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at Navy Island in which he was interested, and said that the best trees 

 and the best fruit were to be found in that part of the orchard that was 

 sheltered. He was also convinced that good cultivation of the soil was 

 just as necessary for tlie production of fine peaches as for anything else. 

 A. M. Smith would protect peach orchards on the south, south-west 

 and west. AV. Holton, Hamilton, remarked that the peach orchards 

 about Brantford seemed to thrive best on a poor soil where they were 

 sheltered, and that in the rich hollows they did not succeed. He 

 thought that our native arbor-vitre, or as it is often called, white cedar, 

 and the native white pine, and black S])ruce were excellent trees to 

 plant for shelter, and easily procured. Chief Johnson, of Tuscaror.i, 

 tiiought the sugar maple an excellent tree to plant for shelter. P. C. 

 Dempsey, Albury, advocated planting the basswood, because it grew- 

 rapidly, afforded as good shelter as any deciduous tree, and from its blos- 

 soms tlie bees gather the best honey, fully equal to, if not better, than 

 white clover honey. W. McKenzie Ross, Ciiatham, spoke favorably of 

 the Scotch pine, because it was a hardy tree and rapid grower. J. Croil, 

 Aultsville, thought that the Norway spruce was the most A^aluable tree 

 for shelter helts, it being even a more rapid grower than the Scotch pine, 

 very dense in its habit and symmetrical in form. 1). "W. Beadle, St. 

 ■Catharines, concurred fully in this opinion; he had seen this tree planted 

 around a large field devoted principally to a pear orchard; in a very 

 few years it had attained to a height of ten or twelve feet, and was quite 

 <lense. He believed also that at present it was the cheapest tree that 

 €ould l)e planted, cheaper than gathering up the white pines and spruces 

 •of our forests, for the reason that the Norway spruce having been 

 several times transplanted, Avas very sure to grow, and could be bought, 

 •of small sizes, about as cheap as the cost of digging up the native trees. 

 W. Roy, Owen Sound, spoke favorably of the Norw\T,y spruce, Austrian 

 pine, and Scotch pine as shelter trees. J. B. Jones, Rochester, N. Y., 

 spoke highly of the Norway sjnnice, saying that it was a hardy tree, 

 easily transjilanted, easily kept within any desired limits, and com- 

 parafvely inexpensive. The European larch was also a gTaceful tree, 

 of rapid growth, and very cheap. 



On tlie subject of fertilizers for fruit trees, Mr. Robertson, of Oak- 

 ville, said that in sandy soils he had found that the application of clay 

 around the trees proved to be very beneficial and lasting in its effects. 

 L. Woolverton, Grims1)y, had also used clay around trees growing in 



