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PERSONALS. 



Charles Forster, so well known as the New 

 York forwarding agent of apples for Simons, 

 Jacobs & Co., of Great Britain, died of 

 typhoid fever on the 19th of April. Many 

 of us remember this gentleman's able ad- 

 dress on the export trade ot apples before 

 the American Pomological Society last Sep- 

 tember at Buffalo. 



Mr. W. H. Hunt has been appointed super- 

 intendent of the greenhouses at the O. A. C, 

 Guelph. He has been well and favorably 

 known to our readers for some years past 

 through his excellent contributions on flori- 

 culture, and in his new position he will have 

 still better opportunities to help us in our 

 work. 



The Yen. Archdeacon MulhoUand of Owen 

 Sound, president of the affiliated local 

 Horticultural Society of that town, passed 

 away on the 19th of April. Foremost in 

 every effort for civic improvement, as well 

 as in matters educational and religious, the 

 loss of such a man is a most serious one, 

 not only to his own community but also to 

 the country at large. 



Export of Fruit.— Now that Mr. W. A. 

 McKinnon is sent to Great Britain to remain 

 a year studying the conditions of the fruit 

 trade at the consumers' end of the line, we 

 ought to reach some definite information 

 which will help us in our business. So far 

 however, we have not been given his Eng- 



