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stock for this purpose he advises the 

 Oldenbui-g, or Tetofsky. 



Prof. Wm. Brown has retired from 

 the chair of Agriculture, at the Ontario 

 Agricultural College, Guelph. His 

 ability has been generally acknow- 

 ledged and he carries away the assur- 

 ance of the high estimation in which he 

 is held both by his students and by the 

 general public. Mr. Thomas Shaw, 

 editor of the Canadian Live Stock 

 Journal, and Secretary of the Central 

 Farmers' Institute, lias received the 

 appointment as his successor. The 

 ({ualitications needed for such a position 

 are rare ; as for instance both a practi- 

 cal and theoretical acquaintance with 

 Canadian Agriculture; a first-class gene- 

 ral education, and aptness to teach. Mr. 

 Shaw is a successful farmer, an untir- 

 ing student, and well-fitted to instruct ; 

 therefore we think there can be no 

 mistake in his appointment. 



The Lucretia Dewberry is wholly 

 condemned in the R.N. Y. of August 11. 

 The berry is large, early and a good 

 quality, but it is no better than such up- 

 right growers as Kittatinny,Lawton, etc. 

 and its prickly leaves and spreading 

 canes of some twelve feet in length are 

 serious objections. " Our final opin- 

 ion," says the editor, " of the Luci'etia 

 is that if we were obliged to have 

 Lucretias, or go without blackberries, 

 we should vote to go without." 



We do not feel prepared to sound 

 the death warrant of the Lucretia quite 

 so soon, although it may prove just in 

 the end. Our hope was that its trail- 

 ing habit would enable it to pass the 

 winters uninjured, quite far north, and 

 thus provide this refreshing fruit where 

 it would be more appreciated than in 

 such a land of plenty as the neighbor- 

 hood of New York City, or of Grimsby. 

 We shall be pleased to hear from mem- 

 bers of our Association their experi- 

 ence of this summer with the Lucretia. 



OsTHEiM Cherry. — Mr. J. L. Budd, 

 of Iowa, writes the American Garden 

 that he had, on June 4th, several hardy 

 dwarf cherry trees in bearing, and that, 



notwithstanding a previous severe win- 

 ter, the little round-topped trees were 

 well loaded with half-grown fruit. Of 

 the Cerise de Ostlieim he says : " All 

 things considered, we think this the 

 most valuable of the Ostheim family. 

 It comes into fruiting when only four 

 or five feet in height, and is very hardy 

 in tree and in fruit buds. Fruit larger 

 than Early Richmond, with small pit, 

 flesh and juice, red ; tender, juicy, and 

 when ripe nearly sweet." 



It was the Ostheim cherry which was 

 distributed last spring to the members 

 of our Association. 



Algonquin Forest. — It is proposed 

 to form an immense forest preserve 

 about the head waters of the Muskoka 

 river and the feeders of the Ottawa 

 river, a well-watered and well- wooded 

 territory of nearly 400,000 acres in all. 

 This would be known as the Algonquin 

 Forest, and, under the management of 

 a skilled forester would not only exert 

 a direct influence upon the water 

 supply of our country, but would be a 

 source of permanent supply of lumber, 

 instead of being mismanaged and 

 destroyed in the present reck less fashion . 

 Even the passing tourist can't help 

 observing the sa.d disfigurement that is 

 rapidly defacing that country through 

 forest fires and reckless methods of 

 lumbering. Our foresters should awake 

 to the importance of pressing such a 

 wise measure upon the notice of our 

 Government. 



Rose Aphis. — According to the 

 Canadian Entomologist^^lv. A. R. Grote 

 has been quite successful in his experi- 

 ments with a weak solution of Creolin 

 upon Rose Aphides, without in the least 

 damaging the plants. He thinks this 

 disinfectant may prove an exceedingly 

 valuable help to the gardener. 



An Apple and Pear Conference, 

 according to the London Eveninc/ 

 Post, is to be held in the gardens of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society in 

 Cheswick next October. The notion 

 of the benefit of such a meeting, annu- 

 ally, seems to be derived from the use- 



