THE 



Canadian Horticulturist 



Vol. XiX. 



1896 



No. 3. 





WESTERN NEW YORK FRUIT GRO A^E^^S. 



HE meetings of the Western New York Horticultural Society bring 

 f: together the largest and most enthusiastic gathering of fruit 

 growers to be found anywhere in the world. Probably no coun- 

 try in the world contains so many enterprising fruit growers and 

 nurserymen, as Western New York. All this is due in a great 

 measure to the persevering industry of the late P. Barry, the 

 author of that excellent work entitled " Barry's Fruit Garden," 

 and one of the heads of the firm, so familiar to fruit growers all 

 the world over, Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry. For so many years 

 was Mr. Barry the president, and the guiding hand in the conduct 

 of this large Society, that we feel justified in giving him that prominence in our 

 journal, which he deserves as one of the direct benefactors of the present genera- 

 tion of fruit growers. At our special request, therefore, we have secured from 

 his son, Mr. W. C. Barry, the cuts which illustrate this article. 



The frontispiece is an admirable photograph of the nursery, in the suburbs 

 of Rochester, which was first established about fifty-six years ago, on about 

 1 5 acres of ground, and has since grown to cover over 500 acres. 



One important feature of Mr. Barry's work was in experimental fruit grow- 

 ing, a work which we in Ontario, are just beginning to undertake, under the 

 beneficent patronage of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. So long ago as 

 1846, Mr. Barry wrote : "Our purpose is, and has been since the formation of 

 our establishment, to make here in Western New York, a collection oj fruits 

 unsurpassed by any in the country, embracing every valuable varietyfof either 

 native or foreign origin, adapted to our soil and climate ; with this end in view. 



