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THE CANADIAN H0RTICULTURIS2. 



Fig. 2396. Garden of the Rev. J. T. Pitcher, Smith's Falls, O.nt. 



the different grades offered for sale at the 

 retail shops. There will be seen peaches the 

 size of an ordinary apple, without spot or 

 blemish, while alongside of them may be a 

 basket of immature bruised specimens that 

 apparently have been handled with the same 

 care that is accorded to anthracite coal. 

 The prices of the one is perhaps a dollar and 

 a quarter, the others are labeled three for a 

 dollar. The amount received by the growers 

 of these two grades would be still more 

 convincing evidence of the necessity for 

 growing only the best or at least of market- 

 ing only the best. The top prices cannot 

 always be secured, but the fruit of a high 

 standard of quality never waits a buyer." 



CLERGYMEN AS GARDENERS. 



WE have often been impressed that 

 clergymen should be the most 

 active supporters of our Horticultural So- 



cieties. These organizations afford an open 

 meeting ground for all religious parties, and 

 the study of flowers and fruits is a branch of 

 nature study that leads ones thoughts up- 

 ward toward the creator of this world o-f 

 beauty. 



As recreation for the body, nothing is bet- 

 ter for the minister than an hour or two a 

 day spent in his garden, while at the same 

 time he gets many a suggestion for his 

 sermons, gathered from his garden favorites. 



The Rev. A. B. Cohoe, of Grimsby, plant- 

 ed a quarter acre garden last April with 

 rows of all kinds of vegetables to keep a 

 succession, and, while the care of it was a 

 a pleasure and a source of increased health, 

 the proceeds for the table were more valu- 

 able, we fancy, than any other quarter acre 

 in the neighborhood^. 



The Rev. Canon Hole, Dean of Rochester, 



