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Small fruits generally were grown with good success. Members 

 found no difficulty in growing Easpberries, such as Franconia, 

 Brinckle's Orange, Knevet's Giant, Pride of Hudson, Cuthbert, Turner, 

 &c. English gooseberries were generally subject to mildew, but 

 Downing and Houghton did well. Strawberries were also grown 

 without difficulty. Mr. T. C. Eobinson said that the Wilson was the 

 most reliable sort ; no other had yet proved to be as profitable for 

 market. He thinks that the Crescent will outcrop the Wilson. 

 President Dempsey manures his strawberries with ashes and bone- 

 dust, applying ten barrels of unleached hard-wood aslies to the acre, 

 and obtains Ironi the Wilson a yield of six thousand quarts to the 

 acre. 



The resident members spared no pains to make tlie visit one of 

 great pleasure to those who came from a distance, kindly taking tliem 

 to several places of interest in the immediate vicinity. Under their 

 hospitable escort we visited Ingle's Falls, a most picturesque spot of 

 great natural beauty ; the gardens of Judge Macpherson, Doctor 

 Cameron, and Mr. Trotter; and the rural homes of Messrs. Glen- 

 Airston, William Roy and J. E. Doyle, at all of wliich we were most 

 hospitably entertained and found much to interest every lover of 

 horticulture. 



At Mr. Doyle's we found most extensive plum orchards, some in 

 full bearing and some more recently planted, the number of pluna 

 trees runi^ing into the thousands; indeed the largest plum orchard we 

 have ever had the pleasure of seeing. The trees were all vigorous 

 and healthy in their appearance, and many of them well filled with 

 fruit. Although they have no curculio to trouble them at Owen 

 Sound, they are not wholly exempt from tlie ills to which the horticul- 

 turist is heir, for the frost had so interfered with fruit culture there 

 this season that but few of the plum trees were yielding a crop. Mr. 

 Doyle also shewed the members a barrel, having the staves so arranged 

 as to admit of ventilation of the fruit packed in it. This barrel is 

 specially adapted to the shipping of early ripening apples and pears, 

 which require to be forwarded in hot weather. 



After a two days' meeting, in which much very valuable information 

 was elicited, and much enjoyment experienced through the very kind 

 attentions of the horticulturists of Owen Sound, tlie members from 

 abroad returned homeward, carrying with them most a gratifying 



