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capable of evaporating 50 bushels per day can be bought for $75 to $125, and 

 the cost of evaporating will average one and a-half cents a pound, and five or 

 six pounds can be made from a bushel of apples. 



When there are other means at hand of using the ordinary stock, it is easy 

 to make up one's mind to store only the very best grade. According to the 

 American Agriculturist, immense quantities of the very finest grade of apples 

 are now going into cold storage in New York State, in the belief that the market 

 will be better in March and April. Co-operative cold storage houses should be 

 constructed and operated on the same business lines as co-operative cheese 

 factories, and if fruit growers would thus combine in the marketing of their 

 fruit, English buyers could as easily be attracted to American cold storage 

 houses as to our American cheese markets. 



New Affiliated Horticultural Societies are being formed in several 

 places with the assistance o Mr. Thos. Beall, who thoroughly understands the 

 organization. In response to a letter from one of our members, Dr. J. S. Mac- 

 Callum, of Smith's Falls, Mr. Beall visited that place, and reports the formation 

 of a strong society. Over one hundred names have been sent in to us from that 

 place. Societies are likely to be formed at Orangeville, Thornbury, Meaford 

 and Durham. 



The Chrysanthemum Show at the O. A. C, Guelph, is elegant. On the 

 1 8th inst. the writer was shown through the College Greenhouses by the Prof, 

 of Horticulture, Mr. H. L. Hutt, B. S. A., and was surprised at the great extent 

 and variety of the chrysanthemum exhibit. Mr. Hutt has a genius for collecting, 

 and is making his greenhouse collection so varied, that it not only attracts 

 numerous visitors, but is becoming one of the best means of instruction to his 

 students, both concerning the various kinds of flowers, and their respective 

 treatment. He has one xhibition about 120 varieties of chrysanthemums alone ; 

 and among them we notice first-class specimens of very showy varieties. 



About the 21st inst. the Canadian High Commissioner, Sir Donald Smith 

 received the following note from the Queen's Private Secretary, Lieut.-Col. Sir 

 Arthur J. Bigge, dated Windsor Castle : — " I am commanded by the Queen to 

 beg you to be good enough to arrange that her Majesty's best thanks be con- 

 veyed to those fruit growers of the neighborhood of Hamilton, Ont, who kindly 

 offered, through you, for her Majesty's acceptance, a beautiful consignment of 

 their year's crop, which the Queen is glad to hear has been unusually large 

 and excellent in quality. The cases were received yesterday by the Master of 

 the Household. Their contents were in perfect condition and some of the fruit 

 served at her Majesty's dinner proved excellent. Thanking you for the trouble 

 you have taken to ensure the speedy delivery of the fruit, I am, etc" 



