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I paid at the rate of $32 ])cr bush. 

 I can einloi-se the much said in its 

 favor. My return crop was two bush., 

 this spring sokl at $10 a bush by 

 Messers. Bliss. Friend Sellect will 

 have a limited supply of these for sale 

 next Spring, but the bulk of my supply 

 I will plant, they will likely pay me 

 better next year at $5 than at $10 this. 

 But I have V)een dealing in small fig- 

 ures. Mr. Arnold has i)ei'severed and 

 procured he says a ]:>ea far superior to 

 the above. When asked at our meet- 

 ing why he should give the Americans 

 the benefit of his discoveries, he replied 

 in his own quaint way, that he was al- 

 ways willing to sell in the best market, 

 and to let the enterprising purchaser 

 have the benefit, adding, " as soon as 

 you are prepared to pay me as I have 

 received for my last improvement, you, 

 or a more enter[>rising neighbor, are wel- 

 come to stamp your name on it." I 

 have received, he said, the second che- 

 que of $500 last week in payment for 

 less than a bushel of these peas. 

 These Mr. Editor are reliable figures — 

 $1000 for a scant bushel of peas. We 

 should say peas an? looking up. Such 

 are some of the results of the work of 

 such Associations. The merits of our 

 association are not well known. To any 

 one who has a garden patch or a few 

 apple trees, and any taste for them, I 

 will gurautee the one dollar subsciip- 

 tion to the Fruit Growers' A.ssociation 

 of Ontario, to be as good an invest- 

 ment as he ever made. 



John Croil. 



Aultsville, Feb., 1883. 



GOOSEBERRIES— VVORDEN GRAPE- 

 ROSES. 

 To THE Editor op tub Canadian Horticulturist: 



On page 33 of the last number of 

 your esteemed journal you invite ama- 

 teurs to use the columns of the Horti- 



culturist to make known their experi- 

 ence in horticultural matters. 



As an amateur, and as one who has 

 always 'aken a deep interest in horti- 

 culture, I gladly accept the invitation 

 and offer my mite. 



I will begin with my experience with 

 goosel)eiTies, of which iruit I have quite 

 a number of varieties. A Ithough agiee- 

 ing in the main with Mr. Wattson as 

 regai'ds the English gooseberry, that it 

 can be successfully grown with care, 

 still I think it best to rely chiefly on 

 the Downing and Smith's Imj)ro\ ed. 



A year ago last spring I planted a 

 number of bushes of these last named 

 varieties, and the result of their first 

 bearing last summer was really aston- 

 ishing ; some of the l)est bushes yield- 

 ing as much as two imperial gallons of 

 fine ripe berries to a single l)ush. Who 

 can beat this 1 My experience with 

 gooseberries is as follows : Ten bu.shes, 

 well cultivated and heavily manured, are 

 worth more than a bundled neglected 

 ones. Plant F^nglish goosebern(^s, if 

 j)OSsible, in a deep, cool, heavy soil, on 

 the north side of a building or fence. 

 If the soil is very light do not plant 

 them at all. 



My Worden grape bore last summer 

 for the first time. It is both e^^rlier 

 and better flavored than the Concord, 

 and is apparently quite as hardy. 



I cannot close this without mention- 

 ing my Roses, whicl. have given me 

 more pleasure than anything else that 

 1 have grown. Last fall I took the 

 first prize at our County show, the only 

 place at which I exhibited Roses. The 

 coming season 1 intend exhibiting at 

 the Provincial and other large shows. 



My favorite Ro.sesare .\lfred Colomb, 

 La France, and Marie Baiunan, and in 

 the order named. 



b^iEDERicK Mitchell. 



Innerkip, Ont. 



