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6th were 1,566,398 barrels. The total for 

 last year amounted to only 469,385 barrels, 

 an increase of over a million barrels in the 

 present season, so far. 



•The meeting will be held in a new hall, a 

 model of convenience and comfort. There 

 will be a large fruit display and an exhibit 

 of spraying and other devices. The dollar 

 membership fee not only entitles members 

 to the privileges of the meetings but also to 

 a copy of the proceedings containing all the 

 papers and stenographic reports of the dis- 

 cussions. The secretary, John Hall, Roch- 

 ter, will mail a copy of the programme to 

 those who send for it. 



AMERICAN SPRAY PUMPS IN CANADA. 



The success of American Fruit Growers 

 with the Hardie Spray Pump has led to so 

 many inquiries for this pump from Cana- 

 dian points that the Hardie Spray Pump 

 Mnfg. Co. has started a factory and opened 

 a Canadian office at Windsor, Ontario, to 

 supply trade on this side of the line. 



The Hardie Spray Pump is one of the 

 standard American pumps ; all working 

 parts are brass, no cast iron enters into its 

 construction, and the solid brass ball valves 

 make it a simple pump to clean. 



It will develop a pressure of 100 lbs. with 

 but little effort, and now that the Canadian 

 demand can be supplied the Hardie will 

 doubtless become as popular in Canada as 

 in the States. 



The Smiih & Reed Co. of St. Catharines, 

 Ontario, have the finest and best selection of 

 apple trees ever offered. Intending pur- 

 chasers should write for full information be- 

 fore placing their orders elsewhere. 



" Country Life in America " for Decem- 

 ber is a large Christmas annual with a beau- 

 tiful cover and a hundred superb illustra- 

 tions, and colored supplements besides. 

 The spirit of jollity of the season pervades 

 the bulky number of winter sports, unusual 

 house parties, Christmas homes and many 

 things of winter at her best. Rudyard Kip- 

 ling contributes the poem, "Pan in Ver- 

 mont," deifying the man who, in winter, 

 brings the seeds of phlox and hollyhocks 

 into the snowbound country where Kipling 

 once lived. Pre-eminent, however, is the 

 profusion of elaborate pictures and the arti- 

 cles that have to do with hockey, skeeing 



and tobogganing, snowshoeing, ice yacht- 

 ing on country lakes, fishing through the 

 ice, and even the homely sports of skating, 

 skate sailing and the pursuits that carry one 

 into the deep woods. Altogether the elab- 

 orate make-up bespeaks the grand success 

 of this new sort of magazine, the growing 

 love of real sport in America, and the move- 

 ment of the New World back to the garden 

 and outdoor life of the Old. 



BURLINGTON HORTICULTURISTS 



The annual meeting of the Burlington Horti- 

 cultural Association was held last week. There 

 was a good attendance of members and all present 

 took an active part in the discussion on the various 

 reports. President A. W. Peart occupied the chair 

 and gave his annual addrtss congratulating the 

 association on the satisfactory season. The sec- 

 retary's statement showed that seven meetings had 

 been held during the year addressed by a number 

 of local and visiting speakers, and that a balance of 

 $96.37 remaired in the treasury. The directors 

 reported on the conditions prevailing among the 

 different varieties of fruit and the measure of suc- 

 cess attending the season's operations. 



The old officers were tcainly re-elected and 

 resulted as follows : 



Hon. President, Geo. E. Fisher. 



Piesident, A. W. Peart. 



VicePrtsident, J. S. Freeman. 



Secretary- Treasurer, W. F. W. Fisher. 



OUR BOOK TABLE. 



Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday. Garden 

 delights which are ht re displayed in very truth, and 

 are moreover regarded as emblems. Alice Morse 

 Eavle, New York, McMillan Co., 1902. Price 

 $2.50. 



Of sun-dials is this book, but not wholly a relat- 

 ion of their history, existence and manufacture. 

 Of Roses, but not alone the story of their presence 

 in the garden by the side of the Sun-dial. The 

 volume treats of the Rose in History, in Poetry, in 

 Symbolism in Romance, in Love, in the hearts of 

 the whole world, and its significance in the society 

 of the Rosibrucians. It also tells of the history of 

 Sun-dials in the Orient, in Ancient Greece and 

 Rome, on the Continent and Great Britain, and in 

 Mexico and South America, and a full account of 

 their existence in ancient and in prt sent days. The 

 Sun-dial in American history and as monument for 

 heroes. Spot dials and noon marks, chilindres, 

 pillar dials, travelers' dials, peasants' dials, shep- 

 herds' dial?, and the dial in all its curious and 

 nical forms and purptses. There is a chapter on 

 the high significance of the Sun- dial as emblem, a 

 symbol of life ; with original designs suited to 

 American dials, and also highly convententional- 

 ized designs from American flowers. 



