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Some fifty of them may be allowed to remain in the frame at a suitable 

 distance apart, and by covering them with tlie sash at night, and when 

 tlie weather is cold, forced, so as to make fine heads very much sooner 

 than those in the open gTound. If one wishes, a few frames may be 

 ])repared in the fall, and filled with leaves or any coarse litter that will 

 prevent the soil in them from freezing, and when the weather becomes 

 mild in the early spring the litter can be taken out, the soil forked 

 over and emiched, and about fifty lettuce plants transplanted into each 

 of these frames, covered with sash, and forced so as to be fit for use by 

 the time the remaining plants can be set out in the open ground. 



The variety of lettuce that seems to give the best satisfaction for 

 early spring, is the one found in our seed stores under the name of 

 Gardeners' Favorite. It not only forces well, making large, solid heads, 

 but is exceedingly ci-isp and tender. For a late crop, we have found 

 no variety that will stand the heat of summer better than Bruce's 

 Nonpareil ; besides, it is very tender, and heads well. 



FRUIT SHIPPED m 1877 FEOM MEAFORD AND OWEN 



SOUND. 



BY HIRAM BOND, MEAFORD. 



Believing that it would be interesting to the numerous readers of 

 the Canadian HoRTfcuLXUKiST, I have taken some pains to ascertain 

 the amount of plums and apples shipped from two of our towns, dur- 

 ing the season of 1877, respectively, Meaford and Owen Sound. There 

 was shipped from Meaford, 5,000 boxes of plums, and 3,000 barrels of 

 apples ; Owen Sound, 3,327 boxes of plums, and 1,579 barrels of 

 apples. 



Your readers will see by this that although this is but a new county 

 we are not altogether behind in horticulture. And I might say that 

 trees are coming into the county by the thousands every year, and we 

 liope before long to be one of the first counties in the province for 

 apples, plums, pears, chenies, grapes, &c., and in some localities peaches 

 do well Our prospects this year for apples and grapes are good, but 

 plums, cherries, pears, &c., are light. 



