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well based. The ground should be carefully and deeply prepared, and 

 bushes should be well cut back, as they require suitable winter pro- 

 tection. 



Mr. Beadle thought that in the cloudy climate of England the rose 

 attained to greater perfection than here, as the hot sun seemed to burn 

 up the tlowers, and would recommend shading during mid-day ; knows 

 I person who shades with canvas; the cultivators are hybridizing with 

 I he Noisette, and expect a new strain of great value. 



Mr. iJucke tliought the rose might be made more Lardy if the 

 liybridist went back to the initial step, and crossed the glorious roses 

 of England and France with the native dog-rose. 



Mr. Dempsey gave his experience. He planted roses in the shade, 

 and finds that if a healthy, vigorous growth is maintained there will be 

 very few insects ; prefers cow manure. 



Mr. Arnold thought the growers should begin at once and cross 

 the foreign with the native wild rose. Burned sod makes the best 

 manure for the rose. 



Mr. Saunders wx)uld apply Paris green as a remedy for the worm, 

 which eats the half open buds ; would also apply it for the rose slugv 

 ]\ir. Woodward uses whale oil soap for rose insects. 

 Mr. Bucke read a paper on nut-bearing trees, as follows: 



NUT BEARING NATIVE TREES. 



"Can any of our native nut bearing trees be profiably cultivated, 

 either for nuts or timber, and where is the northern limit of each?" 



The above question has been put into the hands of every member 

 of the Fruit Growers' Association, and I trust it will meet wMtli a 

 response not only from those who are assembled here to-day, but from 

 others also who take an interest in forest tree culture, — a, subject 

 which is awakening a deep interest, not only in Ontario, but in all 

 parts of the Dominion, where the denudation of both the public and 

 private domain is being carried on to an alarming extent. But deeply 

 as we are interested, who once had, and are losing our forests, still 

 more will those be exercised over this question who have, are. and will 

 be settling in our northwestern plains, where, from the sweeping forest 

 fires and other causes, forests such as we have "loved and lost" have 

 Jiad r. -) exigence *'iu memory' of the oldest inhabitant." 



