THE CANADIAN H0RTI0ULTUKI8T. 



267 



" Little and Often " be the motto of our 

 contributors, and let us have a bright, 

 cheery journal, full of practical hints 

 just adapted to our country, and a 

 welcome visitor to every home. 



Thanks. — We thank our many friends 

 for the kind complimentary words con- 

 cerning the November Number of The 

 Canadian Horticulturist. We hope 

 the appreciation will show itself in a 

 practical way, by doubling our subscrip- 

 tion list. 



A New Contributor. — We are fortunate 

 in having the promise of a series of 

 articles on flowering bulbs, with illus- 

 trations, from Mr. Hermann Simmers, 

 of the firm of Messrs. J. A. Simmers & 

 Co., Toronto. The first appears in this 

 number, with cut of Easter Lily. 



All Subscriptions, new and old, are now 

 due. Please renew at once, that we 

 may know how many colored plates we 

 shall need for our January Number. 

 The address labels will indicate whether 

 paid or unpaid, and be satisfactory 

 receipts, we hope, for the money^ 



Annual Premium. — We receive a good 

 many subscriptions without any accom- 

 panying choice of a premium for the 

 spring of 1887. The choice must be 

 made now that we may provide a suf- 

 ficient number of trees, plants and vines 

 for all subscribers. 



A Seedling Plum.— Mr. W. H. Wylie, 

 of Carlton Place, Ont., writes that he 

 has a seedling red plum which has been 

 cultivated by the family for fifty yeans. 

 It is excellent in quality, a great bearer, 

 and curculio proof. He will exhibit it 

 at some future meeting of the F. G. A. 

 of Ontario. 



Display of Fruits and Flowers at Meetings of 

 Fruit Growers. — At the last meeting at 

 Cleveland, Ohio, premiums were offered 

 for displays of fruits and flowers, and in 

 consequence the hall was made most at- 

 tractive. Local florists covered the 

 stage with plants in bloom and decorated 

 the room with floral ornaments. Among 

 these was a floral parasol, lined with 

 red flowers and covered with white ones 

 nicely fringed, and resting on a base of 

 ferns. May we not learn a lesson from 

 this for increasing the attractions of 

 our meetings 1 



Ladies at the Evening Sessions. — We 

 notice that at the Winter Meeting of 

 the Main State Pomological Society, 

 several ladies were present in the even- 

 ing, and some read essays on floral 

 subjects, to which an evening Session 

 was purposely devoted. 



At the meeting of the Michigan 

 Pomological Society meeting on the 

 30th ult., it was the design to have two 

 or three evening lectures by eminent 

 horticulturists to interest the general 

 public, and thus to widen the influence 

 of the Society- 

 Bagging Grapes. — President Earle said 

 at the close of a discussion on grapes at 

 Cleveland, that he had found bagging 

 grapes a means of protection from rot. 

 The cost was not a half cent a pound. 

 Deep Planting of Grapes. — Mr. J. J. 

 Harrison spoke on this subject at the 

 Ohio Horticultural Society as follows ; 

 " Three or four years ago we lost thou- 

 sands of grape vines. Those vineyards 

 where the Concord was planted deeply 

 survived, while those that were planted 

 shallow died. With us it is considered 



