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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



the lawn. They should receive a heavy- 

 coat of well rotted manure in the fall ; 

 and in the summer from the middle of 

 May till the middle of June, liquid 

 manure should be applied. This can 

 easily be prepared by placing half a 

 bushel of cow manure in a barrel of 

 water. The liquid should be applied 

 each evening. 



Among other excellent varieties he 

 mentioned the M. P. Wilder first. It 

 has more points of excellence than any 

 other, being beautiful in all stages of 

 bloom and quite continuous. The New 

 England Hope is a fine dark rose. 

 Baron Bonstetten is rugged in consti- 

 tution. Among light colored roses he 

 would place Victor Verdier first, and 

 of white roses he would class Mabel 

 Morrison as the best. Of the Teas he 

 thought the two most satisfactory were 

 the La France and the Capt. Christie. 



The next question considered was : 

 "Is it true that 



APPLES AND PEARS 



a^re smaller and less perfect now than 

 in early days'?" Mr. Green thought 

 they were, and the reason was because 

 the native fertility had passed away, 

 and insects and diseases had multiplied. 



Mr. S. D. Willard thought that such 

 specimens of apples, and particularly, 

 such magnificent pears as President 

 Barry had placed on the table, went to 

 prove that those fruits were not degen- 

 erating. Never had such fine Beurre 

 il'Anjou pears been exhibited there be- 

 fore. 



President Barry said : " I think that 

 what Mr. Green has stated is quite 

 true. We are sufieiing from exhaus- 

 tion of the soil, but it is also certainly 

 true that we can grow as fine fruits 

 now as ever we did, only the soil may 

 require a little more manure now than 

 formerly. 



The cultivation which those pears 

 received was not unusual. When my 

 trees show the need of fertilizers they 



get it ; perhaps once in two years. I 

 don't think there ever was a time when 

 pears could be cultivated with more 

 ease than at present. There never was 

 a time when we were so little troubled 

 with pe^ir blight as now. About thirty 

 years ago we thought of giving up pear 

 culture, owing to the blight ; but, gen- 

 tlemen, I think there is every encour- 

 agement now for fruit growers to extend 

 the cultivation of the pear." 



THE KIEFFER PEAR 



was commended in the report from 

 Ontario County as being an exception 

 to the genei^al failure of the pear crop 

 the last season. Its fruit was perfect, 

 and sold this season better than any 

 other variety. 



Mr. Green said the Kieffer j>ear had 

 this year developed a better quality 

 than was usual with it. It could really 

 be eaten this season with some comfort. 



Mr. J. J. Thomas read a very inter- 

 esting paper on " The Past,^ Present, 

 and Future of Fruit Culture" which 

 he concluded by showing that every 

 farmer ought to have at least five acres 

 of a 



HOME FRUIT GARDEN 



to supply his own family, leaving out 

 altogether the question of the planting 

 of an orchard for market pui'poses. 

 And one department of our work for 

 our pomological societies in the future 

 was to difiuse a correct knowledge of 

 fine varieties of fruit among our people 

 generally, together with the best modes 

 of cultivating and using it. 



We were sorry to have come away 

 before all the questions were discussed, 

 but glad of the privilege of meeting so 

 many experienced horticulturists, and 

 of bringing away these scraps of infor- 

 mation for the benefit of our readers. 



THE CANADIAN TROPHY. 



Having been favored with an excel- 

 lent cut of the Canadian trophy, by 

 Canada's High Commissioner in Eng- 



