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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



THE WINTER MEETING 



Of the Fruit Growers' Association of 

 Ontario will he held in the Town Hall, 

 Stratford, on Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day, the 10th and 11th of February, 

 1886, commencing at 10 o'clock in the 

 forenoon of Wednesday. 



Railway certificates will be sent to 

 any members who may apply for them, 

 by sending a postal card to the sec- 

 retary, D. W. Beadle, St. Catharines. 

 These railway certificates must be pre- 

 sented to the ticket agent when purchas- 

 ing your ticket at the starting point, 

 and be signed and stamped by him, and 

 afterwards must be presented to the 

 secretary at the close of the meeting 

 and signed by him. 



The following hotels will entertain 

 members at one dollar and fifty cents 

 per day ; namely, Albion, Windsor and 

 Commercial ; the charge at the Royal 

 and Mansion House will be one dollar 

 a day. These are all first rate hotels. 



At a meeting of members held in 

 Stratford, a programme of subjects for 

 discussion was prepared which will be 

 taken up at the meeting in the order 

 here presented. 



PROGRAMME OF SUBJECTS. 



1 — Gardens and lawns in city and coun- 

 try. 

 2. — Fences; the best and cheapest of the 



future, or should they be abolished. 

 3. — Ornamental trees and shrubs and 



forest trees, and hedges for protection 



and shade. 

 4. — Tree planting on streets, road sides 



and school grounds. 

 5. — Nut bearing trees suitable for this 



section. 

 6. — Black-knot on plum and cherry 



trees, its cause, prevention and cure. 

 7. — Curculio and insect pests in general. 

 8. — Grapes, early and best varieties for 



cultivation in this section. 

 9. — Peaches and cherries, earliest and 



best varieties for cultivation in this 



section. 

 10. — Gooseberries, currants, raspberries 



and strawberries, earliest and best 



varieties for cultivation in this sec- 

 tion. 



11. — Pears, best varieties for home use 

 and commercial purposes. 



12. — Apples, best varieties for export. 



13. — Quince, varieties and cultivation. 



14. — Plums, culture and best varieties for 

 this section. 



15.-^Cranberries and huckleberries ; 

 would it pay to cultivate ? 



16. — Vegetables, the best and most pro- 

 fitable varieties of cabbage, cauli- 

 flower, celery, peas, beans, corn, 

 asparagus, turnips, potatoes, etc.; 

 how to grow them and destroy the 

 noxious insects to which potatoes 

 and the cabbage tribe are subject. 



17. — Floriculture, amateur. 



18. — Fertilizers best for clay and heavy 

 clay loam soils. 



19. — Drainage, relation to fruit growing. 



20. — Fruit, proper method of packing and 

 keeping. 



The secretary has been advised that 

 a delegation of three prominent horti- 

 culturists from the Michigan State 

 Horticultural Society will be present 

 at the meeting, also a representative 

 from the Ohio Experiment station. It 

 is also expected that some of the lead- 

 ing members of the Western New 

 York Horticultural Society will be in 

 attendance. 



We expect a grand meeting, and 

 that members will bring with them 

 samples of fruit for exhibition, par- 

 ticularly of seedling apples or pears of 

 promising qualities. 



CHERRIES FOR THE NORTH-WEST. 



The visit to Russia of Professor Budd> 

 of Iowa, and of Mr. Chas. Gibb, of 

 Quebec, has brought to our. knowledge 

 a variety of cherry which thrives and 

 bears immense crops in a climate where 

 the thermometer indicates great severity 

 of cold, not unfrequently falling as low 

 as forty-five degrees below zero, Faren- 

 heit. These gentlemen state that these 

 cherries are grown in such large quan- 

 tities in that cold climate that they 



