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THE OA.NADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



apples usually counted hardy, but 

 proved to be olily half hardy, and con- 

 sidered dangerous to plant in large 

 quantities. The kinds mentioned are 

 -Mann, Bethel, Walbridge, Haas, Pee- 

 waukee, Alexander, Borsdorf, North- 

 ern Spy, Salome, Utter, Fameuse, and 

 Wolf River. 



Transactions cf the Indiana Horti- 

 cultural Society, for the year 1886. 

 Cloth. CM. Hobbs, Bridgeport, Secretary. 



In this report are include I })apers 

 and discussions on the folio Nving sub- 

 jects : Village Improvement- Associa- 

 tions, Ethics of Horticulture, The old 

 Grape Vine on the Wall, A glance at 

 Horticultural Interests in England, 

 Grafting and Budding, The other side 

 of Fruit Culture, Ornamentation of 

 School Property, &c. 



Transactions of the Massachusetts 



Horticultural Society, for the year 



1S8G. Part II. Kobt. Mauuiag, Boston, 



Secretary. 

 Fifth Annual Report of the Ohio 



Agricultiu;d Experiment Station for 1886. 



W. it. Lazenby, Secretary of the Board 



of Control, Columbus, Ohio. 

 Report of the Entomologist, 1885. 



Jas. Fletcher, Department of Agriculture, 



Ottawa. 



(Correspondence, and small packages 

 containing insects for identification 

 lujiy be sent by mail, and will receive 

 prompt attention.) 



Report of Sir Charles Tupper, 

 G.C.M.G., C.B., Executive Cdmmis- 

 sioner on the Cauathan Section of the 

 Colonial and Indian Exhibition at South 

 Kensington, 1886. 



The North- West of Canada. A 

 general Hketch puljlished by authority of 

 the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. 



Calendar of Queen's College and 

 University, Kingston, Canada, for the 

 year 1887-88. 



Seventeenth Annual Report of the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario. 



Copies of this Report will be sent to 

 members of the Fruit Growers' Asso- 

 ciation in course of time. 



im0rou0. 



" What do you grow on this land ? " he 

 inquired of the farmer who was leaning 

 over a fence inspecting a particularly bar- 

 ren piece of ground. "Grow lazy," was 

 the satisfactory reply. — Field and Farm. 



A BOOK of rules for playing lawn-tennis 

 lias been published, but it omits the nidst 

 important rule of all for beginners, wliich 

 is : First get your lawn. — SomerviUe Jour- 

 nal. 



What's in a name/ An exhibitor, 

 writes a correspondent, at the last annual 

 show of a provincial Society, divided a 

 sample of peaches, entering one half in his 

 own name, and the other in the name of a 

 gentleman of local prominence. His own 

 half was passed over, but the other sample 

 took the prize proving that there is some- 

 thing in a name after all. — Hort. Times. 



' ' I hear that your husband is very iU,' 

 said Mrs. Philpot. " Yea, poor fellow,'' 

 replied Mrs. Snooper, " he leads such a 

 sedimentary life that Ins health is shat- 

 tered." 



A Healthful Fkuit. — A lazy dyspep- 

 tic was bewailing his own misfortunes, and 

 speaking with a friend on the latter's 

 heiilthy appearance . ' ' What do you do to 

 make you so strong and healtliy / " in- 

 quired tlie dyspeptic. " Live on fruit 

 alone," answered his friend. " What kind 

 of fruit?" "The fruit of industry; audi 

 am never troubled with indigestion." — 

 PeojAe's Henlth Journal. 



Made in vane — a weather-cock. 



" Epkuji, wliat makes so many cat-tads 

 grow in this here pon' / " '' VVell, I would 

 say, doan you know ? Why dey grows up 

 from kittens that people luvs drowned in 

 the pon' of course. 'Pears like you wim- 

 men folks doan know nuffin' 'bimt agi'i- 

 cultshah. — A7n. Garden. 



It is as difficult to catalogue books as it 

 is to catalogue some other things. A 

 librarian in a Boston library lately con- 

 fessed that a work on " Greek Pcjots " was 

 found entered under agriculture, and a 

 book entitled "The Fountain of Life" 

 under water. — Christian Register. 



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