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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



from the Ridgetown Exhibition, contributed 

 by the Howard Branch Agricultural Society, 

 consisting of 33 varieties. 



George Nixon, Hyde Park, several varie- 

 ties each of apples, pears, and crabs. 



Wm. Kotmire, St. Catharines, 6 varieties 

 apples, 2 pears. 



Pi. D. Colgrove, London, 2 varieties apples. 



D. Nicol, Cataraqui, 3 varieties apples. 



J. B. Osborne, Beamsville, 4 varieties 

 pears, 3 apples, 1 grapes. 



James Briody, London, 3 varieties apples. 



P. C. Dempsey. Albury, a iine collection, 

 including 3(5 varieties apples, 4 pears, and 

 33 grapes. 



Henry Woodruff, St. Da\'id's, Niagara 

 grapes. 



Dr. Flock, London, yellow egg plums. 



James Griifiths, Westminster, Wilson's 

 Earlv blackberries. 



T.' H. Parker, Woodstock, Glass' Seedling 

 plums. 



James Emmerson, Valencia, 10 varieties 

 apples. 



George Davy, Valencia, 3 varieties apples. 



Henry Paffard, Niagara, four very fine 

 samples of grapes, one being a very large 

 bunch of Black Hamburghs, grown in the 

 open air. 



J. Grmond, Niagara, 3 varieties peaches, 

 3 apples, I pears, 1 grapes. 



Gage J. Miller, Niagara, 7 varieties pears. 



Edward Brammer, London Township, ,6 

 varieties apples. 



F. Farncomb, Newcastle, 7 varieties apples, 

 8 pears. 



James Dorman, Byron, 5 varieties apples. 



John Plummer, London, a line sample of 

 walnuts. 



Judge Hughes, St. Thomas, Jonathan 

 apples. 



J. M. Denton, London, 3 varieties apples. 



THE REYNAPvD APPLE. 



Mr. Charles E. Brown, a life mem- 

 ber of the Fruit Growers' Association 

 of Ontario, says : " We have a seedling 

 in this county, the Reynard, season 

 Kovember to February, a very large, 

 symmetrical, round apple, greenish 

 yellow, with sometimes a faint blush, 

 that I should like to see tried in On- 

 tario, and would be glad to send scions 

 gratis to any one who will try it, with 

 the assurance that they will be pleased 

 ■with the result ; also scions of a Corn- 

 "wallis seedling. Bishop Bourne, from 



seed of Ribston Pippin, of which you 

 will see a notice in next report of the 

 American Pomological Society. My 

 idea concerning the Reynolds is that 

 the quality would improve in a warmer 

 region, and that it would be a valuable 

 market variety." 



We will give Mr. Brown's address 

 to any one wishing to try one or both 

 of these varieties of apple in Ontario. 



VERBATIM HORTICULTLTRAL 

 REPORTS. 



In noticing the report of the Fiuit 

 Growers' Association of Ontario the 

 Rural New -Yorker spoke in terms of 

 commendation of the peculiar feature of 

 these reports that the words of the 

 speaker are taken down exactly as 

 spoken by a skilful shorthand writer. 

 One of its correspondents takes notice 

 of this fact in the following terms :■ — 

 The Rural is right, as usual, when it 

 says that a full report of the discussions 

 at horticultural meetings makes the 

 most valuable part of the record when 

 published. If verbatim i-eporting ever 

 pays, it pays there. Even a little 

 shade of expression from an expert, 

 fully given, will sometimes speak vol- 

 umes. 



A DISHONEST TREE AGENT. 

 We notice that a dishonest tree 

 agent by the name of Archibald Drink- 

 water has met with his deserts. It 

 seems that he forged several orders for 

 trees by increasing the amount ordered 

 after the order was given, and that he 

 tried this game on at least two differ- 

 ent nursery fii'ms for whom he engaged 

 to sell trees. Fearing he might be 

 called to account he fled the country 

 and domicilled himself near Chicago, 

 not being aware that the extradition 

 ti-eaty covered his case. He was hunt- 

 ed up by a shrewd detective, brought 

 back and tried at the Fall Assizes in 

 Owen Sound, and sentenced to five 



