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

 Srowers' 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 will be ackaowledged upon 

 th« address label. 



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A Blue Plum, about the size of Lombard, but of much better quality, 

 comes from Mr. A. M. Smith. This would appear to have value on account 

 of its earliness, ripening about July 15th this season. 



Samples of the Finest Early Wison Blackberries we have seen were 

 brought into this office on the loth Aug., 1896, by Mr. Charles Gethim, 

 fruit grower, Grimsby. Many of the berries measured i}( inches in length, and an 

 inch in width, and on the one branch we counted thirty berries. The variety is, 

 however, a little tender for our climate. 



Brandvgage and Oullin's Golden Gage Plums came to hand August 

 I St, from Mr. David Blackadder, Windsor, who has the stock of the late James 

 Dougall. The first is a rather small, but very productive yellow variety, with 

 Mr. Blackadder, and suitable for canning ; while the latter is a fine yellow 

 dessert plum of large size, and excellent quality. 



Pruning back Raspberry Canes. — In all our large market plantations 

 of Cuthbert raspberries, it has become a custom to severely cut back the young 

 wood in the growing season. This is certainly a great convenience in culti- 

 vating, as well as in gathering the fruit ; but the question is an open one 

 whether more fruit would not be gathered by leaving the canes to grow uncut 

 during the summer, and in spring cutting off merely the weak ends. There 

 is no doubt that the strong buds all the way up the cane will produce fruit, 

 and a large part of this is cut away by the usual custom of shortening in. 

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