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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Grapes for Export. — The Department of 

 Agriculture at Ottawa is making arrange- 

 ments to push forward the experimental 

 export of grapes from the Niagara district 

 this autumn. About 100,000 lbs. of Rogers 

 black and red varieties will be forwarded. 



A Basket Picnic of the Halton Farmers' 

 Institute and Women's Institute, was to be 

 held on the farm of A. W. Peart, our experi- 

 menter, on Victoria Day. Lunch was to be 

 served at noon and a stroll through the 

 orchard was to occupy part of the afternoon. 

 We fear the storm has postponed this out- 

 ing, which is but the beginning of a series 

 which will follow. 



Gillett's Lye. — Mr. E. W. Gillett writes : 

 " We are getting good reports from all 

 sections and are confident our goods are 

 first-class for the purpose of spraying, when 



used properly. While it may be true 

 that the majority of brands of concentrated 

 lye is nothing but caustic soda, it does not 

 follow that that is true of Gillett's goods." 



About fifty varieties of the finest French 

 cherries have been imported for trial at 

 Maplehurst. They came from the famous 

 nurseries of Chas. Baltet, Troyes, France. 



O. M. A.— Mr. G. B. Bracket, U.S. Pom- 

 ologist, has just been decorated for conspicu- 

 ous services at the Paris Exposition, with 

 the ribbon of the Order of Merite Agricole. 



The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Park and Out-door Association will be 

 held Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 

 June 26, 27 and 28, 1901, in Milwaukee, 

 Wis. The secretary is Mr. W. H. Manning, 

 1 146 Tremont building, Boston, Mass. 



