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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Fungi. — Our readers who have been in- 

 terested in Dr. Hare's valuable articles on 

 the mushroom, will be pleased to know that 

 he has promised us several other articles to 

 follow this number. 



Paris Diplomas. — Some of our corres- 

 pondents are asking- when they will receive 

 the diplomas awarded at Paris. Let us re- 

 mind them that in the case of the Chicago 

 Exposition it was a year or two before these 

 came to hand, and further we are informed 

 that each copy must be paid for. 



Cold Storage facilities for fruit export 

 are likely to be made accessible to all at an 

 early date, now that success has been at- 

 tained in the season just passed. Shipments by 

 theLinde system of refrig-eration sent forward 

 under the direction of the Dairy Commis- 

 sioner, Mr. J. W. Robertson, and those in 

 Mr. Hanrahan's compartment sent forward 

 under the direction of the Hon. John Dryden, 



have arrived in Great Britain in perfect con- 

 dition, where not overripe when loaded at 

 Montreal. 



Fruit Growers are to be congratulated 

 on the prospect of an immediate opening of 

 an export trade in pears to Great Britain by 

 cold storage, by which we may expect the 

 prices even in our own markets will be ad- 

 vanced to a profitabe basis. 



The Commerce Shipment — It should 

 have been explained on page 499, of C. H. 

 volume XXin, that the shipment on the 

 Commerce was forwarded in the ordinary 

 cold storage compartment at a tempera- 

 ture guaranteed by the Dominion to be 

 constant between 36 and 40 F. The Tra- 

 der cold storage compartment was the 

 one in which Mr. Hanrahan's plans were 

 tried. It should be explained that the low 

 prices obtained for the first shipment of 

 grapes under the care of Prof. Robertson, 



