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A\-iiiter kill, is perfectly hardy and a regu- 

 lar bearer ; yields a full crop in seasons 

 when all other fruits fail. The fruit 

 ripens in this latitude about tlie 1st of 

 July, and is borne in clusters, like the 

 currant. The fruit is about the size of 

 the wild gooseberry ; shape, round ; color, 

 a bluish-black. When fully ripe, the 

 flavour is equal to the raspberry, a very 

 mild, rich sub-acid, considered by most 

 people delicious. Single bushes will often 

 yield ten and twelve quarts in a season. 

 The plant is about the height and size of 

 the currant bush, and very stocky, hold- 

 in:; the fruit well up from the ground. It 

 commences bearing the first year after 

 setting out, and furnishes a full crop the 

 . second and third j^ears. Spring, during 

 April and IMay, is the best time for trans- 

 planting. The plants, are propagated 

 frnn root-cuttings, the same as blackber- 

 ries, but unlike the latter, the canes will 

 continue to bear five or six years. The 

 berries are very fxrai, being successfully 

 shipped hundreds of mdes. The demand 

 for the fruit is great, and it brings on an 

 average fifteen cents per quart wholesale. 



Delos Staples. 

 loxiA Co., ilich. 



THE ANiNUAL REPORT 



Of the Fruit Grower's Association for 

 the year 1884 is published at last, and 

 before this reaches the readers of the 

 Canadian Horticulturist the Report 

 will have been mailed to all the mem- 

 bers. We commend it to their careful 

 study, believing that it will richly 

 repay them. The discussions at the 

 several meetings have been accurately 

 taken down by a competent steno- 

 grapher and will be found to express 

 the opinions of men whose views 

 are the outcome of long expei-ience, 

 coupled with habits of observation and 

 reflection. 



The range of subjects discussed will 

 be found to be very great. Fruits of 

 every sort usually grown in our climate, 

 many of the vegetables, flowering 2:)lants, 

 ornamental shrubs, trees, injurious 

 insects, bii-ds, &c., are spoken of in a 



way that cannot fail to be helpful to 

 any one who takes the least interest in 

 the cultivation of any of the fruits or 

 flowers. 



The last fifty pages contains in tabul- 

 ated form such information in regard 

 to the several varieties of Apple, Pear, 

 Plum, and Grapes that are grown 

 in the difierent counties, as the 

 Directors of the association were able to 

 obtain. 



This Report, so full of important 

 information, and the Canadian Hor- 

 ticulturist, which is issued on the first 

 of every month, are supplied to any one 

 on payment of one dollar a year. Is 

 there any cultivator of even the smallest 

 garden who can get a better retui-n than 

 this from the expenditure of One 

 Dollar? 



FLORICULTURE IX THE SCHOOLS. 



Perhaps some will say that the Fiiiit 

 Growers were going very far beyond 

 their proper limits when they took up 

 the discussion of the cultivation of 

 flowers in connection with our common 

 schools. But it was high time that it 

 should be discussed somewhere by some 

 persons competent to discuss it, and 

 one will go far and search long without 

 finding a body of men more intelligent 

 or more competent than the fruit 

 growers of Ontario. 



Our boasted system of common school 

 education is far from being perfect, far 

 from being abreast of the times. The 

 scholastic ideas of the past ages have 

 great need of being thoroughly re- 

 examined in the light of the needs of 

 the present time. Mental discipline 

 can be secured by other means than by 

 abstruse arithmetical conundrums. 

 Habits of observation and some know- 

 ledge of things about us, are of more 

 importance than much of the teaching 

 now in vogue. Live, wide awake, 

 observant, pi-actical men and women 



