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tions where it could be got. For one 

 thing, it is only an odd tree that can 

 be heard of, as the walnut does not 

 sprout as the hickory; it differs from 

 hickory also, for the small hickory is 

 the more valuable, whereas the 

 elegant finishing wood for furniture, 



or such work as the Hamilton Court 

 House where the meeting was held, 

 must be over lOO ysars old. I hope 

 the Editor of the Spectator will be 

 able to attend future meetings of this 

 Association. 



NOTES FOR FRUIT GROWERS. 



WE notice in Popular Gardening 

 that Mr. Samuel Miller fa- 

 vors selling fruits in 



SMALL TOWNS IN PREFERENCE TO 

 LARGE CITIES. 



He says : 



" It is a mistake to think that the 

 large city is the place to sell best. 

 The reverse is the case. I live but 

 one hundred miles from St. Louis, 

 and have been growing fruit here for 

 nearly twenty years, yet in all that 

 time I only sent five consignments of 

 ruit there, and each time received 

 less for it than in the smaller towns 

 in the interior of the state. Neither 

 was my fruit of inferior quality, for I 

 don't send that kind. Plant good 

 varieties, cultivate well ; don't let 

 them overbear ; then sell as near 

 home as possible, avoiding express 

 charges, commission, etc. As a rule, 

 these two items take half of the re- 

 ceipts, while the grower has to raise, 

 gather and pack for the other half. 

 The man who can devise a plan 

 whereby the grower can obtain what 

 he earns in growing fruit, will de- 

 serve a monument." 



There are some good points in the 

 report of Mr. Curtice's address on 



THE CANNING INDUSTRY 



at the meeting of the Western New 

 York Horticultural Society. He said 

 that growers and canners must work 

 hand in hand, as their interests are 

 identical. Only white cherries are 



generally wanted for canning, espe- 

 cially Bigarreau, Spanish and Na- 

 poleon, or any good-sized fair meated 

 sort, of the red acid sorts. Montmo- 

 rency is good, had paid 14 cents 

 per pound for them. He know"s 

 of a single cherry tree having yielded 

 $80 for fruit in one year. Plums 

 pay the grower well. He has paid 

 from $5,000 to !}58,ooo a year into 

 the little town of Webster for plums, 

 and yet there is nothing that might 

 be called a plum orchard. Imperial 

 Gage, Monroe Egg, Reine Claude, 

 and a variety he only knows under 

 the name of " Mottled Egg," are the 

 ones used for canning. Prunes are 

 too high for canning purposes. Ger- 

 man prunes average $3 a bushel. 

 Prefers the Bartlett to all other pears 

 for canning. The supply of fine 

 quality in fruit does not keep up 

 with the demand, and the canners 

 have hard work to get such fruits as 

 they want. The persistent grower 

 of superior fruits will be successful 

 financially, and need not to be dis- 

 couraged by the cry of low prices 

 and overproduction. Canners want 

 an acid, firm strawberry, and the 

 Wilson is now the only one used. 

 Of red raspberries, Cuthbert is as 

 good as any. The demand for 

 Quinces is rather limited, but for 

 good Western New York peaches 

 there is no limit. Growers should 

 not confine themselves to Early 

 Crawford, as it lasts only a short 

 time. Any large, yellow - meated 



