NIAGARA FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION MEETING. 



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of the affiliation of all local Fruit Growers' 

 Associations with the Provincial Society, so 

 as to work in greater harmony. The plan of 

 work would be somewhat like that of the 

 Farmers' Institutes, and meetings would be 

 held during March and April over the whole 

 country, and be addressed by a fruit expert. 

 The membership fee would be 25 cents. 

 Mr. W. H. Bunting also spoke on the same 

 subject, viewing the scheme with much 

 favor, and he moved the following resolution 

 which was unanimously passed, viz. : 



Resolved that this association learns with 

 pleasure that the Department of Agriculture 

 has taken steps through the Secretary of the 

 Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, Mr. G. 

 C. Creelman, towards organizing through- 

 out the Province in the various agricultural 

 district, Fruit Growers' Associations which 

 will affiliate with the Provincial Association, 

 and will be a channel through which the 

 fruit growers of this Province may act in 

 unison on matters which may arise in which 

 concerted action may be advisable and neces- 

 sary. 



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ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN GRAPE. 



Dr. Jessop, M.P.P. , of St. Catharines, 

 gave an address on the origin of the Ameri- 

 can grape, which was very instructive. It 

 dealt with the origin and history of the 

 Catawba^ that first great American grape, 

 still one of the leading varieties in cultiva- 

 tion, found wild in North Carolina in 1802; 

 the Isabella, introduced from South Carolina 

 into New York State in 1816 by Mrs. Isa- 

 bella Gibbs ; the Diana, a seedling of Cataw- 

 ba, exhibited at Boston in 1843 by Mrs. 

 Diana Crehore, the originator; the Concord, 

 a seedling introduced by Mr. E. W. Bull, of 



Concord, Mass., about the year 1850; and 

 the Clinton, now widely used in Europe as a 

 stock on which to graft other varieties be- 

 cause of its immunity from the dreadful 

 phylloxera. 



Fig. 2282. Export Pears— The Bosc, 



