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come to Canada and share in our ad- 

 vantages. Most of them have a few- 

 thousand dollars to invest, and gener- 

 ally give a preference to mixed farming 

 and fruit growing. By last mail I have 

 a letter from a gentleman in Brazil, 

 who has a good capital, and will be in 

 Toronto in July next, when I am to 

 have ready for him a list of such farms 

 as I suppose may suit his purpose for 

 general farm crops, fruits and stock- 

 raising. 



Returning to the Colonial fruits. In 

 future, should our Government desire 

 to have Canadian fruits exhibited in 

 British exhibitions — and I sincerely 

 hope they will, — I would be in favor 

 of exhibiting only fresh fruits in season. 

 I found a very general feeling of un- 

 belief as to the genuineness of our bot- 

 tled specimens existed. I have often 

 heard it remarked, that so far as the 

 public was concerned, these specimen 

 might as well be in wax, for very many 

 believed them to be such, and many 

 more doubted their genuineness. But 

 when we placed the fresh specimens in 

 plates upon the tables, all doubting was 

 at an end. It paid Canada well to ad- 

 vertise in this way, and it would pay 

 to keep up such an advertisement every 

 season. 



CANADIAN FRUITS AT THE COLONIAL. 



SELECTED FROM THE REPORT OF THE FRUIT COMMITTEE 



OF THE ROYAL HORTICI'LTURAL SOCIETT, 



LORD RIVERS, CHAIRMAN. 



The collection of hardy fruits exhibi- 

 ted by the Canadian Commission com- 

 pi-ised an extensive collection of apples, 

 pears, grapes, &c., from the provinces 

 of Ontario, Columbia, Quebec, Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick, &c. 



Apples constituted the most promi- 

 nent and important feature, and proved 

 of much interest to the Committee, 

 many of the samples shown being of 

 large size, and extremely handsome in 

 appeai-ance, — the high coloration of 

 many being especially remarkable and 



noteworthy, — greatly excelling, in this 

 respect, the same varieties grown in 

 this country. 



The collection of pears did not pre- 

 sent such an attractive appearance. 

 Some very fine samples were, however, 

 shown of Beurre Clairgeau, Beurre 

 Hardy, Beun-e D ' Anjou, Duchess, 

 Flemish Beauty, Louise, Onondaga, &c. 



Grapes made a conspicuous display ;: 

 but of these, as dessert fruit, no opinion 

 could be expressed — the peculiar foxy 

 taste and gelatinous flesh belonging to 

 the grapes of America, requii'ing some 

 experience to discriminate. Some of 

 Rogers' seedlings were remarked as 

 both large and handsome. 



FRUIT EXHIBITS AT THE COLINDERIES. 



The Annual Meeting of the Nova 

 Scotia Fruit Growers' Association was 

 held at Wolfville, N. S., on the 19th 

 and 20th of Januaiy. The principal 

 feature of the morning session of the 

 second day was the Secretary's Report 

 on Fruit Exhibits at the Colonial Ex- 

 hibition. Mr. Starr clearly pointed 

 out how not only Nova Scotia but the 

 whole of the provinces of the Dominion 

 had been benefited by the grand dis- 

 play which had been made, how a greatly 

 increased demand had been created for 

 our fruits, and the way prepared by 

 w^hich new markets might be opened 

 up for Canadian pi'oducts in other 

 European countries. Mr. Starr was 

 followed by Professor Saunders, who 

 explained the manner in which the 

 multitude of varieties of fruits had been 

 preserved for this exhibition, the many 

 devices resorted to, and the great suc- 

 cess which had attended the effoi-t. By 

 convincing evidence, he showed that 

 the fruit display had done more towards 

 removing tlie ill-founded prejudices ex- 

 isting in Europe against the climate of 

 Canada than any measure ever before 

 undertaken by this country, and ex- 

 pressed his strong convictions that 



