NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



largely. Discouraged by the low prices 

 of one or two seasons, they have given 

 up these fruits, and encouraged by the 

 high price of apples in 1897, all want 

 to plant apple orchards. Mr. W. E. 

 Wellington says that the Fonthill Nur- 

 series sent out over 300,000 apple trees 

 this spring ! Next year, should apples 

 be cheap, no doubt our fruit growers 

 will again begin digging out their apple 

 orchards. Why this unrest ? There is 

 rise and depression in all lines, and the 

 wise man keeps straight on in his cho- 

 sen lines, whether he is on the crest of 

 the wave, or in its hollow. 



The Western Horticultural So- 

 ciety of Manitoba has recently been 

 organized, and the President, the Rev. 

 Prof Baird, of Winnipeg, has forwarded 

 us a copy of the following resolution, 

 passed at a meeting held on the 15th of 

 March. 



It was moved by Mr. H. C. Whellanis, 

 secondeil by Mr. G. H. Greig, and agreed 

 uuanimously that, while the Western Horti- 

 cultural Society cannot agree to affiliate with 

 the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, on 

 account of the diflferences of climatic condi- 

 tion which renders such an intimate degree 

 of co-operation impossible, yet this Society 

 thanks the Ontario Association for the 

 friendly wishes which are expressed in its 

 proposal, and asks that it be allowed to co- 



operate with the Ontario Association in any 

 free and harmonious way which may be found 

 to be niutually desirable or beneficial. 



It is a great pleasure to us to 6nd so firmly 

 established and influential an Association as 

 yours taking so friendly an interest in our 

 small affairs, and you may rest assured that 

 we will do anything that lies in our power for 

 the promotion of the interests of horticulture 

 throughout Canada at large, and for the pro- 

 motion of good will and friendly intercourse 

 between your Society and ours. 



California's Fruit Products are 

 enormous. It is estimated that her 

 export of cured fruits alone, during the 

 past season amounted to 150,000,000 

 lbs., which would require 600,000,000 

 lbs. of fresh fruits. California has 

 shipped in addition about 230,000,000 

 lbs. Mr. Glen writes, "California's fruit 

 crop is immense, and yet the industry is 

 in its infancy. The market is extending 

 as rapidly as the crop is increasing, 

 because a regular supply of prime fruit 

 creates a demand. Mind and capital 

 are united in California fruit production. 

 Careful selection and packing is the rule 

 when shipments are made. The average 

 results are satisfactory. Ontario fruit 

 growers have no greater difficulties to 

 contend with than those of California, 

 and they are nearer to the world's best 

 markets. 



Crimson Rambler is the greatest 

 rose that has been introduced in modern 

 times. It may not be hardy everywhere, 

 though I have not heard of any place 

 where it is not so. It is distinct in 

 growth and in manner of blooming. 

 The third year after planting it will 

 make canes from eight to fifteen feet in 

 length, and at the base will be nearly as 

 thick as a broom handle. It blooms in 

 clusters composed of large numbers of 



double flowers about the size of a double 

 cherry blossom. It blooms only once 

 a year, it is true, but it is a grand sight 

 for three weeks or a month after it com- 

 mences to flower. The flowers are a 

 bright cheerful shade of crimson, and it 

 has a very telling effect in the landscape, 

 no matter whether the garden wherein 

 it is planted is small or in the more pre- 

 tentious pleasure grounds of the wealthy. 

 — American Florist. 



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