The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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The Waterloo Society this year consists of 125 members, who each pay one 

 dollar only. For this small fee every member has received the Canadian 

 Horticulturist and all other the privileges of membership in the Fruit 

 Growers' Association of Ontario, as well as the additional privilege of a free 

 lecture on practical Horticulture by Dr. Beadle, of Toronto. Also their choice 

 of either of the following premiums : — ist. One tree each Wilder Early pear, 

 McLaughlin plum and Montgomery cherry. 2nd. One each spirea van 

 Houtti, Gen. Jacqueminot rose, and clematis paniculata. 3rd. Six cannas, 

 twenty gladioli, and two dahlias. 4th. Twelve house plants, assorted. And 

 each member is yet to receive twelve of the best hyacinth bulbs that can be 

 obtained. 



The improvements that have taken place in the cottage homes of Waterloo 

 during the past summer, through the influence of this Society, is very marked, 

 and gives ample proof that the plan of conducting the affairs of Horticultural 

 Societies, where every member receives an equal share of the advantages of 

 such associations, commends itself as being infinitely superior to the old system 

 of using all its money in holding a competitive exhibition, whereby about one- 

 tenth of its members generally share between them ninety-nine per cent, of its 

 funds, while the remaining nine-tenths receive no advantages whatever. 



Lindsay, August, i8g6. Thos. Beall. 



A HAND APPLE PICKER. 



As the season for picking winter apples is now on, orchardists will find the 

 illustrated picker of great service in 

 reaching the fruit on extended limbs. 

 One man can stand under a tree and 

 pick nearly all the fruit from the tree, 

 including the hardest to get at — that 

 on the ends of the branches. The 

 frame is made of heavy wire, or light 

 round iron, and a sack of heavy cloth 

 sewn to the frame, leaving the slots 

 at each end so that an apple will be 

 free to enter the sack. Then all you 

 have to do is to push or pull, and 

 the apple drops into the sack. I 

 have one with a fourteen-foot and another with a six-foot handle. The wire 

 from A to B is eight inches wide, from C to D ten inches. The slots at C and 

 D are three inches long and an inch wide. The handle or pole may be of any 

 desired length. — American Agriculturist. 



FlO. 1000. — FOR PICKING fruit WITH0I7T 

 BRUISING. 



