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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



President Earle introduced Dr. Mc- 

 Kay, of Madison, Mississijopi, as one 

 of the largest strawberry culturists in 

 the United States, wlio read a paper 

 on " The Strawberry Culture in the 

 South." Dr. McKay spoke in high 

 terms of the capabilities of the compact 

 clay lands in Central Mississippi for 

 Strawberry growing, and the esteeni in 

 which the berries are held, commanding 

 the highest price in northern markets. 

 He said during the last ten years we have 

 tested about forty varieties, covering 

 many of the old and well tested stan- 

 dards, and such of the new as seemed 

 to give the greatest promise, and while 

 we are free to say that among the new 

 there are to be found many charming 

 and valuable acquisitions, we are 

 equally free to say that up to the pre- 

 sent time we have found no single 

 variety to be trusted so implicity as the 

 Wilson's Albany. The great ease and 

 facility with which it adapts itself to 

 latitudes, soils and seasons, is wonder- 

 ful. Wherever other varieties do well, 

 as a rule, it does better. When allowed 

 to fully mature on our southern soils, 

 where the saccharine elements are 

 more liberally developed in all our 

 fruits than in higher latitudes, its pro- 

 verbial acidity is so blended with the 

 sweet, that it deserves high rank as a 

 " home and local berry." He spoke 

 highly of the Charles Downing, Cum- 

 berland Triumph, Monarch of the West, 

 Newnan or Charleston. " But were 

 we to select two varieties for the South, 

 we say Wilson first, and Charles Down- 

 ing next." The Doctor gave a deal of 

 instruction regarding field and garden 

 work to procure large crops and fine 

 fruit. 



Mr. O. B. Galusha, of Southern Ill- 

 inois, real a pa])er on the question, 

 *' Is there a better mai-ket strawberry 

 than the Wilson ? " He spoke in high 

 terms of the Wilson as a standard, pro- 

 fitable market berry, and a great bearer 



with rich cultivation. After this paper 

 was read, a general discussion took 

 place on the merits of the Wilson and 

 other berries. The Wilson came off 

 triumphant. 



All urged the necessity of high culti- 

 vation and irrigation ; if these two im- 

 portant matters are attended to, success 

 in the culture of strawberries is certain 

 and profitable. 



William Roy. 



Royston Park, April, 1883. 



CHARLES ARNOLD. 



{For the Canadian Horticulturist.) 



Your words announcing in your May 

 number the demise of our venerable 

 friend fell like a sudden clap of distant 

 thunder ; so suddenly, so unexpectedly 

 did they come. It scarcely seems pos- 

 sible that Charles Arnold, of Paris, 

 with whose venerable form and ener- 

 getic voice we were so perfectly fami- 

 liar, has passed away from earth and 

 all earthly scenes, and that your em- 

 phatic words are now seriously and 

 eminently true, that " it is not to be 

 our privilege to listen to him agaiii." 

 We cannot possibly realize the fact of 

 the perpetual absence of Mr. Arnold 

 from the various meetings of our 

 association, so regular and so constant 

 from its inception has he been. In his 

 absence it will almost a])pear that there 

 is no Fruit Grower's Association left, 

 so much have we depended upon him 

 as a part and parcel of us. Yes, we 

 shall never see or hear him again in 

 his kindly warnings and friendly coun- 

 sels amongst us. Never again listen to 

 the pleasing rehearsals of his ripe ex- 

 perience in fruits or in flowers. Let 

 us ever be thankful for the kind and 

 instructive words he has so left on re- 

 cord in the publications of our associ- 

 ation. Although their author has 

 passed away, yet those words he has 

 left behind can never pass away, they 



