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THE CANADIAN H0ETICULTUKI8T. 



sunshine, needs no human basting. 

 Its veins are sweet with fragrant dew 

 formed into life by soft sighing winds. 

 The ardent kisses of the summer sun 

 paints the bhishing cheek of the vel- 

 vety peach, and fills with wine the 

 purple grapes ensphered in purple 

 luxuriance that drop through the leafy 

 roof of trellised arches. Such a break- 

 fast is patriarchal. It has a flavor of 

 Arcadian days and the mythological 

 age of a dead past. — Ex. 



FRUITS FOR STOCK. 



When some of my pear trees littered 



the ground with their ripe mellow 



fruit, I fed them to my cows. A peck 



of pears with two quarts of meal and 



bi-an for a noonday feed, increased the 

 milk and butter fully one fourth, and 

 when the apples wei-e ripe and only 50 

 cents a bushel could be got for them in 

 the market, the horses, cows, pigs and 

 fowls had all they wanted and the ripe 

 fruit did them a good deal of good. 

 Some farmers give the wind-falls — 

 wormy, hard, gnarled fruit — to their 

 animals and complain that they are 

 unwholesome. And why not? Are 

 they wholesome for themselves 1 Do 

 they not suffer the pains and penalties 

 of eating hard unripe apples'? Why 

 should they expect their stock to escape 

 similar consequences ? Give only ripe 

 sound fruit to the animals, they will 

 be greatly benefited by it. — H. S. in 

 Orchard and Garden. 



Wm CHanaiiian horticulturist. 



^N Illus 

 trated 

 Monthly Journal, de- 

 I voted to the interests 

 of Fruit Growers, 

 Gardeners, and Gentle- 

 men owning rural or su- 

 burban homes. 



Subscription price $1.00 

 per year, entitling the subscri- 

 ber to membership of the Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Association of Ontario and all its 

 privileges, including a copy of its 

 valuable Annual Report, and a share in its 

 annual distribution of plants and trees. 



This Journal is not published in the in- 

 terests, or for the pecuniary advantage of 

 any one, but its pages are devoted wholly to 

 the progress of Horticultural Science and 

 Art in Canada. 



The Annual Report and Premiums were 

 sent out to all those who had paid their 

 subscriptions before 1st May, 1887. If 

 any who paid previous to that date have 

 failed to receive it, will they please 

 notify the Secretary by post card. The 

 Report of the Entomological Society is 

 now being sent out to all those who 

 were marked 



Paid '87 on the 1st of August last. 

 Those who have paid since May 1st, 

 when our Report for 86 was distributed, . 

 may have a copy of the valuable Report 

 of 1874 as a substitute by sending the 

 Secretary a post card to that efiect. 



No Premium. — If any member who paid 

 previous to April 87, failed to receive 

 the tree or plant chosen, would he please 

 notify the Secretary. 



Immature Peaches. — ^The Toronto Globe 

 says : " The early peach does not taste 

 materially different from a raw squash. 

 But the early peach brings wealth all 

 the same." This is a comment upon 

 growers who will insist on picking 

 Alexanders and Hales' Earlys as soon 



