SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 per year, entitling the subscriber to membersMp ot the Fruit 

 Orowers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Annual 

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



REMITTANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts wiU be acknowledged upon 

 the address label. 



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Waterloo Horticultural Society has now sent in to us 121 names for 



1896. 



The Dry Rot has seriously affected the quality of the Baldwins and Kings 

 in Southern Ontario during the past season. 



The Port Colborne Horticultural Society has elected the following 

 officers for 1896 : President, E. O. Boyle, ist Vice, I.. G. Carter, 2nd Vice, W. 

 W. Knisley, Secretary, D. W. McKay, Treasurer, A. E. Augustine, and nine 

 Directors. 



The McIntosh Red was shown at the Rochester Fruit Growers' Meeting 

 for Princess Louise. Evidently these two varieties have become mixed by some 

 of our nurserymen. 



More about Flowers. — Since we have so many Horticultural Societies in 

 affiliation it seems inrportant that we give a little more space in the journal to 

 floriculture. We have, indeed, received requests from some of the societies that 

 we should do so. We shall be glad to comply, but we must always place the 

 cultivation of the fruit garden first, because the larger portion of our readers are 

 more interested in fruit than in flower growing. 



Cold Storage for Shipboard. — Ice storage is apparently too precarious 

 for use on shipboard for any long voyage, besides being very expensive. Dr. 

 Perkins, of California, has invented a process called the " Perkins' Sterilized Air 



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