THI- ONTARIO AI'l'Ll', AND ITS OR K ", I X AI'OR. 



Via. 117!l— Mr. Charles Ausoi.h, Paris, O.vt. 



'E have already referred so 

 often to the Ontario apple, 

 that it may seem super- 

 fluous for us to again bring 

 it before our readers. We have only 



for division No. 9. For over fifty years 

 he had conducted the Paris Nurserie.s 

 but his attention was by no means con- 

 fined to narrow commercial lines, indeed 

 a very large part of his time was given 



one excuse, and that is, the desire of to originating new varieties, a work often 



placing side by side in this Journal, both 

 the apple and its originator. 



More than a decade of years has now 

 elapsed since Mr. Charles Arnold, of 

 Paris, was among us, the honored director 



unappreciated by the world, though often 

 of the greatest service to it According 

 to Mr. Beadle the firs; efforts of Mr. 

 Arnold in the line of hybridizing were 

 made with the grape ; crosses were 



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