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The Annual and the Winter 

 Meetings of our Association aro hence- 

 forth to be united into one, and to 

 extend over three days time. The 

 result will be, no doubt, an unusually 

 large and interesting gathering. Tiie 

 meeting will be held in the city of 

 Hamilton in February next, a city 

 situated in the heart of the fruit grow- 

 ing districts of Ontario Several gentle 

 men have already promised papers for 

 this meeting, and in order that it may 

 be as varied in programme as possible, 

 we invite members of the Association 

 to send in (questions and subjects for 

 discussion, a full programme of wliiih 

 will appear in January No. 



New Grapes. — We call the especial 

 attention of our readers to the valuable 

 letter from Ampelograph, upon " New 

 Grapes." This letter deserves a more 

 prominent place in our journal than 

 the one it occupies. 



Autumn Work amono Trees. — This 

 is the title of a recent editorial in Tlif 



Garden and Forest, which takes the 

 ground which we have often advocated 

 for Canada, that for our climate spring 

 planting of trees is safer than fall 

 planting. Although, with care, the 

 hardier trees may not be winter killed 

 when planted at this season, yet there 

 is more or less danger of their upheaval 

 by frost, or blown about by the wind. 

 All this has come within our own 

 experience, both with standard apples 

 and dwarf pears. Stone fruits, parti- 

 cularly poaches, should never be planted 

 in the fall in Canada. We give 

 emphasis to this precaution, becau.se 

 so many articles written by 

 nurserymen who are interested in fall 

 sales, have found their way into the 

 public prints, advocating fall planting 

 as tlie most advisable. No doubt this 

 is tl>e best season for selecting the 

 stock from the nursery, before the best 

 is culled out for spring sales, and if 

 one has a dry sandy loam in which to 

 dig a pit and partially bury the trees 



