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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



50 cents for 8 months. — This Journal is 

 offered for eight months, beginning 

 with May No., to new subscribers, for 

 50 cents. We hope all friends of the 

 Association will take this opportunity 

 to increase its usefulness by largely ex- 

 tending the circulation of the Horticul- 

 turist. 



Bound Volumes of this journal may be 

 had in clotli at $1 each from this office. 

 Vols. VII., VIII. and IX. have colored 

 plates ; Vols. I. and II., and Vols. III. 

 and IV., not having colored plates, are 

 bound together and sold as one volume. 



Shorthand Wreckers, is the caption of an 

 article in the G osmojwlitan Shorthander 

 which rather interests us. In it the 

 Fruit Growers' Association is compared 

 to a noble ship, and the reporter of 

 our Winter Meeting at Stratford to a 

 wrecker who, under the guise of a skil- 

 ful mariner, undertook to navigate into 

 the fair port of Brevier the stately 

 vessel. It gives examples of a few of 

 the pieces of wreckage, only too fa- 

 miliar to the Secretary, and which 

 may interest some others as literary 

 curiosities. Here are some specimens : 



" 'Mr. C. — What do you find hardy here 

 and make nice plants ? 



Mr. A.— What Mr. B. said. I think the 

 Norway Spruce is a very good tree, it makes 

 a good protection. The EngHsh Thome the 

 insects seems to destroy the leaves, and it 

 doesn't seem to stand the spring frost. 



Mr. C. — Have you tried Veitchii ? Lilacs 

 are all hardy. 



Mr. F. — How is Japanese Snow Balls ? 



Mr. E. — Can you grow Sponkers ? 



Mr. A. — They grow very little. 



Mr. C. — I think with Red Cedar or Arbor 

 Vitse. 



Mr. B.— I like Red Cedar. 



Mr. D. — The question by the Secretary to 

 that unpronounceable word Veitchii, that is 

 not hardy. I was a little erratical about 

 that. It killed within four or five inches. 



Mr. B. * * * I was very much amused 

 when in the west on passing a large wheat 

 field to see some two or three hundred head 

 of cattle having the peculiarity of our cows. 

 There was no dash, nothing of the sort, they 

 were in a good pasture field. There was no 



trouble of them getting across the Une, and 

 seeing that these cattle were not scattering 

 through this large wheat field ; looking for 

 a little distance I saw some of the native 

 ponies with little boys on them, they were a 

 short distance away, if the cows moved 

 oway from the rest they would give a pe- 

 culiar whistle that made the cow turn tail 

 back. There is wire fences there.' 



These extracts may serve to still 

 further explain the reason why our Re- 

 port for 1886 is so much smaller than 

 usual. We could not avoid crossing 

 out page after page of such nonsense, 

 and then we made the best sense pos- 

 sible of the rest. 



We are glad to be able to announce 

 that the services of Mr. Thos. Ben- 

 gough, official reporter, Toronto, have 

 been engaged for our summer meeting 

 at Collingwood. It is only neccessary 

 to mention this gentleman's name to 

 assure our readers of a faithful report 

 of the meeting. 



The next Biennial Meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Pomological Society will be held 

 at Boston, commencing on Wednesday, 

 September 14, 1887, at 10 a.m., and 

 continue for three days. 



The venerable President, M. P. 

 Wilder, had hoped to live to meet his 

 friends once more so near home, but 

 his life was not spai-ed to realize this 

 ambition, to the great regret of all 

 concerned. In the meantime, Mr. P. 

 Barry, of Rochester, the First Vice- 

 President, is called upon to fill the 

 President's office. 



All horticultural, pomological, agri- 

 cultural and other kindred associations 

 in the United States and British Pro- 

 vinces are invited to send delegates. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society has appropriated the sum of 

 $500 to be offered in special prizes for 

 fruits to be exhibited during the meet- 

 ing. 



The Balsam Fir and the Norway Spruce are 

 both severely condemned by the Rural 

 New Yorker for ornamental planting. 



