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New Year's Greetings. 



The Canadian Horticulturist 

 greets its five thousand subscribers with 

 a sincere Happy New Year! Having 

 now reached the mature age of twenty- 

 one, she makes her debut this 1899 in a 

 fine new dress, hoping to win the 

 admiration and esteem of all her friends. 

 Her desire is to serve the best interests 

 of the amateur flower grower, the 

 professional as well as the amateur fruit 

 grower, and the amateur landscape 

 artist. She, therefore, invites liberal 

 contributions of experience in horticul- 

 ture, with photographs in illustration, 

 that there may be mutual helpfulness. 



The Annual Meeting at St. Cath- 

 arines was of special interest both to 

 fruit and flower growers. A letter from 

 Mr. Thos. Beall states that an affiliated 



Horticultural Society is being formed 

 there. This is the best way of keeping 

 in touch with each other and being of 

 mutual benefit. 



The next Annual Meeting of the 

 Association will be held in the town of 

 Whitby, in response to oft repeated in- 

 vitations from local fruit men, backed by 

 the Mayor and Corporation of the town. 



Tomatoes were not a success in the 

 export of shipments of 1898 ; indeed 

 they carried better in 189 7, and then gave 

 great encouragement ; but this season 

 they were reported arriving over-ripe and 

 too soft to sell. We believe the explan- 

 ation is in the variety, and we have yet 

 to learn which variety is best to grow for 

 this purpose. In 1897 our shippers 

 grew Ignotum for export, and in 1898 

 the Dwarf Champion, Dwarf Aristocrat 



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