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covered with blossoms in the spring, or wlien their branches are 

 pendant witli golden fruit in the autumn, is a delight not soon 

 to be forgotten. There are many other localities in Nova Scotia 

 where fruit culture is carried on very successfully, and the 

 exports of fruit from this province are large and constantly 

 increasing. The Fruit Growers' Association of Nova Scotia, 

 which is also aided by provincial funds, is a strong and active 

 organization, holding meetings at intervals during the year for 

 the discussion of subjects relating to fruit growing and other 

 branches of horticulture, and the information brought out is 

 published in the proceedings of the Association. During the 

 past year the quantity of apples exported was about five hundred 

 thousand barrels. Some of this fruit, I am told, finds its way to 

 Boston, where the high-flavored Gravensteins are said to be 

 much appreciated ; but much the larger portion finds a ready 

 market in the larger cities in Great Britain. In Halifax there 

 are several parks, including in all about two hundred and eighty 

 acres. The Public Gardens, containing about sixteen acres, are 

 also very attractive and contain some excellent specimens of 

 trees, mostly European, and many varieties of shrubs and coni- 

 fers, including some choice specimens of Japanese Ketinosporas, 

 notably of Chamcecyparis plmnosa and C. plumosa aurea. The 

 Scotch heather, Calluna vulgaris, also luxuriates here, and some 

 of the fine flower beds are margined with this pretty plant, 

 which has become naturalized and is growing in large patches in 

 the public parks. Truro and other smaller cities and towns west 

 of Halifax are emulating the capital in the establishment of 

 parks, adorning their streets with avenues of trees, and embel- 

 lishing their homes with groups of choice shrubs and beds of 

 flowers. 



In New Brunswick, with an area of twenty-eight thousand 

 square miles and a papulation of three hundred and twenty-one 

 thousand, the climate is not so favorable for general progress in 

 horticulture as in the sister province of Nova Scotia. While 

 orchards have been successfully established in the valley of the 

 St. John river, tli£ varieties of fruit grown are chiefly of the 

 hardier sorts, and the cultivation of large fruits is not general. 

 Small fruits, however, are grown in abundance, and the cool 

 weather in early summer retards the ripening season and permits 

 of the growing of large quantities of luscious strawberries, which. 



