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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Cold Storage. — A magazine devoted to 

 Cold Storage, published monthly in New York, 

 contains Prof. Robertson's details for construc- 

 tion of cold storage house in December number. 



Liquid Air promises soon to be commercial 

 product, purchasable by the gallon or by the 

 barrel ! A splendid plant for its manufacture 

 has been built in New York City, with a ca- 

 pacity of about 800 gallons a day. 



Florists and Agricultural Shows — We 

 find the professional florist slow to exhibit at 

 our amateur shows. If there is a long list of 

 money prizes he will come to carry them away, 

 but as for showing with a view of educating the 

 public in the .culture and growth of flowers for 

 itself he is not in favor of it. Now we think he 

 is making a serious mistake, for the more inter- 

 est the ordmary housekeeper takes in window 

 plauts the greater the demand for the products 



of the professional. Sanders, addressing the 

 Chicago Florist's Club, said : 



If my assertion is correct, that shows are an 

 educator of the masses to love flowers, they should 

 be encouraged in every way by those making a 

 living from the sale of all agricultural products, 

 which you see takes in all kinds, from state and 

 county fairs, exhibits at horticultural and florists' 

 societies' monthly meetings, up to the grand 

 yearly fall show of flowers. Suppose for a mo- 

 ment, in your estimation, a good many of the ex- 

 hibits are rather tame affairs. Do your share 'to 

 improve them. Surely none ^v^ll dispute, if a 

 flower show, in whatever form encourages a taste 

 for flowers, and causes more to be used, the grower 

 can have no kick coming. Has it not been a fact 

 at every one of our fall shows, prices for all good 

 stock rise during that week, however dull the trade 

 has been before. This being so we opine the 

 wholesale man is equally benefited, as he gets 

 bigger commission by the booming of his trade. 



The San Jose Scale was the chief subject 

 up for discussion at a meeting of the Niagara 

 Peninsula Fruit Growers at St. Catharines on 

 the 15th of December. A previous meeting 

 had met and adjourned without reaching any 



