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business he has been awarded at exhi- 

 l)itions many i/oM, silver ami brovzf 

 iiK'ihih, a large number of diplomas and 

 hundreds of other prizes foi- superiority 

 of productions. In the year 1880 a 

 s/iecidl silver medal was presented to 

 him by the Agricultural and Arts As- 

 sociation of Ontario. The inscription 

 thereon reads: "To Geo. Leslie, si-., in 

 grateful acknowledgments for his hor- 

 ticultural efforts, by the Council of 

 Agriculture and Arts Association of 

 Ontario." When the first fire company 

 was formed in York he became a mem- 

 ber. In 1803 he was commissioned 

 a magistrate bv the Hon. Robert Bald- 



win, the duties of which ofHce he has 

 ever since disdiarged with fidelity. He 

 tilled the office of school tru.stee for nine 

 years and was for one year alderman 

 for the city, but did not seek re-elec- 

 tion, not being inclined to neglect his 

 busine.ss to engage in political strife. 



His two sons are associated with him 

 in the business. 



He has two daughters, both married. 

 The elder to Mr. R. C. Jennings, man- 

 ager of the Bank of Commerce at Paris, 

 and the younger to Mr. A. McD. Allan, 

 the present president of the Fruit- 

 (Jrowers Association. 



POMOLOGICAL. 



The Wealthy Apple. 



The following statements concerning 

 this very desirable hardy apple were 

 made at tlie meeting of the Montreal 

 Horticultural Society, at Granby, P.(.^., 

 last year : — 



Mr Shepherd — I think I was the 

 first to fruit the Wealtliy in Quebec, at 

 least I was the first to exhibit it at the 

 Montreal Horticultural Exhibition. It 

 resembles the Fameusf^ a little : it is a 

 juicy apple, more juicy than the 

 Fameuse, a little more acid, and of 

 very fine flavor — a peculiar flavor. Tt 

 is more of the Spitzenburgh than the 

 Fameuse. 1 can tell one circumstance 

 which makes me think it is a good 

 apple. My children and wife, and any 

 ladies stopping at my place in the 

 autunm, always choose a Wealthy ; 

 they have twenty or thirty varieties to 

 choose from, but they always choose 

 that. Children know v«»ry well when 

 an apple is good, and when they are at 

 liberty to choose from several, and al- 

 ways eat one variety, you may rest 

 assured they know what they are about. 



Mr. Honey — As far as the Wealthy 

 tree is concerned, I find it is not as 

 hardy as the Duchess. I have quite a 

 few -planted about the .same time as 



Mr. Shepherd's. 1 have perhaps twenty 

 of them. This year I lost two from be- 

 ing heavily loaded, and on others one 

 or two of the branches have broken otf'. 

 That is one objection I have, and an- 

 other objection is that the stern is rather 

 long and like the crab, so that it does 

 not hold the fruit well. I have not 

 been able to keep theni as Avell as the 

 Fameuse, l)ut I do not think I had one 

 spotted one in my orchard. This year 

 they were not so well colored as usual, 

 but they were free from spots, good 

 size and good cookers. Of course if 

 you take the Fameuse and sort them to 

 get them as clean as the Wealthy, the 

 Fameuse will sell better, but there is 

 more money in the Wealthy. 



Chairman Is there any ditt'erence 

 in the keeping (jualities .' 



Mr. Honey— Not with me ; I have 

 found them to keep about the same. 



Mr. Shepherd — With regard to the 

 keeping (|ualities of the Wealthy, if you 

 allow it to get ripe on the tree it will 

 not keep as well as the Fameuse. With 

 regard to the salability of the Wealthy, 

 last year my experience with Fanieuse 

 was that DO per cent, were so bad I 

 could hardly sell them, whereas I do not 

 believe there was five per cent, of the 



