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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Apple Packing will be exemplified at our 

 Cobourg- meeting by some of the Brighton 

 apple packers. 



Mr. C. C. James, Deputy Minister of 

 Ag-riculture, has kindly promised to give an 

 address at our Annual Meeting at Cobourg. 



ber. We are securing excellent talent, and 

 expect to have a live program. Members of 

 the association everywhere, are invited to 

 send in sugg-estions for our program. 



" Rose Growing by Amateurs" will be 

 introduced for discussion at our Cobourg 

 meeting by Mr. J. G. Jackson, gardener at 

 Port Hope. 



The First Car Load of Bartlett Pears 

 left Grimsby on September 9th, 1901, con- 

 sisting of 1,120 cases, and the second on 

 September 16th, containmg about 600. 



The Canadian Horticultural Associa- 

 tion met in the city hall, London, on the 5th 

 of August. Delegates were present frnm 

 Montreal, Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, 

 Stratford, Chatham and other places. 



Horticultural Societies are invited 

 each to send a delegate to represent their 

 society at our Annual Meeting-, and Mr. 

 Creelman proposes that we give one session 

 to the discussion of subjects of especial inter- 

 est to the societies. 



The Annual Meeting at Cobourg has 

 been fixed for Wednesday, Thursday and 

 Friday, the i8th, 19th and 20th of Decem- 



The Barry Medal has been awarded by 

 the Western New York Horticultural Society 

 to C. C. Hooper, Rochester, for his new red 

 currant " Perfection," a cross between Fay 

 and White Grape. It is said to combine the 



