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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The 25TH Annual Session of the Georgia 

 State Horticultural Society will be held at 

 Millidgeville, Ga., on Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day,. August 7th and 8th, 1901. 



Cold Storage on a large scale is pro- 

 posed in the County of Argenteuil, Quebec, 

 by capitalists of that Province, the object 

 being to preserve good products of farmers 

 with a view of their ultimate export. A 

 subsidy of $5,000 is asked of the Govern- 

 ment. 



The Report. — We regret to announce 

 that the Department of Agriculture has not 

 been able to bind the Report in cloth as 

 usual, for our members, having used the 

 money inprintingseveral thousand additional 

 copies for the members of the Farmers' In- 

 stitute. Our members will therefore receive 

 paper covered copies this year. 



The Apple Crop. — Recent reports indi- 

 cate a far worse apple prospect than at first 

 reported. The fruit has dropped continu- 

 ously until in orchards reported fair, the 

 prospects now are poor. Taking the word 

 " average " to mean from 40 to 60 per cent. ; 

 ' • under " to mean below 40 and *' over " to 

 mean over 60 per. cent. — the reports from 

 Ontario and from the middle and eastern 

 States all show a crop under the average if 

 indeed it should not be called poor to very 

 poor. The western apple belt, though a 

 little better, is still uniformly under the 

 averaofe. 



J. W. Bigelow, Esq,, president of the 

 Nova Scotia Fruit Growers' Association, has 

 issued the following bulletin respecting the 

 prospective apple crop : 



From the most reliable information obtain- 

 able, the apple crop generally is a compar- 



