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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



the stock planted here and imported from 

 Ontario or New Brunswick is the veriest 

 trash. We want to stop this imposture. 

 The Government is also asked to secure to 

 the Province a permanent exhibit of fruit, 

 something- that for educative purposes and 

 purposes of identification ought long ago to 

 have been established. And there were other 

 resolutions of great local utility. 



The appearance of a sample of Ontario 

 Stark kindly sent me by the indefatigable 

 Secretary of the F. G. A. of that Province, 

 was the cynosure of all eyes. We have 

 Starks of our own, so competent judges here 

 and in Nova Scotia say. They are grown 

 principally by Mr. Pigott, of Savage Harbor, 

 but they are not at all like the Ontario Stark 

 on exhibition. The difference of opinion on 

 this and other apples shows us how difficult 

 it is at times to identify some varieties in dif- 



ferent provinces. I have had a little ex- 

 perience in this line myself this fall. Three 

 apples were sent to three Ontario experts, 

 and no two of them agreed as to the kinds 

 and none of them were, in my opinion, cor- 

 rect in their decision. All here will watch 

 the verification process with a consuming 

 interest. 



We have elected our President Mr. Stew- 

 art, again ; he well deserved the compliment, 

 and about all the other officers. A good 

 man should be held when you get him ; we 

 have added many new members to our list 

 and that of the superb Horticulturist ; we 

 have awakened a new and absorbing interest 

 in our association all around, and now we 

 hope for a year with omnia fausta et felicia. 



A. E. Burke. 



Alberton, 



Prince Edward Island. 



A New Cherry Pest. — The Cherry mag- 

 got is a new and serious pest in New York. 

 During the past season many bushels of 

 fruit were ruined by this insect. The fly 

 lays its ^^^ on the skin, as the fruit begins 

 to turn red, and from this hatches a maggot 

 which eats its way to the pit, and is carried 

 off when the fruit is sold. The worst thing 

 about this disgusting pest is that it is so 

 hard to detect its presence. Some affected 

 fruits show a sunken place on one side, but 

 others appear perfectly free from injury, and 

 are sold to the consumer as sound fruit. 

 The protest comes mostly from the buyer, 

 after he has put the cherry in his mouth. 

 As yet, no satisfactory remedy or preventive 

 has been found. — R. N. Y, 



End of the Century not Yet.— Dear 

 Sir, I houp ye winna cut aff a twalmonth 

 fra the fag end o' the cent'ry, as a lot o' 



itherwise able men are tryin to dae. Shure- 

 ly the warld began wi' the year i, and the 

 end o' the first cent'ry was jist loo years, 

 nae mair an' nae less. Hoo then is that 

 1900 sidna hae the full compliment o' nine- 

 teen hunder years ? To cut aff the cent'ry 

 at the end o' 1899 wud mean that the warld 

 commenced in the year o, that is a year afore 

 it began. Noo, ye ken that a hunder times 

 naething is simply naething, and a saxpence 

 is worth a hunder times that, or as muckle 

 mair as ye like. This is nae gairdenin', but 

 I'm only writin' tae warn ye, because the 

 loss o' a haill twalmonth's produce oot o' 

 the gairden, and a twalmonth's waages tae 

 ilka gairdener wud mean a michty lot. By 

 the bye, that was a bonnie splatter at Edin- 

 bro' the ither week wi' the bubblyjock and 

 the haggis. A'body at the feast will noo be 

 strong eneuch to turn ower the dew leaf 

 we're aye hearin' about. — Tarn., in Garden- 

 ers Chronicles. 



