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Not Eighty Per Cent. American 

 Stock. — Dr. Fletcher wishes to correct 

 statement on page 109 that " 80 per 

 cent, of our fruit trees were imported 

 from the United States." What he said 

 was that " 80 per cent, of the surplus 

 stock of American Nurseries was shipped 

 into Canada." 



Mr. R. B. Whyte, our director at 

 Ottawa, has won the gold medal, the 

 first prize at the Ottawa Camera Club 

 exhibition. We hope to have many 

 samples of Mr. Whyte's work as illustra- 

 tions for our journal this summer. 



The Grape was the subject of an 

 address before the Goderich Society by 

 Mr. W. Warnock. He gave an inter- 

 esting history of the grape vine, and ex- 

 plained the extreme importance of this 

 fruit as an article of diet. 



Annuals for the Amateur's Gar- 

 den. — This is the title of an excellent 

 paper, written by Mr. R. B. Whyte, of 

 Ottawa, and read by him at the Annual 

 Meetin g of our_ Association. Two or 

 three selections only will be given here, 

 and will serve to cause our readers to 

 take up our Annual Report, and read 

 the whole. 



" For the best display from July to 

 November, we cannot do without some 

 of the summer bulbs, such as Tigridias, 

 Gladioli, Cannas, Dahlias, etc., and a 

 selection of the Herbaceous perennials, 

 but our main dependence for the gor- 

 geous show of Color that is possible 

 during that month is upon the Annuals. 



There is no half dozen perennials that 

 can be named that will give us one quar- 

 ter the show of bloom, that we can get 

 from the Dianthi, Poppies, Sweet Peas, 

 Phlox Drummondi, Asters, and Scabiosa. 



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