SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 per year, entitling the subscriber to membership of the Fruit 

 Growers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Awnna.! 

 Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees. 



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Apple Exporters. — A meeting of apple exporters has recently been held 

 in the Board of Trade Rooms, Toronto, for the purpose of organizing for a better 

 system of conducting their business. Other countries are year by year becoming 

 stronger in opposition to us, and to hold our own against them concerted action 

 is necessary. One of the most important points is the fixing of a standard 

 by which buyers and exporters may buy and ship, as is done in grain and flour. 

 The government standard, in the opinion of Mr. Shuttleworth, as at present 

 constituted, is too high. 



The New Fruit Growers' Association in Quebec. — The programme 

 of the meeting of this Association was good. Some of the subjects dis- 

 cussed were : " Best Market Varieties of Apples," " Grape Culture," " Plum 

 Culture in the North," "Notes on the Varieties of Plums grown on the 

 Island of Montreal," " Will it pay to Continue Growing the Fameuse Apple," 

 " Fruit Packages," " Orchard Culture," etc. We wish this new enterprise great 

 success. 



The Pawpaw, or Custard, apple (Asimina triloba) the tree of which is 

 found in the Niagara Peninsula, is spoken of in the Rural Canadian as worthy of 

 experimentation. The fruit is four or five inches long, banana shape, and 

 grows in small clusters. The flesh is golden-yellow, soft and puply when ripe ; 

 and in parts where it is abundant it is made into pawpaw butter and pawpaw 

 fritters. It would probably succeed in a large section of Ontario, and in a 

 considerable area of British Columbia. Who knows what the cultivator and the 

 hybridist may do for this fruit ? 



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