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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The Next Meeting of our Association 

 will be held at Walkerton, near the home 

 of Mr. Sherrington, our fruit experimenter 

 for the Lake Huron District. 



TOPWORKING THE NORTHERN SpY. — Mr. 



Geo. T. Powell, of New York, recommends 

 the Spy as stock on which to graft or bud 

 Other varieties, because its wood is so hard 

 and fine grained. He has been grafting on 

 it scions of King and Jonathan with excel- 

 lent results. 



The Journal. — The editorship of this 

 Journal remains in the hands of Mr. L. 

 Woolverton who hopes to be able occasion- 

 ally to attend meetings of Horticultural 

 Societies and Farmers' Institutes, and to visit 

 the various fruit growing sections of the 

 province, and thus gather material to very 

 much increase the value of this publication. 



A Report of the Kieffer Shipment. — 

 Mr. Wm. Wilson, the inventor of the new 

 Canadian fruit package accompanied a car 

 lot of them to Glasgow packed with KiefFer 

 pears. He reports that the officials of the 

 Donaldson Line gave him every opportu- 

 nity to test the temperature of the cold 

 storage chamber as often as he chose during 

 the passage over, and he found it quite 

 satisfactory, standing between 37° and 41° 

 during the whole voyage. 



He was kindly received by the consignees, 

 who sold his cases of Kieffers at 6s., 7s. 

 and 8s. for the 112 pear grade. This case 

 weighs thirty-two to thirty-five pounds, 

 while the half case we have been using 

 weighs about twenty-seven pounds. These 

 sales seem to indicate a decided advantage 

 for the new case. The outside measurement 

 is 2\]4 X 10^ X 12^2 inches, and the pears 

 be so arranged that any sizes will fit the 



