THE NAPANEE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Fici. 1234. — Mr. J. E. Herring, Scc'y-Treas. 

 are studied and discussed. Occasionally 



an essay is read. Last year the Society 

 offered prizes, open to students of the 

 Collegiate Institute, for the best collec- 

 tion of classified Botanical specimens of 

 plants growing wild or conamonly culti- 

 vated in Canada. The pride of the 

 society, however, is the annual Flower 

 Carnival which now takes rank as one of 

 the events of the year to which the citi- 

 zens generally look forward with plea- 

 surable expectation. A very good ac- 

 count of the one held in September, 

 appeared in the October number of this 

 journal, and our readers will see by 

 reading that account, that the Napanee 

 Society was at considerable expense, 

 and spared no pains in striving to make 

 their " Flower Show " a success. 



The Society has for some time past 

 had in view the establishing of a small 

 model park in the central part of the 

 town, and have hopes, with the assist- 

 ance of the town, that the matter will, in 

 the coming year, be brought to a suc- 

 cessful issue. 



JAPAN PLUMS. 



SPEAKING of plums, which by the 

 way rank among the highest from 

 a nutritive and a hygienic stand- 

 point, the Satsuma Blood is unexcelled, 

 if equalled, by any other of the Oriental 

 types. Unfortunately, however, the trade 

 knows nothing whatever about this fruit, 

 nor how to handle it. The dealers, 

 bless their hearts, most of them evolved 

 from a Minnesota blizzard, or an entry 

 clerk's high stool in some down town 

 warehouse, are in complete ignorance of 

 the almost infinite variety of new fruits 

 which are every year being sent from 

 California orchards. 



Take this Satsuma plum, for instance; 

 it will hang on the trees till late in Au- 

 gust, or even September, and then is 

 actually superb in quality. But the 

 trade orders it shipped early in July, and 



for no other reason except that a Brad- 

 shaw plum must be picked as soon as it 

 gets a little colored, or it will get soft. 

 The Satsuma gets deep red a month be- 

 fore it is even mature ; the Grand Duke 

 gets black and stays black for several 

 weeks on the tree before it gets soft ; 

 Wickson must be picked before it gets 

 a speck of color, and yet in ten days, 

 wrapped in paper, it is completely cov- 

 ered with an intense carmine. 



Fruits of all kinds differ vastly in their 

 habits of maturing and ripening, and it 

 is these hordes of draymen and office 

 boys, who have saved a few hundred 

 dollars, who make such hash of the best 

 California products ; nothing is easier 

 than to go into the commission business. 

 — Leonard Coates in California Fruit 

 Grower. 



