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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



THE END OF THE YEAR. 



To OUR SUBSCKIBERS : 



It seems but yesterday that we placed 

 in your hands the number for January, 

 now we lay Ijefore you that for Decem- 

 ber. These pages have been filled 

 throughout the year with useful infor- 

 mation, such as will keep you abreast 

 of the times on horticultural subjects, 

 and be of service to you in this part of I 

 the world in which we live. There \ 

 have been no serial stories, no humorous ■ 

 anecdotes, no column of witticisms. 

 It is our intention to maintain this 

 character for the Canadian Horticultu- 

 rist. Does this meet with your approba- 

 tion 1 If it does, will you kindly ex- 

 press your approval by promptly renew- 

 ing your subscription so that it will 

 reach this office by the fifteenth of De- 

 cember. The publishing committee has 

 decided for reasons of economy to print 

 only sufficient copies to supply subscii- 

 bers whose names have been received at 

 the time of going to press. This will 

 make it impossible to supply back num- 

 bers. Subscriptions will run for one year 

 from the date on which they are received. 

 Therefore if you desire to secure all the 

 numbers of the Ninth Volume it will be 

 necessary that your subscriptions reach 

 us by the day mentioned. 



When you remit the subscription will 

 you please mention which of the pre- 

 miums you desire should be sent to you 

 in the spring. If this is not done then 

 there is danger that you will forget to 

 do it afterwards, and be disappointed 

 at not receiving the article you want, 

 and by that time think vou have asked 

 for. 



Another favor. If you think our 

 Canadian Horticulturist worthy of 

 being sustained, and its publication 

 continued, please to show it to your 

 friends, and use your influence to in- 

 crease its circulation. 



Pardon us. One more I'equest. 

 Please communicate the results of vour 



own experience, whether successful or 

 unsuccessful. Your experience will be 

 helpful to some fellow toiler; and your 

 giving of it to others an act of kindness 

 so akin to mei'cy that it will be twice 

 blessed. 



" It blesseth hira that gives, and him that takes." 



SUBSCRIBERS' PREMIUMS. 

 The object which the Fruit Growers' 

 Association of Ontario has in view in 

 offering these plants and seeds to the 

 subscribers to the Canadian Horticul- 

 turist is two-fold : the first that these 

 may be planted and tested in our 

 Province ; the second that the person 

 testing will report his experience, fa- 

 vorable or unfavorable, as the case may 

 be, through the medium of this Maga- 

 zine, so that intending planters may 

 have the benefit of that experience to 

 guide them in their selections. The 

 Directors regret that so few have taken 

 the trouble to make a report of their 

 experience. They consider that every 

 subscriber who accepts of one of these 

 premiums does so with the understand- 

 ing and implied promise on the part of 

 the recipient that a report will be made 

 to the Canadian Horticulturist of the 

 receiver's experience with the article 

 received. 



Every subscriber will receive, in ad- 

 dition to the monthly issue of this 

 Magazine, the Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion Report for 1885, which is already 

 in the hands of the pi-inter, and which- 

 ever one of the following articles the 

 subscriber may designate to have sent 

 in the spring of 1886, namely : (I) 

 Three plants of the Ontario Strawberry; 

 or, (2) a yearling tree of the Russian 

 Yellow TransjKirent Ajjple ; or, (3) a 

 plant of the Lucretia Dewberry ; or, (4) 

 a yearling vine of the Early Victor 

 Grape ; or, (5) two j^lants of the Marl- 

 boro' Raspberry; or, (6) a package 

 containing a paper of seeds of Gypso- 

 2)hila jyaniculata, Aquilegia Ceridea, 



