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

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

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



REMirrANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon 

 the address label. 



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Refrigerator Service. — The Dominion Minister of Agriculture has a 

 scheme for a most extended system of Cold Storage service for conveying our 

 perishable products to the British markets. It is said to include refrigerator 

 car service on railways to central places for export to Great Britain. Plans are 

 under consideration for special cars for this work. The scheme includes special 

 cold storage accommodation on shipboard also, so that we have great hope of 

 a new era of prosperity through the enlargement of our markets. 



Why don't more of our readers take enough interest in this Journal to 

 write for it ? So many of them have items of experience to give, that would be 

 of general interest. Why don't the members of our affiliated Horticultural 

 Societies write about their successes or failures with flowers ? 



The Directors of the Grimsby Horticultural Society met about November 

 I St and decided to have a Chrysanthemum show next year. A contract is being 

 made with a florist to grow them during the winter, pinching them back, and 

 transplanting them into 5 inch pots, so that members cannot fail in securing 

 bloom from them. Each member is to receive five different varieties. 



Coal Ashes are useful as a bed in which to set potted plants, and rooting 

 cuttings ; as artificial soil, with plant food added ; and for experimental work in 

 nitrogenous fertilizers. 



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