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large membership for the present year. Will the 

 old members kindly renew the subscription before 

 the 15th of Feb., and select their premium for the 

 year 1901, and all who wish to become members 

 will please call on the Secretary, .Mr. A. W. Prin- 

 gle, as soon as convenient, so that they may have 

 their names on the list and thereby secure the full 

 benefit of the premium to be distributed for the 

 present year. Mr. C. Waite is authorized to re- 

 ceive subscriptions. 



COHOUKG Horticultural Society. — The an- 

 nual meeting of the Coburg Horticultural Society 

 was held in the Town Council Chamber according 

 to statute. 



The Secretary, H.J. Snelgrove, read the report 

 of the Directors. The society last year purchased 

 their flower bulbs in Holland, and the Directors 

 recommend that the same be done this year, as 

 the experiment had proved very succes.sful. The 

 Secretary was representative to the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association, and succeeded in securing 

 the meeting of the Association at Cobourg next 

 year. 



On motion of Mayor Huycke, seconded by Mr. 

 Barker, the report was adopted, and a vote of 

 thanks tendered to the Secretarj^ 



Mr. D. Denton, Treasurer, reported receipts for 

 the year. $223 ; expenditures, $221.42. 



The Society then proceeded to the election of 

 oflficers. 



The Secretary said he had received a communi- 

 cation from Mr. Woolverton, stating that the 

 Fruit Growers' Association could not j^et promise 



to send out lecturers this year. Rut Mr. C. C. 

 James, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, had kindly 

 promised that he would address the Society at an 

 early date. 



Mr. Denton spoke about the spring distribution, 

 and he thought each member should report upon 

 the plants received by them. Instead of getting 

 all they could for the money, they should get the 

 rarest and latest varieties. 



Mr. Snelgrove gave a short report of the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' meeting at Brantford. He said 

 the convention was composed of about 200 of the 

 best men in the province. He wished to get the 

 names of the fruit growers of this county, so as to 

 invite them to attend the meeting, which will be 

 held in November. 



Major MacNachtan said it would be well to 

 appoint a deputation to wait upon the Counties' 

 Council, and get them interested. This was a 

 matter that interested all fruit growers' very much. 



The President, Vice-Presidents and Secretary 

 were appointed a committee to wait upon the 

 Counties' Coimcil. 



The following officers were elected by the Dir- 

 ectors •• 



-Secretary— Major Snel.grove. 



Treasurer— D. Denton. 



Note — Since the above meeting at which my 

 letter was read, arrangements have been com- 

 pleted with the Department of Agriculture by 

 which a regular lecturer, andperhaps twoof them, 

 will be sent annually to address our affiliated 

 societies. L. Woolverton. 



OUR BOOK TABLE. 



The Principles of Vegetable Gardening, by 

 L. H. Bailey, pp. 458, New York. The McMillan 

 Co.. 190 1. Price, $1 25. 



This is another addition to that excellent Rural 

 Science Series, edited by Prof. L. H. Bailey, of 

 Cornell University. Science is progressive, and 

 books written j^ears ago upon fruit and flower 

 culture are now becoming antiquated in many 

 particulars. Prof. Bailey's works on the other 

 hand are fresh arid up to date ; besides they 

 classify all information in such a manner as to be 

 of the greatest .service to the cultivator. The 

 book is divided into two general parts : Part ist. 

 General View ; part 2nd, Vegetable Garden 

 Crops : Part ist includes the layout of the planta- 

 tion, glass, soil and treatment, tools, seed, man- 

 agement, working and storing ; part 2nd. Root 

 crops, Tuber crops. Bulb crops, Cole crops, Pot 

 Herb crops. Salad crops. Pulse crops, Solanace- 

 ous crops, Cucurbitous crops, Sweet Corn, Sweet 

 Herbs, Perennial crops. 



We highly commend this work to ourjreaders. 



Farmers' Guide to Fertilizers and their serNnces, 

 published by German Kali Works, 91 Nassau 

 street. New York. 



Reports. — Michigan "Horticultural Society for 

 1899. Missouri Horticultural Society for 1900. 



Central Experimental Farm, Bull. 36. Results 

 obtained in 1900 from trial of plots of grain, fod- 

 der corn, field roots and potatoes, bv Wm. Saun- 

 ders, L. L. D., Director of Experimental Farm. 



CATALOGUES. 



Fruits, Etc. — The 1899 supplement to New 

 Creations in Fruits and Flowers, Luther Burbank, 

 Santa Rosa, Cal. Horticultural Establishment, 

 Baltet Bros., Troyes, (Aube) France. Emerald 

 Plum, History, Description, etc., E. D. Smith, 

 Winona. Dominion Nurseries and Fruit Farms, 

 St. Catharines, Ont., 1901, Smith &- Reed. Gra- 

 ham's Annual Wholesale Price List, A. W. Gra- 

 ham, St. Thomas, Ont. Northern Grown Fruit 

 and Ornamental Trees, J. H. Wismer, Port Elgin, 

 Ont. Central Nurseries. 21st Annual. A. G. Hull 

 & Sons, St. Catharines. Choice Strawberry Plants, 

 Chas. H. Snow, Gumming Bridge, Ont. Grape 

 Vines, Lewis Roesch, Fredonia, N. Y. Green's 

 Nursery Co , Catalogue, Spring, 1901, Rochester, 

 N. Y. R. M Kellogg's Great Crops of Small 

 Fruits, Three Rivers, Michigan. J. G. Harrison 

 & Sons, Nurseries, 1901-, Berlin, Md. 



Ornamental Trees and Plants. — Thos. Mee- 

 han & Sons, Germantown, Pa., nurser^'^men and 

 landscape gardeners. J. Gammage & Sons, Lon- 

 don, Ont,, Plant Novelties. Gladiolus Trade Price 

 List, Geo. E. Dickson, i Broad wav, N. \' . 



