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THE CAJ^ADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



quality. It keeps well into March. 

 It is a productive and valuable apple of 

 the ii'on-clad class, lacking only in size 

 for market. 



Our readers will remember that we 

 gave some account of this apple last 

 year, see page 136 of Volume VII., and 

 that Mr. D. H. Carpenter, of Wis- 

 consin, speaks in very high terms of 

 this apple, saying that, when everything 

 is taken into consideration it is decidely 

 the best winter apple they have in 

 Wisconsin. 



WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY. 



You deserve all the support we can 

 give you. You are improving every 

 year, and I feel as if I must have the 

 publication. Rev. Dr. Armstrong. 



Moore, February, 1£S5. 



The vine received from the Fruit 

 Growers' Association last spring grew 

 nicely. We like the Canadian Horti- 

 culturist very much, and think the col- 

 oured plates alone are worth the sub- 

 scription. R. W. Bass. 



Oxford Centre. 



You give good inducements for people 

 to subscribe, but I am sori-y to .say there 

 is not any of my neighbors take any 

 interest in fruit-growing ; but some of 

 them like fruit, which T know to my 

 cost. W. J. 



Huron, February, 1385. 



I am happy to see the Canadian Hor- 

 ticulturist getting on so well, and trust 

 the Society is still doing better, as it 

 certainly deserves every encouragement, 

 for it is doing a good work, and is not 

 yet half appreciated. J. R. Cotter. 



Barrie, February, 1885. 



I am very much pleased with your 

 valuable monthly, and wish it all suc- 

 cess. I consider the twelve colored 



plates alone worth the subscription 

 price, saying nothing of the excellent 

 and instructive reading matter. Hop- 

 ing each year will bring you increased 

 prosperity, I remain. 



Yours, &c. , 



W. J. Patterson. 

 Binbrook, Februarj-, 1885. 



I took the Canadian Horticulturist 

 last year for the first, and was very 

 much pleased with it. It is a pity that 

 the fruit growers of Canada are not 

 enough interested in the Horticulturist 

 to give it the support necessary to en- 

 able you to publish it weekly. The 

 age in which we live is a fast one, and 

 the old monthly system is too slow to 

 satisfy a fast people. 



Robt. Sloan. 



Clarkson, Feb., 1885. 



I did not intend to subscribe this 

 year, for I am sick of attempting to try 

 to grow fruit for other people's children 

 to steal. Last summer I had 78 Flem- 

 ish Beauty pears stolen from me in one 

 day, it was done by neighbox-s' children. 

 The laws in this country are such that 

 a premium is given to young people to 

 steal, for if you prosecute, the parents 

 are fined, instead of giving them a good 

 birching, the same as they do in the old 

 land. But I will try another year. 

 Toronto, January, 1885. A. B. 



Sir, — Please find 81 enclosed for the 

 renewal of the Horticidturist. I choose 

 for my gift the Catalpa. Please to re- 

 member that the January number has 

 not been sent. Being only an amateur, 

 with a small garden, I thought I ought 

 to do without it ; but I have come to 

 like it and long for it, and believe there 

 would be quite a blank if it were not 

 a regular visitor. It is well gotten up 

 and interesting, although I think a gi-eat 

 fault of you regularly-bred nui'serymen 

 is that you don't seem to know the 

 wants of us less skilled in the art. Bot- 



