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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



from the g'eneral exhibits of fruit growers 

 to enable fruit growers and farmers passing 

 through to appreciate its real value. 



The subject was debated with much in- 

 terest, and every one concurred in the great 

 importance of a better and more distinct in- 

 stallation of the exhibits of our fruit sta- 

 tions. One object of their establishment 

 was to point out to planters the varieties 

 desirable in each section, and another was 

 to warn planters against those found worth- 

 less or otherwise undesirable. Now, if we 

 can secure proper accommodation at the 

 Industrial, we will be able to make separate 

 sectional exhibits, showing in one class the 

 varieties that may be planted with profit; 

 in another, those desirable only for home 

 uses, and in another those which are a fail- 

 ure, or for other reasons not worth plant- 

 ing. If each station makes these divisions, 

 and arranges each class alphabetically, there 

 will be no exhibit at the fair of more inter- 

 est to our farmers. 



Mr. A. McNeill, fruit inspector from Ot- 

 tawa, was also present, and regretted that 

 at present he could find no accommodation 

 in the space set aside to the fruit experi- 

 ment stations for his demonstration of fruit 

 packing for the export trade. He had two 

 assistants at work wrapping pears and ap- 

 ples and packing them in cases, and this ex- 

 hibit was of great importance to fruit 

 growers, but he was compelled to set it up 

 in Machinery hall. He hoped that another 

 year the Board of Control would be able to 

 provide space for this. 



A special committee was appointed to 

 prepare plans for a fruit growers' building, 

 seek a site, and report to the annual meet- 

 ing of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion, which meets in Leamington next No- 

 vember. In this committee the following 

 persons represent the experiment station 

 board: Messrs. G. C, Creelman, W. M. 

 Orr and Prof. H. L. Hutt, and to represent 

 the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association, 



Messrs. W. H. Bunting, A. McNeill and I.. 

 Woolverton. 



FRUIT GROWING IN THE NIAGARA DIS- 

 TRICT. 



OUR friend, Mr. W. L. Smith, editor 

 of the Sun, has been through the 

 Niagara fruit district, and is quite enthu- 

 siastic over its capabilities. The Arm- 

 strong orchard, at Queenston, with looo St. 

 John and i,ooo Early Crawford peach trees, 

 six years planted, is noted, with a crop of 

 probably 8,000 baskets. This is its first 

 year of bearing. These are certainly two 

 of the finest varieties for our home mar- 

 kets, and in their season we know of no 

 peaches to equal them for any purposes. 

 The Yellow St. John just precedes the 

 Early Crawford, and is over when the lat- 

 ter comes on. The only question in our 

 mind about such large plantations of these 

 excellent varieties is the limitations of our 

 near markets, for when these are filled, 

 some firmer variety, that would carry to 

 some less favored district, is more to be de- 

 sired. Mr. Armstrong's tomato patch of 

 10,000 plants is also mentioned, and is reck- 

 oned by him to yield 10,000 baskets of fruit 

 this season ! rather an enormous yield, which 

 we should judge to be an overestimate. 

 We referred to Mr. Armstrong's success 

 with tomatoes a year ago, and certainly he 

 demonstrates what can be done even with 

 such an every day crop. He makes money 

 out of them by marketing about a third of 

 them in July, much in advance of other 

 growers. 



HORSE POWER VS. MAN POWER. 



THE contrast between English and 

 Canadian methods of cultivation is 

 very marked. Elsewhere we have describ- 

 ed Mr. Cheal's method of cultivating his 

 nursery at Crawley, in the south of Eng- 

 land, and how he divides his fifty acres into 

 small garden patches, all worked by hand. 



