34 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



ing the discouragement to the fruit industry under the present Act, because 

 orchard land is taxed so much higher than farm land. This seems unfair, in 

 view of the many fruit failures, and the long years before an orchard begins to 

 yield any returns. 



Our Province is not behind Nova Scotia in her provisions for teaching 

 horticulture, for the Agricultural College at Guelph, has always given more or 

 less attention to the study of that art, and at the beginning of the present College 

 year the Minister of Agriculture has added to the teaching staff a Professor of 

 Horticulture, in the person of Mr. H. L. Hutt, a graduate of the College, who 

 is a native of the Niagara t)istrict. 



Some Private Exhibits of great value were made by fruit growers in the 

 Province of Quebec, in addition to the display made by the Province itself, viz. : 

 R. Brodie, Montreal; Wm. Craig & Son, Abbotsford, P. Q. ; J. J. Gibb, Como; 

 George Copeland, Thelford ; W. Johnston, Gran by ; Abbotsford Fruit Grower's 

 Association ; Missisquoi Horticultural Society ; George B. Edwards, Covey Hill, 

 Que. For such details our readers are referred to the official list, not yet pub- 

 lished. 



Nova Scotia Fruit Growers have established a Horticultural School in 

 connection with Acadia College. A grant of $50 per scholar has been made 

 by the N. S. Legislature, for the support of the work. The Association has 

 secured the services of Prof. E. E. Faville, graduate of Ames Horticultural 

 School, Iowa, and the course is to last during six months of each year. Fruit 

 growers generally are invited to take advantage of this course of training in 

 scientific horticulture. 



Many encouraging words have come to hand from our subscribers. In 

 response we beg their assistance in making this journal what it should be, the 

 leading journal of its class in America. We shall be glad of illustrations of 

 trees, plants, fruits, flowers, lawns, gardens, etc., either drawn with pencil or 

 photographed, especially when accompanied by descriptions. We will have 

 them engiaved in due time, and they will add very much to the attractiveness 

 of our pages. We hope that our volume for 1894 will be of more practical 

 value than any preceding one. 



The British Columbia Fruit Exhibit at the World's Fair, contained 

 samples from many different sections of that Province, proving beyond doubt 

 its capabilities for fruit growing. Mr. A. Clemes, Spence's Bridge, sent us six- 

 teen varieties of apples and four of plums ; Mr. Thomas Sharpe, of the Experi- 

 mental Farm at Agassiz, sent on fifteen varieties of plums, and twenty-two of 

 apples, a fine collection, which in the table, page 4o4, Journal for 1893, is 



