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Notes and Comments. 



To Grow the Big Squash. — Mr. Warnock writes that the hills should 

 be fourteen inches deep, instead of six inches, as described in volume X\'I., 

 page 423. 



The Committee on New Fruits for 1894, consist of Messrs. A. McD. 

 Allen, Leslie ; D. W. Beadle, 450 Markham Street, Toronto ; and Mr. John 

 Craig, Horticulturist of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. These gentle- 

 men are all experts, and are not easily puzzled in identifying varieties. It will 

 not be easy for any nurseryman to impose old fruits on them as new kinds. 



The Idaho Pear was shown by the State of Idaho in quantity. In the 

 opinion of one the jurors, it is identical with the Sheldon, but grown in Idaho it 

 is enlarged beyond recognition. Query ? Would the texture of the flesh be also 

 altered by the change of climate, for the flesh of the Sheldon is finer grained 

 than the Idaho. Has anyone fruited this pear in Ontario ? 



More frequent Communications from the readers of this journal are 

 invited. We desire to make this journal a record of experience in fruit culture 

 and floriculture, representing all parts of Ontario, and as far as possible, the 

 other provinces also. We have a large number of readers in Nova Scotia and 

 British Columbia, and notes of their work will be acceptable as well as of work 

 in our own province, and thus our journal will be indeed, what its name imports, 

 the Canadian Horticulturist. 



Revision of Assessment Act — Messrs. Beadle, Wellington, and Allan, 

 were appointed a committee to confer with the Minister of Agriculture, regard- 



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