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British Columbia, a Competitor in Winnipeg. 



Sir, — I am just in receipt of a letter front Peach- 

 land B, C, in which the writer is most enthusiustic 

 over the future of that country. He says that last 

 year the Cold Stream Ranch ( Lord Aberdeen's ) 

 produced, from one hundred acres, apples which 



sold for thirteen thousand dollars ! I think that 

 Ontario fruit growers should be aroused to a sense 

 of the danger of this western province stealing 

 away from them their best market. 



J. J. Philp, 

 Ottawa, Fruit Inspector. 



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Hamilton. — The Spectator flower garden com- 

 petitic n has been finally closed, all the entries 

 having been tabulated and arranged in order and 

 the list handed over to the committee of the City 

 Improvement and Horticultural societies. Nearly 

 100 boys and girls are working in the junior com- 

 petition and over 50 adults are interested in the 

 contest for g^own-up people. The entries are 

 from all parts of the city, and the judges will have 

 a good deal of traveling to do in making their 

 several inspections during the season. These in- 

 spections will be unannounced, and it is expected 

 that there will be at least three of them before the 

 end of the season and before the awards are made. 

 In the meantime the contestants are all working 

 to make sure that their gardens are the very best 

 in the whole city and that the first prize is coming 

 their way. 



Paris. — The Horticultural Society has interested 

 itself in the improvement of the school grounds, 

 and especially in the planting of a large collection 

 of trees and shrubs, in order that the children may 

 become familiar with the varieties. A gentleman 

 who has travelled much, has expressed g^eat ap- 

 preciation of the work, and says that no where else 

 has he seen so excellent a collection of varieties 

 planted on school grounds. The society furnished 

 elms, walnuts, basswoods, horse chestnuts, white 

 oaks, hickory, white birch, cut leaf and negundo 

 maples, Colorado blue spruces and tulip trees in 

 sufficient number to surround the large school 

 grounds, and besides this there is a large collection 

 of flowering and ornamental shrubs, spireas, deut- 

 zias, weigelias, syringas. hydrangeas, flowering 

 thorns, forsythias, and a variety of native shrubs, 

 which have been planted to give the best effects. 



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American Horticultural Manual, Part I. — 

 Comprising the leading principles and practices 

 connected with the propagation, culture and im- 

 provement of fruits, nuts, ornamental trees, shrubs 

 and plants in the United States and Canada, by 

 Prof. J. L. Budd, of Ames, Iowa. Cloth, $1.50. 



The plan of this work seems to be somewhat af- 

 ter that of Downing's Fruits and Fruit Trees of 

 America, except that the part giving cultural 

 methods is published in a separate volume, and 

 the Systematic Descriptions will follow as Part II 

 in the same manner. That many changes and ad- 

 vances have been made in horticulture since Dow- 

 ning's work was published, is evident from the 

 many appendices which are being made to that 

 valuable work, and we welcome this work of Prof. 

 Budd's as an effort to bring up to date the Pom- 

 ology of North America. With such excellent 

 manuals at hand, no fruit grower needs to be ig- 

 norant of either the best varieties to plant, or the 

 best methods of cultivation. 



Irrigation Farming, a hand book for the proper 

 application of water in the production of crops, by 

 L. M. Wilcox, editor of " Field and Farm." Re- 

 vised and enlarged edition. Illustrated 1902. 



The chapter on " Irrigation of the Garden " 

 will alone commend the book to market garden- 

 ers, and that on " Irrigation of the Orchard " will 

 make it indespensable to the many fruit growers 

 in Ontario who have suffered serious loss of late 

 years from long continued drcfuths, and conse- 



quent small sized fruit. The principal chapters 

 treat very fully of the advantages of irrigation ; 

 relations of soils to irrigation ; treatment of alkali , 

 water supply ; canal construction ; reservoirs and 

 ponds ; pipes for irrigation purposes ; flumes and 

 their structure ; duty and measurement of water ; 

 methods of applying water ; irrigation of field 

 crops, the garden, the orchard, the vineyard and 

 small fruits ; all about alfalfa ; windmills and 

 pumps ; devices, appliances and contrivances ; sub- 

 irrigation and subsoiling ; sewage and drainage ; 

 irrigation in humid regions ; common law of irri- 

 gation ; glossary of irrigation terms, etc. The 

 volume is profusely, handsomely and practically 

 illustrated. 



Commissioner of High Ways. — Sixth Annual 

 Report, 1901, by W. A. Campbell. 



Western Fair. — Prize List, London, Canada, 

 September 12th to 20th, 1902. 



Nova Scotia. — Annual Report of £he Fruit 

 Growers' Association, 1902. 



Ontario Fruit Exhibit at Pan American, 

 1901, W. H. Bunting, of St. Catharines. Supt.. 

 This report has been published as an appendix to the 

 report of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association. 

 Mr. Bunting first gives a capital summary of such 

 fruits in connection with the exhibits as are of 

 the most practical importance to our fruit gfrow- 

 ers ; then follows an official list of awards ; a list 

 of collective exhibits with dates ; and a complete 

 alphabetical list of all varieties of fruits shown. 



