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THE CANADIAN HORriCULTURISl . 



THE WHITBY MEETING. 



S USUAL, our annual meeting last 

 1^ month was well sustained by the 

 presence of the foremost fruit 

 ..^^^^ growers in the province, the lead- 

 ing spirits in horticulture from our Agri- 

 cultural College and the Central Ex- 

 perimental Farm, and by some representa- 

 tives from our sister societies. 



Fig. 1725. W. A. Whitney, Iroqouis. 



The meetings of the first day were held 

 in the City Council chamber, and were 

 called to order by Vice-President W. M. 

 Orr, of Fruitland, the President, Mr. W. E. 

 Wellington, being absent on a tour to Great 

 Britain. 



Fruits Hardy along the St. Lawrence 

 were treated on by W. A. Whitney, of 

 Iroquois, who drew attention to the excel- 

 lent keeping qualities of the Fameuse and 

 other varieties grown in that district. Next 

 to the Fameuse he mentioned Mcintosh 



Red as one of the hardiest, and valuable 

 also for size, beauty and quality for desert, 

 but it drops early and is subject to the apple 

 scab. The Ontario promises to succeed, 

 and the Scarlet Pippin, which originated at 

 Maitland, is a most desirable new variety, 

 the originator, Mr. Harold Jones, having 

 found a special demand for it as a dessert 

 apple in Montreal. The Wealthy is also a 

 great success, being hardy and free from 

 scab, but must be thinned to secure good 

 size. 



Few pears will succeed ; the Kieffer and 

 the Flemish Beauty being among them ; of 

 plums he spoke highly of Lombard, Saun- 

 ders, Glass and Yellow Egg, having been 

 grown with success. 



Mr. E. C. Beman, of Newcastle, spoke of 

 pears for the professional and amateur, giv- 

 ing a technical description of several kinds, 

 and was followed by our new director for 

 Bruce and Grey, Mr. J, I. Graham, of Van- 

 deleur, on Irrigation and Top Grafting. 

 This gentleman has natural facilities for turn- 

 ing water on his orchards, and has utilized 

 them in such a way as to produce the finest 

 sized fruit, even in the seasons of greatest 

 drouth. He had also some excellent results 

 in top grafting which drew out an extended 

 address from Mr. G. T. Powell, a noted 

 horticultural lecturer from New York State, 

 from which address we give the following 

 notes : 



By Top Working in propagation we can 

 bring a Spy in earlier bearjing, and make 

 the King more productive. The wood of 

 Spy is exceedingly hard, as is shown in the 

 work of pruning this variety ; it therefore 

 forms an excellent stock for the more suc- 

 culent wood of the King, Special selection 

 of scions is of far more importance than usu- 

 ally supposed. Nursery men usually cut 

 scions from young trees, which are in the 

 wood producing age, and consequently this 



