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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



ing, St. Catharines; W. A. Emory, president 

 of the Provincial Association; E. J. Mahoney, 

 president of the Hamilton Association; E. D. 

 Smith, Winona, and A. W. Peart, of Freeman. 



Mr. McNeill, of the Fruit Division, Ottawa, 

 has been interviewing the fruit dealers of the 

 west. One dealer in Medicine Hat commented 

 as follows: "Our trade is going almost exclu- 

 sively to British Columbia. The western men 

 grow better stuff, gra4e it more uniformly, use 

 better packages, settle claims more promptly, 

 and are in every way better business men than 

 eastern fruit growers." 



A report from Dominion Fruit Inspector 

 Wartman, Montreal, states that the keeping 

 quality of California Tragedy plums is some- 

 thing wonderful. Three specimens taken from 

 different boxes of a car lot consigned to Glas- 

 gow via Montreal, wei'e put in a drawer in his 

 desk where a thermometer ranged from 70 to 80 

 degrees. After 10 days the plums were unwrappad 

 from the soft fpaper and found to be in sound 

 condition. These plums could easily be placed 

 on the Glasgow market in perfect condition 

 when the temperature during the ocean voyage 

 is kept at 35 degrees. 



Where Damage Occurs. — I believe sending un- 

 ripe, uncolored, immature fruit to the old coun- 

 try markets does more damage to the fruit 

 growers of this country than almost any other 

 Infraction of the act to prevent frauds in pack- 

 ing fruit. — (H. J. Scripture, Brighton, Ont. 



Quebec Fruit Growers Meet 



The summer meeting of the Pomological and 

 Fruit Growers' Society of Quebec was held at 

 Village de Mont St. Hilaire, August 23 and 24. 



The meetings were ably presided over by Mr. 

 Fisk, and Mr. Chapais did excellent work as in- 

 terpreter. On Thursday noon Mr. A. McNeill, 

 Chief of the FYuit Division, Ottawa, arrived, 

 and the afternoon was given over to a general 

 discussion and to a visit to a neighboring or- 

 chard. The various sessions were fairly well 

 attended, especially that of Wednesday even- 

 ing, when Prof. F. A. Waugh gave an interest- 

 ing address on Flower Culture. The discus- 

 sions were w'ell sustained and to the point. 



The programme included addresses on the 

 following subjects : " Planting of fruit trees, 

 care necessary to be taken. Fruit cultivation 

 along the Gulf of 'St. Lawrence " — G. Reyneaud, 

 Horticulteur, La Trappe, Que. ; " Plums " — R. 

 Brodie, Westmount, Que. ; " Results following 

 severe winter of 1903-4, and last winter upon 

 tender varieties of fruit trees " — R. W. Shep- 

 herd, Como, Que. ; " The Strawberry Leaf Rust" 

 —J. C. Chapais, St. Denis, Que.; paper (subject 

 not named) — N. E. Jack, Chateauguay Basin, 

 Que. ; " Notes on fruit meeting in western New 

 York and Vergennes, Vt." — Wm. Craig, Abbots- 

 ford, Que., and "Some mistakes made in the 

 past in the planting and after treatment of 

 apple orchards in the province of Quebec " — 

 Volunteers. 



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