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Notes and Comments. 



Fruit ahout Okillia seems to be a 

 pi'otit;il)le crop aceordiiig to the Orillin 

 Packet. One Duchess of 01denbur<,' 

 apple tree, for instance, thirteen years 

 planted, produced last year nine bushels 

 of apples, which sold in that vicinity 

 for. SI per bushel. Our Association iias 

 about forty members at Orillia, prom- 

 inent among whom is Mr. J. Cuppage. 



Peaches will not be so great a failure 

 as we at first anticipated. One bud in 

 twelve surviving counts up to a large 

 number upon a tree, and these sur- 

 vivors are showing up their very best 

 for our encouragement. Indeed the 

 spring opens with favorable prospects 

 for the fruit farmer. The pear trees 

 appear laden with bloom, and so do 

 apple, cherry, and otlier trees. Let our 

 fruit growing fraternity resolve upon 

 giving their orchards the very best of 

 care and culture, and to place such fine 

 samples in our markets that Ainericaii 

 shippers shall be driven out by the dis- 

 parity in the products even in spite of 

 the removal of the import duty. 



Mr. Charles Dhury, of Crownhill, 

 has been made Minister of Agriculture 



for the Province of Ontario. Membei s 

 of our Association will be glad of the 

 appointment to this oflice of one who 

 was one of our Directors for three years, 

 and who has for four or five years been 

 one of the auditors. He is thus in a 

 position to know exactly the faithful 

 work of our Association in the past in 

 advancing the interests of Canadian 

 farmers by educating them in fruit 

 culture, and to give us the benefit of 

 his counsel in carrying out future 

 schemes of usefulness. 



JuDr.iNO Fruits — We hope soon to 

 see a carefully arranged scale of points 

 prepared for the use of judges of fruits 

 at all our exhibitions. In poultry, and 

 in live stock, the work has been reduced 

 to a system, so that something like uni- 

 formity, and fairness may be expected 

 from the judges. But not so with our 

 fruits, which are often judged in a most 

 unfair and unsystematic method. It is 

 time our Association considered this 

 subject most seriously, and appointed 

 a competent committee whose duty it 

 should be to prepare a scale of points 

 which could, on approval, be recom- 

 mended for general adoption by all fair 



