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Cutting Prices — Canadians will be glad of the success of one of our 

 members, Mr. H. H. Groff, of Simcoe, in winning the Florists' Exchange prize 

 of $5 in gold, for the best essay on Cutting Prices on new and valuable varieties 

 of plants. 



New Canadian Nozzle. — The Holmes & Halliday spray pump makers 

 have sent us a sample of their new nozzle, which appears to combine several 

 good points and is very easy of adjustment. It will receive a test at the Spray 

 Pump exhibition at Grimsby, on April 2nd. 



The Robena Peach was recommended by the U. S. pomologist ; so we 

 wrote to the originator. Dr. Taylor, of Washington about it. He says he had 

 no thought until recently of propagating it, and has no trees for sale. He further 

 states that the parent tree is but six years old. It bears profitably ; is loaded 

 down with delicious fruit, freestone, and of rich color, each autumn. 



Frame Work for Spraying Trees. — An illustration is going the rounds 

 of the press which shows two sprayers caged on an elevated platform, while one 

 man below drives the team. Surely the inventor has never been in an orchard 

 or he would be aware of the difificulty of getting such a tower through among the 

 limbs of an orchard of large trees, and the danger to the men should the horses 

 take fright at the spray. The picture represents an absurd idea, and light 

 bamboo poles to elevate the nozzle such as are used at Maplehurst are much 

 safer and more practicable. 



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