THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



florist. For details of terms, write Mr. G. 

 C. Creelman, B. S. A., president of the O. 

 A. C, Guelph. 



Fig. 2750. Mr. G. A. Putnam, B.S.A., 



Superintendent Farmers' Institute. 



SINCE our work is so closely connected 

 with the farmers' institutes, our 

 readers will be pleased to have an introduc- 

 tion to Mr. George A. Putnam, B. S. A., 

 who has recently taken up the work of 

 superintendent of Farmers' Institutes for 

 Ontario. Mr. Putnam was born in Elgin 

 County in 1869, and spent his early years on 

 his father's dairy farm near Aylmer. He 

 was educated at the Aylmer High School 

 and at the Forest City Business College, 

 London, and from the latter institution be- 

 came in 1890 secretary to the Agricultural 

 College. While at the college he took up 

 the regular studies and received his degree 

 in the spring of 1900. 



Mr. Putnam is most familiar with details 

 of the organization of institutes, for under 

 Dr. Mills he managed all the details of the 

 work when the Ontario Institute branch was 

 first organized. 



Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Annual 

 Meeting at Bridgewater 



NEARLY a hundred fruit growers met 

 at Bridgewater on the 27th and 28th 

 of January and conducted an animated dis- 

 cussion on the fruit interests of the pro- 

 vince. A noticeable change was the retire- 

 ment from the presidency of Mr. J. W. 

 Bigelow, of Wolfville, who for twelve years 

 has so ably filled^ the position. A resolu- 

 tion was unanimously passed expressing the 

 high esteem in which he was" held by the 

 members, 



STANDARD VARIETIES OF APPI^ES. 



At this meeting our vice-presidenj;, Mr. 

 Alexander McNeill, of Ottawa, gave good 

 advice to inexperienced orchardists. He 

 advises (i) to select varieties combining 

 many good qualities; (2) to avoid novel- 

 ties, because they are seldom perma- 

 nent ; (3) to watch the tree agent and 

 resist him when he advises little planted 

 varieties ; (4) to cater to your market, 

 and if distant to plant good shipping 

 kinds, mainly good winter varieties ; 

 (5) to consider which of these will suc- 

 ceed best under the local conditions of one's 

 own farm. Mr. McNeill had written to 

 six apple exporters representing firms which 

 operate in all parts of Canada, asking them 

 separately to name the best paying varieties 

 of apples, taking one year with another, 

 from the exporter's point of view. All 

 named the Baldwin, five the Spy, four the 

 Golden Russet, four the King, four the Ben 

 Davis, four the Canada Red, three the 

 Mann, two the Cooper's Market, one the 

 Hubbardston. Prof. Macoun suggested 

 that records of individual trees as to age, 

 bearing, etc., be kept each year, thus finding 

 out what trees give the best results ; a 

 number of gentlemen, representing the 

 various fruit districts, were appointed to 

 keep these records. 



