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A DOMINION JOURNAL. 



Sir, — Your kind offer to allow me an opportunity of occasionally ventilat- 

 ing myself on some kindred horticultural subject, is highly appreciated by me, 

 as I dabble a little in nearly every department of its many divisions, and by our 

 exchange of ideas we may profit. If you will bear with me now I will try and 

 lay before you in a roughly hewn out manner an idea which has been cropping 

 up in my mind at intervals, and which if practicable, would benefit the Can- 

 adian Horticulturist and all »the Canadian horticulturists as well. 



The scheme is to make the Canadian Horticulturist Canadian in its 

 broadest sense, and to extend its circulation all over the length and breadth of 

 our fair land. This, I think, might be accompUshed by something like the 

 following arrangement : We have in Quebec, as you have in Ontario, a Fruit 

 Growers' Association ; but we have no organ such as the Canadian Horticul- 

 turist. There is, as you are aware, a Fruit Growers' Association in Nova 

 Scotia. Now wherein would lie the objections to all the Provinces joining 

 interests with the Canadian Horticulturist in making it in reality, as in 

 name, the Canadian Horticulturist. In a word, let us have the provincial 

 departments under the charge of the different " Fruit Growers' Associations," 

 or of some one well qualified in the several Provinces to supply interesting 

 matter to the amount of two or three pages each week, with power to increase 

 the space as occasion required or the importance of the subject demanded. 

 With the above co-operative arrangement, and a weekly circulation, in my 

 opinion, a great advance would be achieved all along the line. I am sure I am 

 justified in stating that a weekly edition of the Canadian Horticulturist 

 would be considered a great boon, and would be very highly appreciated in this 

 part of our province as well as all over our country. The time too seems 

 opportune to advance the Canadian Horticulturist plea as an educating 

 medium, and by its appearance weekly instead of monthly, its usefulness in that 

 particular line would be certainly more than quadrupled. I think it would 

 most probably follow the established principle in many scientific instances, and 

 become sixteen times more beneficial, and surely that would be something worth 

 striving for. In submitting the above to you, I hope you will give it your con- 

 sideration, and bring the object foreshadowed into workable shape, because 

 union and co-operation in horticulture, as in all other affairs, is conducive to 

 strength. 



Another point of importance in a weekly edition would be its value as an 

 advertising medium. 



With some such federation of our horticultural forces, our possibilities in 

 the future can only be guessed. 



Hoping you can see your way to mature some such advantageous scheme 

 is the desire of Frank Roy, 



Corresponding Secretary of the Montreal Horticultural Society 



and Fruit Growers' Association of the Province of Quebec. 



