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is to err in the other direction. We need hardly say that the Norway 

 spruce, and Austrian and Canadian pines are the trees best adapted to 

 our soil and climate. 



One of the greatest difficulties the tree planter has to contend 

 with is the highway cow and the Sunday horse ; that is, horses which 

 after working all the week are allowed to rove at large during the day 

 of rest. Canadian stock laws, as a rule, are defective, and there is a 

 general difficulty to getting parties to act in the matter of impounding 

 stray cattle, but no tree is safe while these depredators are at large ; 

 and constables should be required to cany out the laws respecting in- 

 jurious animals in the same way they do to individuals who make 

 themselves a public nuisance. 



KEPOET ON THE SMALL FEUITS OF 1881. 



BY B. GOTT, ARKONA. 



I shall confine myself at present to the notice of those fruits of 

 most promising utility that more immediately come under my direct 

 observation, and of their behaviour with us in the present season. I 

 may be excused in adding that small fruit culture, by which is meant 

 the early summer fruits, is becoming more and more deeply interesting 

 and engrossing to a still greater number of our industrious people. 

 Owing to the indefatigable efforts of the Fruit Growers' Association in 

 this direction, and the fine, "well-adapted locations and soils of our 

 country, this praise-worthy industry is rapidly spreading amongst us 

 on every side. Some growers are reaping — or rather picking — golden 

 harvests in this promising field. There is little doubt that much of 

 this flattering condition of things among us is very largely due to the 

 well disseminated knowledge of the Fruit Growers' Association of 

 Ontario. Their efforts in this respect are laudable, and command the 

 well-informed throughout the country. May this good influence very 

 largely increase in every county. 



As the most popular and acceptable, not to forget the most profit- 

 able, of all the small fruits of this climate, I shall beg first to intro- 

 duce the strawberry, because the public are most anxiously concerned 

 about them, and at the present time anything relating to this savory 

 fruit is most intensely acceptable. I may be excused in omitting a 



