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A New Year's Greeting. 



With this issue the Canadian Hor- 

 ticulturist greets its three thousand 

 readers in a new costume, hoping by 

 its cheery monthly visits to aid in 

 making the New year a happy and a 

 prosperous one to them all. 



At considerable expense the Execu- 

 tive Committee has had a new and 

 beautiful engraving made for the cover, 

 enlarged the journal into a better foim, 

 secured a better quality of papei-, and 

 more expensive illustrations ; contident 

 that our readers will so appreciate our 

 efforts in their behalf as to sustain our 

 venture with a largely increased sub- 

 scription list. 



Hints for the Month. 

 Accounts.— On the 1st of January, 

 every one who is making a business of 

 fruit culture, or of gardening, should 

 balance up his accounts for the old 

 yeiir, and be able to say just how much 

 hisnet profitshave been fortheyear past. 

 Then lie should open his accounts for the 

 year. 1 1 will be wise to keep a separate 

 account of the exjjenses and proceeds 



of each kind of fruit in one book, thus 

 proving wliich is most profitable; in 

 another an account of the daily sales 

 or shipments through the season ; and 

 in another a cash account. In this way 

 only can the commercial orchardist be 

 master of his business. 



Reading.— Amid such stores of useful 

 information, that man is foolish who 

 pursues his vocation with eyes and ears 

 closed. In almo.st every department 

 there are now standard books of infor- 

 mation, and the leisure of winter is the 

 time to read and study these sources of 

 knowledge. For instance, on the orchard 

 we have Doioniny's Fruits o/ America, 

 77iotnns' American Fruit Culturist, War- 

 der's American Fomofo;/}/, besides num- 

 erous special works on the apple, pear, 

 peach, grape, small fruits, etc., etc. And 

 the Canadianfruit-growerwilllind intlie 

 ten volumes which have been publisiied 

 of the Canadian Horticulturist, and 

 in the eighteen annual reports of 

 discussions and papers on fruit culture 

 re d at the meetings of our As.sociation, 

 a compendium of indispensable infor- 

 mation, just adapted to our Canadian 

 climate. 



