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ance of one another, if it could be done. As a means of accomplishing 

 this desirable object, Mr. Beadle, the Secretary of the Fruit Growers' 

 Association, has kindly consented to receive the names and addresses 

 of all parties wishing to form a botanical society. These names will 

 be published in, or on the covers of the Canadian Horticulturist, so 

 that it may be ascertained how many are in favor of a society, and 

 also in what parts of the Province they reside. It is to be hoped that 

 all parties who know anything of the science of botany, and who wish 

 to have a botanical society formed in this Province, will send in their 

 names to Mr. Beadle without delay. As one of the principal objects 

 of such a society would be to promote the scientific study of plants, 

 young people of both sexes who have any taste for botany would find 

 it quite an advantage to study in connection with an energetic well 

 managed society. 



THE QUINCE. 



BY EBENEZER DAY, ELORA. 



At the last meeting of the Fruit Growers' Association I notice the 

 statement that the quince will grow where the peach will. As some 

 of our members would like to try it, I will give my experience. Some 

 four or five years ago I planted a tree of both quince and peach, more 

 to test their hardiness than in the expectation of seeing them fruit. 

 The quince has received no damage whatever from frosts, and last year 

 it fruited for the first ; the year before, it blossomed but did not fruit. 

 The tree was sold to me for Eea's Mammoth. The peach I bought as 

 the Foster ; it blossomed the first year I planted it out, but has not 

 since. In the beginning of September of each year I cut it back, 

 leaving from eighteen inches to two feet of the year's growth, but every 

 spring it has been frozen back to within a few inches of the trunk ; it 

 makes from three to seven feet growth each year. Both are grown in 

 open ground. Several parties here have tried the peach, but liave had 

 no better luck than myself. Don't know of any that have tried the 

 quince, but think that if protected by a house or a close board fence 

 from the north and west, there is not any more difficulty in fruiting the 

 quince than the apple. 



