THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



fruit." Mr. Brown has taken great interest in fruit and fruit culture, 

 and has been at considerable expense to procure fruit from Ontario, of 

 different varieties, in order to test their quality, as compared with 

 other fruit to be had in the Nova Scotia markets. Having become 

 satisfied that the apples grown in Ontario were better in quality than 

 those of Nova Scotia, he has spared no pains in bringing them to the 

 notice of consumers, and has earned the thanks of Ontario fruit growers 

 for opening up a market for our apples. Should any of the readers of 

 the Canadian Horticulturist feel disposed to take advantage of this 

 opening, tliey will do well to remember that only choice fruit, of the 

 very first quality in every respect, and put up with care, so as not to 

 be bruised in transit, will command attention either in the Nova 

 Scotia or English markets. 



ON EAISING FINE FEUITS FROM SEED. 



BY JAS. DOUGALL, WINDSOR NURSERIES, ONT. 

 (From New York Weekly Witness.) 



Few people know how easy and pleasant it is to raise new and fine 

 varieties of fruits and floWers from seeds, or more would try to do it. 

 Many are no doubt deterred from trying, owing to tlie importance that 

 liorticulturists of late have placed on artificial impregnation and 

 hybridization of the flowers, which take more trouble and time than 

 most people can spare, some hybridizers going so far as to say that no 

 good fruits can be raised worthy of notice unless by this plan. This 

 is a mistaken idea, for I venture to say that better varieties can be 

 raised from planting the seeds taken from the best varieties in gardens 

 where no inferior varieties are grown, than by artificial impregnation, 

 the bee and other insects being natural agents for carrying the pollen 

 from flower to flower, and intermixing it so as to create new varieties 

 in a more successful manner than man can do. 



I do not wish to deter any who have the skill and leasure from 

 raising fruits by hybridization ; some acquisitions have been made in 

 that way and further experiments may, and no doubt will, be useful 

 and beneficial. My present aim is to induce those who have not this 

 leasure and skill to plant the seeds of their best fruits, and in due time 

 in a few years they will reap their reward in many new and excellent 



