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looking young trees as I ever saw. The year previous to getting the 

 Maples, I obtained some nuts of the Butternut; these I planted, and have 

 also transplanted a couple of times, and many are now ten and twelve 

 feet high; these are set intermediate with the Maples, and make a 

 most desirable looking lot of shade trees, and leafed out as if they had 

 never been moved. 



There, is however, this objection to the Butternut: it puts out its 

 leaves late in the spring, and drops them early in autumn. But the 

 nuts are valuable when young as a pickle, and when older, boys, and 

 some men, like them to, eat. The leaf is very feathery, and has a 

 graceful appearance not unlike the Palm. Further west and south I 

 would recommend the Sweet Chestnut; its leaves resemble the Beech, 

 but are of a darker green, and more glossy, and the nut has a certain 

 market value. 



REPORT ON MR. MOYER'S SEEDLING PEACH. 



BY ROBERT BURNET, LONDON, ONT. 



For three years past we have been annually favored with the 

 receipt of samples of the "Early Canada," a seedling peach raised by 

 Mr. Allen Moyer, of Jordan Station, G. W. R. of Canada. 



Two years ago the fruit was fully ripe on the first of August, this 

 season they are a little later. The "Early Canada" is a taking fruit, 

 bright in color, slashed with pink, and of a fair size. Its quality is 

 first rate, flavor delicious, and an almost perfect free stone. In this 

 last respect the "Early Canada" is fairly ahead of all other early 

 peaches. It is more free at the pit than the "Alexander," the ear- 

 liest of the early ones. It is earlier than either "Amsden's June" or 

 " Honeywell," and this is saying a deal in favor of the " Early Canada. " 



We are satisfied that the "Early Canada" will take a foremost 

 place among early peaches. Mr. Moyer is to be complimented on his 

 perseverance and success in at last having introduced one of the best 

 early peaches known. 



When w^e add that Mr. Moyer is one of our most talented, de- 

 voted and practical workers in our Fruit Grower's Association of 

 Ontario, we only express the unanimous desire of every member of 

 our Association, that a full reward may crown his laudable endeavors 

 to benefit fruit growers. 



