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THE CANADIAN H0ETI0ULTUKI8T. 



numbers of the Horticulturist for the 

 year 1887. Those who send in their 

 subscriptions may have the bulbs men- 

 tioned below if they so desire. 



Fall Distribution of Bulbs. — Any sub- 

 scriber, new or old, sending in his 

 subscription of $1.00 to the Canadian 

 Horticulturist, for either the year 1 887 

 or 1888, between now and the first of 

 November, may have a package of 

 winter flowering bulbs sent him, post 

 paid, early in November next. The 

 package will contain 1 Hyacinth, 1 

 Narcissus and 1 Tulij), all named 

 varieties. As the contract is with a 

 reliable Canadian seedsman, we believe 

 the bulbs will give the best of satisfoc- 

 tion, and we hope may be the means of 

 introducing these floral tx'easures into 

 homes hitherto ungraced by their 

 beauty. 



The Annual Meeting will lie held at 

 either Hamilton or Grimsby, about the 

 last week in September. The annual 

 address of the President will be a 

 j)rominent feature of the occasion, and 

 will be of special interest to apple 

 growers, of wliom we expect to see a 

 lai'ge repre.sentation. 



The Winter Meeting will be held at 

 some ])oint in tlie eastern part of the 

 Province, possibly at Ottawa. 



THE NEW G. T. R. FRUIT CARS. 



On the 21st of June the first of these 

 new special fruit cars passed through 

 Grimsby. As fruit growei'S we hail 

 with gladness any such improvement 

 marking a step in advance in accom- 

 modation for the enlargement of our 

 business. 



The car is a fine large one, similar in 

 size and shape to a j)assenger coach, 

 with the same excellent running gear 

 and easy springs, and is therefore far 

 better than any freight car for the car- 

 riage of tender fruits, especially for 

 long distances. The length of the car 



is about 40 ft. and the width over 9 ft. 

 The car is shelved all around, with a 

 passage lengthwise through the middle 

 as well as aci'oss, thus affording easy 

 access to packages of fruit in any part 

 of the car. The accompanying sketch 

 of a section of this car will aid us in 

 giving our readers some idea of its 

 conveniences : 



G. T. R. FRUIT CAR — SECTION. 



One of these cai"S will pass through 

 the Niagara District every afternoon 

 throughout the fruit season, gathering 

 up fruit for the Montreal market from 

 between the Suspension Bridge and 

 Toi'onto. It will reach Montreal 

 about 9 o'clock the next morning. 



BUDDING. 



The nurseryman's art of budding 

 trees is a very simple operation, and 

 easily learned by any one who is at all 

 handy with his knife. It is so useful, 

 too, that every fruit grower should 

 pi'actice it for himself. Perhaps some 

 of our readers were trying to top-graft 

 their apple trees last spring, and in 

 some instances the scion has failed to 

 grow ; in its place, however, several 

 strong shoots have grown up by the 

 side of the cleft. Now is the time, say 

 from the 1st to the 15th of August, to 

 make up for the failui^e of the graft by 



