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The Canadian Horticnltnrisi. 



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The Summer Meeting this year 

 will be held in the town of Sea- 

 forth, early in July, in accordance 

 with an invitation received from 

 the Town Council of that place. 

 Enquiries have also been received 

 concerning the holding of it in 

 Windsor, as the County of Essex is 

 rapidly reaching a foremost place 

 among the counties of Ontario in 

 fruit culture. The officers of our 

 Association are pleased to receive 

 such invitations at any time, and 

 other things being equal, will try to 

 visit each district sending in an in- 

 vitation in the order in which their 

 invitations are received. These 

 should either come from the corpor- ^ 

 ation of the town, or from the officers 

 of some organization, such as Farm- 

 ers' Institutes, Horticultural Socie- 

 ties, local Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tions, etc., who will take an active 

 part in working up a local interest 

 in the meeting. 



The Peach Crop this season in 

 the Niagara district promises to be 

 fairly good, and this will be a great 

 boon to many fruit growers who 

 have felt much discouragement dur- 

 ing the last few years, in which not 

 only has the peach crop failed, but 



the prices of small fruits have been 

 so low as to leave little profit, and 

 the apple orchard has been, in 

 some cases, only a bill of expense. 

 The peach buds are now swelling, 

 and it is easily seen which are the 

 live buds, even without cutting, from 

 their bright, healthy appearance. 

 Of the hardier kinds, such as the 

 Alexander, Hale's Early, etc., there 

 will be more than the trees should 

 bear, while of the tender varieties 

 such as the Early Crawford, there 

 will be a fair crop, imless, of course, 

 some disaster yet befalls them. 



The Primulas. — Those who have 

 chosen the Primulas will, we think, 

 be rather pleased than otherwise to 

 know that the}' are to receive, in- 

 stead of P. Sinensis, two plants of 

 the hardy primroses, viz. : P. Elatior 

 and P. Officinalis. But, lest any 

 one should be disappointed, we have 

 ordered one plant of the Storm King 

 fuchsia to be added to the package. 

 We, however, make this change very 

 reluctantly, and only because of the 

 failure in securing a sufficient number 

 of P. Sinensis. 



The Leconte Pear on our grounds 

 is growing famously, but so far has 

 borne no fruit. Mr. J. S. Brown, of 



