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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



of the new organization, followed by 

 other annual addresses and articles 

 on various subjects, many of which 

 are matters of record in the proceed- 

 ings of this association. " Ex-ofticio " 

 he took his seat in the then flourish- 

 ing Council of Agriculture and Arts, 

 and was by this council appointed 

 delegate to the Convention of Ameri- 

 can Pomologists sitting at Philadel- 

 phia, w^iere he became a life member 

 of the American Pomological Society, 

 and soon after was admitted a mem- 

 ber of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. In one of 

 his annual addresses he dealt with the 

 important subject of "Forest Denu 



dation," since which time the subject 

 has become one of more than ordinary 

 interest, engaging the attention of all 

 civilized nations as of paramount 

 importance, not only to agriculturists 

 and fruit growers, but as touching the 

 health, happiness, and progress of 

 the race ; these he clearly saw were 

 correlated forces. This and similar 

 subjects still engage liis attention. 



In the field of Hybridization some 

 of his productions bear his name. 

 Ever occupied in the study of plant 

 life, being a close student of Evolu- 

 tion, his guiding "Motto" has been 

 " To the solid ground of Nature 

 trusts the man who builds forever." 



THE FRUIT PROSPECTS. 



ONTARIO fruit growers were 

 congratulating themselves 

 during the month for May, on the 

 magnificent prospects of an abundant 

 yield of many kinds of fruit. When 

 "Old Probs " said on the 28th of 

 May that there would be a frost in 

 some parts of Ontario we thought 

 the parts affected would no doubt be 

 north of Lake Ontario, and we in the 

 Niagara district would escape in 

 safety. But Jack Frost took quite a 

 new departure, and treated us with 

 the greatest severity. A fruit grower 

 at Fonthill who has twelve acres in 

 fruit, upon which he wholly depended 

 for his living, took the writer through 

 his grounds a few days ago. His 

 fine vineyard, of which he had been 

 justly proud, was now a source of 

 bitter disappointment ; the frost 

 had not left a single green leaf, much 

 less a single bunch of grapes. All his 



strawberries were cut oft. " Indeed" 

 he said, " I have not a thing left me 

 to pay for my labor this year in 

 caring for my fruit farm." 



" Surely your apples are safe," 

 said I. 



No, "he replied," they too are 

 completely gone." 



" But there are a good many still 

 hanging, and the they look all right." 



" WeU" he said, "they will not 

 hang long," and with that he cut 

 open some of them and disclosed the 

 dark core, a full proof of the destruc- 

 tive work of the frost. Cherries and 

 pears were also totally destroyed, and 

 even his raspberries, though looking 

 to be all safe, yet, upon cutting open 

 the still unopened buds, the black 

 germ showed but too plainly the sad 

 tale of death. 



Over a large part of the Niagara 

 peninsula, nearly as unfavorable 



