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THE CANADIAN IIORTICCLTL'RIPT. 



hundred and fifty bushels to the acre 

 ought to be secured with considerable 

 certainty. Now the price of strawber- 

 ries will average six cents per quart, or 

 one dollar and ninety- two cents per 

 bushel, which will make, at one hun- 

 dred and fifty bushels per acre, a gross 

 yield of two hundred and eighty-eight 

 dollars. It requires three years to pro 

 duce two crops of strawberries, so that 

 one will get from corn in three years 

 one hundred and fifty dollars, and from 

 strawberries five hundred and seventy- 

 six dollars. Which is the more re- 

 munerative crop'? 



the fruit growers' association 



of abbottsford, province of 



qup:bec. 



The Annual Exhibition of this Asso" 

 elation was held on the 27th of Sep- 

 tember last, at which two hundred and 

 seventy plates of apples and thirty-eight 

 of crabs were exhibited. The growing 

 (7f pears is a new industry in that sec- 

 tion, and only eight plates, comprising 

 three varieties, were shewn. The 

 Flemish Beauty is said to take the lead 

 in point of hardiness, the Clapp's Favo- 

 rite being next to it in that respect. 

 There were twenty-nine plates of plums. 

 The Lombard is reported as having 

 fruited heavily this year. Seedlings 

 raised from the wild plum of Wisconsin 

 have borne fruin for five years, always 

 full and sometimes loaded. Also the 

 (yhickasaw and the flat plum of China 

 r.YQ growing there, and so far seem to 

 b- hardy. Mr. W. M. Pattison, of 

 Clarenceville, Quebec, exhibited sixty 

 varieties of grapes grown in the open 

 air. Some new varieties of Russian 

 Melons were shewn, we presume by 

 ^Ir. Chas. Gibb, and pronounced very 

 fine. 



A new feature of the exhibition was 

 a collection of the foliage of some 100 

 varieties of ornamental and timber 

 trees, not natives of this province ; 



among which were 1 1 varieties of maple, 

 1 1 of ash, 8 of poplar (including three 

 varieties from Siberia, and one from 

 Turkestan), 10 of willow, 5 of Euro- 

 pean bass wood. 



There were also Walnut and Phillo- 

 dendrons from both North China and 

 Japan"; the Ailanthus, Ginkgo, and 

 Honey Locust from China ; the Cerci- 

 diphyllum, which grows to an immense 

 size on the mountains of North Japan ; 

 Conifers from the Rocky Mountains, 

 Central Europe, Chinese Tartary and 

 Japan ; shewing that Abbottsford is 

 taking the lead in increasing the flora 

 of the province and developing the })ro- 

 duction of both useful and ornamental 

 trees and shrubs. 



The matter of ornamental street plant- 

 ing has received some attention amongst 

 the members of the association, and it 

 is believed that Abbottsford is the only 

 place in the province of Quebec where 

 Norway maple, Weir's Maple, Catalpa 

 and the beautiful European cut-leaved 

 weeping birch have been planted as 

 road-side trees. 



The forestry movement here was en- 

 tered upon in no sense as a commercial 

 enterprise, but purely for experimental 

 and educational purposes, but gradually 

 nurserymen are beginning to move in 

 the matter to supply a demand that is 

 sure to spring up for ornamental and 

 timber trees. 



REMEDY FOR THE YELLOWS IN THE 

 PEACH. 



Dr. Penhallow, of Houghton Farm, 

 advises as the next best thing to a 

 specific fertilizer for the peach, composed 

 of costly ingredients, the utilization 

 of all the wood ashes one can save or 

 buy, with the addition of common salt 

 as a means of obtaining the chlorine he 

 would get in muriate of potash. 



Note. — Our readers can gather wood 

 ashes where wood is used for fuel and 



