and near the Agricultural 

 Society's show grounds. Such a shed 

 is the best possible building for such an 

 exhibition, and the special thanks 

 of the society are due to Messrs. 

 James Code and Richard Standish, of 

 Rougemont, for their hard work and 

 plucky perseverance in this matter. 

 Of apples, there were upon the tables 

 469 plates including 53 plates of crab 

 apples. In the contest for best collec- 

 tion, it was erpected that the tug of 

 war would be between the best Abbots- 

 ford collection and that of Mr. Whit- 

 field of Rougemont. Yet the three 

 pi-izes were taken by Abbotsford men. 

 Mr. Whitfield had plates of Ribston 

 Pippin and Northern Spy which wei'e 

 wonderfully fine. He had the Baldwin, 



Rhode Island Greening, and King of 

 Tompkin's County, tender varieties 

 which cannot be grown upon the ex- 

 posed slope of Yamaska Mountain. Ab- 

 botsford orchardists have been planting 

 a great many new varieties, yet we can- 

 not help feeling that had Mr. W^hit- 

 field's orchard been gathered, labelled 

 as carefully as the Abbotsford men dO' 

 theirs, it would have stood a fail- chance 

 of being fii-st. 



Of the 469 plates exhibited, about 

 340 were from Abbotsford, 128 from 

 Rougemont, of which 55 were from 

 Mr. Whitfield and 1 from St. Hilaire.. 

 In the single plate competition, how- 

 ever, Rougemont did well and the one- 

 plate from St. Hilaire took first prize 

 for '-best plate of Fameuse." 



The display of out-door grapes was- 

 exceedingly fine — 165 plates were 

 shown. Mr. Wm. Mead Pattison, of 

 Clarencevil I e, appeared with a collection 

 of 65 varieties including most of the 

 new varieties most worthy of trial. 



Mr. Pattison has undertaken a work 

 of gi-eat public usefulness, and is push- 

 ing it with an amount of perseverance 

 that must bring good results. His 

 collection was unanimously awarded 

 the first prize, and he was then har- 

 nessed in as a judge on the i-emaining 

 sections of grapes. 



The next largest collection was an 

 Abbotsford one of 34 varieties. In the 

 prize for best five varieties, the best 

 two collections were nearly a tie; as the 

 judges examined them, their merits 

 seemed to balance in the scales. The 

 first prize was finally adjudged to Mr. 

 Gibb, while in the opinion of Mr. Gibb, 

 Mr. N. C. Fisk should have had it, 

 owing to the very remarkable size of 

 his Lindleys. 



In vegetables there were many good 

 samples, but in general variety far be- 

 low the collection at the Knowlton,. 

 Dunham and Granby horticultural ex- 



