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and Delphinium, mixed colors. These 

 will all be sent by mail, post-paid. 



SSEDLING APPLES FROM ELORA. 



We have received from Mr. James 

 Middlemiss, of Elora, a sample of a seed- 

 linLf apple, the tree of which is some 

 fifteen yeai-s old and has been in bearing 

 a number of years. We are told that 

 the crop this year was quite heavy, 

 though there was a very good show of 

 fruit both last year and the year before. 

 The sample received was about the size 

 of a well grown Grimes Golden, of a 

 rich yellow color, and in good eating 

 condition. In quality it will rank as 

 " very good " by Downing's standard 

 of " good," " very good," " best." Mr. 

 Middlemiss states that he kept this 

 fruit last year until past the new year ; 

 and thinks that with care it would pro- 

 bably keep till the end of January. 



BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS WITHOUT 



COST. 



Have you considered what a variety 

 of beautiful things are offered you for 

 the trouble of obtaining only five new 

 subscribers 1 If you want a sample 

 copy of the Canadian Horticulturist, 

 or of the Fruit Growers' Report, or of 

 both of them, you have only to address 

 a postal card to the Editor, St. Cath- 

 ai'ines, asking for them, and they will 

 be mailed to you at once. Is there any- 

 thing more beautiful than the various 

 collections of fiovvering plants oftered 

 you ? That Chionodoxa with its light 

 azure blue flowers with white centre is 

 just charming ; the lily has large 

 beautiful snow-white, trumpet-shaped 

 flowers ; Fritillaria bears lily-like flow- 

 ers, singularly checquered ; the Spanish 

 Iris are most richly colored ; and the 

 Narcissus flowers are snowy white with 

 a lovely red cup. But it is not need- 

 ful that we describe these beautiful 

 things, the most of them ai'e well known 

 to our readers as very desii'able orna- 



ments in every flower garden, as charm- 

 ing adornments to every home. Can 

 you not spare a little time and show 

 our Alagazine to your friends and neigh- 

 bours and send us their subscriptions 

 for the coming year. They will surely 

 thank you before the year closes for 

 calling their attention to a monthly 

 that imparts so much information, 

 that is so veiy useful to every culti- 

 vator of the soil, even though it be but 

 one mere rood of land ; and you will 

 have helped us to make it yet more 

 attractive and useful, and by increasing 

 its circulation to scatter yet more widely 

 the seeds of improved Canadian horti- 

 culture. 



CANADIAN HORTICULTU PvIST, 

 VOL. VIII. 



And the Report of the Fruit Growers' 

 Association for 1881, will be sent to 

 any subscriber, postpaid, for sixty 

 cents, so long as there are copies on 

 hand to send. A few copies of Yol. 

 YII. and of the Report for 1883 yet 

 remain, which also will be sent on re- 

 ceipt of sixty cents. The whole will 

 be mailed to any address on receipt of 

 one dollar. This is an unparalleled op- 

 portunity to secure a large amount of 

 practical information worth many times 

 the cost. Indeed it will save to any 

 one interested in any way in horticul- 

 ture many an expensive experiment. 



CROWS DEVOURING APPLES. 



A correspondent residing in Nova 

 Scotia writes us that the crows are 

 very fond of the Gravenstein a])ple, 

 that being the only one out of a large 

 number of vaiieties which they con- 

 descend to eat, and that this fall he 

 lost over a barrel, the crows alighting 

 on the tree and pecking the apples un- 

 til they fell half eaten and ruined, but 

 they would not touch them on the 

 ground. He was finally compelled to 

 ffiither them to save what remained. 



