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that are very desirable : Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of America:; 

 "Warder's American Pomology ; Barry's Fruit Garden ; Beadle's Fruit, 

 Flower, and Kitchen Garden ; Fulton's Peach Culture; Quinn's Pear 

 Culture ; Fuller's Grape Culturist ; and Fuller's Small Fruit Culturist. 

 The Best Tomato. — For two seasons past the profit of tomato 

 culture has been exceedingly small ; but in my experience the Hatha- 

 way's Excelsior is the most profitable kind we have. On one occasion 

 our commission merchant in Guelph wrote us, "I can sell your tomatoes 

 at ninety cents per bushel, w^hen other kinds are being sold in the 

 market for fifty cents, because of the great superiority of the Hatha- 

 way for table use." For canning, too, it has no superior. The mana- 

 ger of the canning works here said he could afford to j)ay more for 

 Hathaways than for any other variety, because there was less waste 

 about it, and its round, smooth skin peels so much easier and so much 

 more quickly than does that of the wrinkled kinds. 



We tried the Acme last season, and found that it poseessed a fine 

 shape and a good flavor, and exhibited a peculiar bright pink color ; 

 but it does not seem to be any earlier than the Hathaway, and it is 

 not so firm. 



TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIA> 

 TION OF ONTARIO. 



BY J. C, AULTSVILLE. 



I am pleased to be one of them. Referring you to our Editor's ad- 

 dress as we have it on the fly-sheet of his last issue, we set him down 

 as a remarkably modest man. Most managers of periodicals, at the 

 year's end, tell us what they have done, and what they mean to do 

 — of course a higger thing. Our modest Editor just tells us the 

 December No. closes the volume, and politely asks us to renew our 

 subscriptions. That's business like. I take it for granted that we 

 have all read the pages of our little menthly, and think you'll all 

 acrree with me that we have had in them value far more than our dol- 

 lar subscription. It's our part, however, to help the work. If every 

 <one of us will try and enlist another subscriber, (that's not hard to do, 

 J ^ot three last year with little trouble), it will strengthen the hands 



