NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



to be a member with us, they could retain 

 the usual commission of 20 cents a member 

 for their own treasury. Then each member 

 would receive our journal, plants distributed, 

 reports, etc., our lecturer would visit their 

 meetings, and their proceedings would be 

 published by us. 



people from the various parts of the city to 

 the grounds. 



Fruit in Niagara District. — Mr. E. D. 

 Smith of Winona, reports to the Toronto 

 Globe that the prospect for peaches, pears, 

 grapes and other fruits in the Niagara dis- 

 trict is unusually encouraging for the coming 

 season. The export to the Northwest shows 

 great possibilities for Ontario fruit growers 

 so soon as varieties are grown which will 

 endure long shipments. It is not the pack- 

 ing that our Winni'peg friends need to 

 complain of with regard to Ontario fruit, 

 but the fact that the varieties grown in 

 California are better for long shipments 

 than ours. This export trade in tender 

 fruits is a new development, and in future 

 this considsration must largely govern 

 varieties planted. 



Mr. E. D. Smith states that last year he 

 alone shipped two hundred car loads of 

 fruit from this district, via Hamilton & 

 Grimsby electric road and Canadian Pacific 

 Railway. 



Pan-American. — The transportation fac- 

 ilities would seem to be ample for all possible 

 demands of the mammoth crowds which are 

 expected. The entire street railway system 

 of Buffalo, driven by the power of Niagara 

 Falls, is so laid out as to secure direct com- 

 munication frorn all parts of the city to the 

 Exposition grounds. At the northern boun- 

 dary of the grounds there has been built a 

 fine steam railway station. A two-track 

 steam belt line encircles the City of Buffalo 

 reaching this station, and all the steam rail- 

 roads centering in Buffalo have access to 

 these tracks. This means of transportation 

 will be extensively used, both for excursion 

 trains from out the citv and for conveying 



Mr. Thomas Meehan, the eminent bot- 

 anist and nurseryman who is at the head 

 of the firm that publishes that high class 

 journal known as Meehan's Monthly, is well 

 represented to our readers tn the accompan- 

 ing likeness. Born in London, Englatid in 

 1826 he is one of the oldest living members 

 of the American Association for the ad- 

 vancement of science, and his election to 

 membership of the Royal Wernerian Society 

 of Edinburg before he was of age was an. 

 honor unusual to one so voung;. 



Fid. 2068. Thomas Meehan. 



His literary work is quite voluminous, but 

 his greatest and most important undertaking 

 is the " Flowers and Ferns of the United 

 States " each illustrated with a magnificent 

 colored plate. This was first published by 

 Prang & Co., of Rochester,, but is now 

 continued in Meehan's Monthlv. 



