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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



the press of America and Great Britain, 

 received the highest commendations for 

 its comprehensiveness and general ex- 

 cellence. Since that Mr. Saunders has 

 visited England in charge of the Cana- 

 dian fruit display at the Colonial and 

 Indian Exhibition, and since his return 

 has undertaken several experiments, at 

 the instance of the Minister of Agri- 

 culture, in the shipment of early varie- 

 ties of apples and other fruits and 

 vegetables in refrigerators. In these 

 undertakings his efforts were crowned 

 with the success which generally fol- 

 lows intelligence and well directed 

 efforts. Mr. Saunders, in fact, is a 

 gentleman singularly well qualified for 

 the position to which Mr. Carling has 

 appointed him. He was for years 

 President of the Ontario Fruit Growers' 

 Association — a position which he held 

 by reason of his superior knowledge of 

 all that appertains to the cultivation of 

 fruit. He is recognized as one of the 

 leading chemists of the Dominion, and 

 was at one time one of the chief oflScers 

 of the American Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Science. He has been for 

 years the leading entomologist of the 

 Dominion, and to that branch of natural 

 science has made many valuable literary 

 contributions. He is a member of the 

 Executive Board in charge of the Pro- 

 vincial Agricultural College at Guelph — 

 a position which shows in some degree 

 the extent to which his knowledge of 

 scientific agriculture is recognized by 

 the Ontario Government. He has, to 

 an extent more generally perhaps than 

 any other man in the Dominion, con- 

 ducted delicate experiments of an agri- 



cultural character, and in assuming the 

 directorship of the new farm stations 

 will be following in the groove to which 

 his efforts and education have for years 

 tended. He also combines with rare 

 executive ability the faculty of intelli- 

 gently communicating his ideas to 

 others. Just such a man was wanted. 

 Mr. Saunders is at present visiting the 

 Maritime Provinces for the purpose of 

 reporting on a site for the Central Ex- 

 perimental Farm Station for the three 

 Lower Provinces. It is also probable 

 that he will visit Manitoba, the North - 

 West and British Columbia at an early 

 date, or in the spring, for the purpose 

 of selecting sites for the stations in 

 those Provinces. In the meantime 

 work is going on briskly on the Central 

 Farm here, and the introductory opera- 

 tions have begun in earnest. Mr. 

 Saunders' home will in future be in 

 Ottawa, although he may not leave 

 London for some months to come. 



FRUITS IN MANITOBA. 



It is interesting to notice in the 

 Manitoba Crop Bulletin of 15th Octo- 

 ber, sent us by Mr. Acton Burrows, 

 what a number of fruits grow wild in 

 that country. 



There are very few cultivated fruits 

 except raspberries, currants, goose- 

 berries and strawberries ; these succeed 

 well, especially the currants and goose- 

 berries: but the varieties of plums, 

 crab apples and cherries, which we grow 

 in Ontario, are for the most part a 

 failure in Manitoba. 



It is especially worthy of observation, 

 however, that there are wild varieties 



