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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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The Summer meeting was held at 

 Janesville, where an interesting diver- 

 sion was made in a visit to the fruit of 

 farm of Mr. F. W. Loudon, the home 

 of the Jessie Strawberry. Mr. Loudon 

 gave an interesting account of his 

 method of raising seedling strawberries, 

 and reaffirmed his statement that the 

 Jessie had yielded at the rate of four 

 hundred bushels per acre. 



The report contains a great deal that 

 is atti'active to the popular reader, as 

 well as to the professional horticultur- 

 ist, and the meetings appear to partake 

 more of that character than do our own. 



It is an unfortunate feature of the 

 book that so many typographical errors 

 should have crept into the text un- 

 corrected. 



Biennial Ueport of the State Boari) of 

 Horticulture of the State of California, 

 for 1885 and 1886. B. M. Lelong, Secre- 

 tary, 220 Sutter St., San Francisco. 



A closely printed -volume, botmd in 

 cloth, containing 583 pages. It is full 

 of matter of the greatest interest to 

 fruit growers on the Pacitic coast, treat- 

 ing in a scientific as well as a practical 

 manner of the cultivation, marketing, 

 insect enemies, and diseases of the 

 orange, fig, olive in particular, and 

 also to some extent the peach, grape, 

 pear and other fruits grown by us. 



The benefits of organization are 

 clearly shown in the successful efforts 

 of the California Fruit Union in 

 securing favorable contracts for special 

 fruit trains to deliver their fruit in 

 eastern cities. These trains run on 

 passenger time, and the rate is $300 

 per car. 



Wisconsin Farmers Institutes, 1887. 



Bulletin No. 1. W. H. Morrison, Supt., 



11 Capitol, Madison, Wis. Cloth, 230 



pages. 



The wisdom and energy with which 

 the Farmei's' Institutes in the State of 

 "Wisconsin are conducted, is well evi- 

 denced by the production of such a I 



volume as this, containing the cream 

 of the papers that were read at the 

 meetings during winter of 1886-1887, 

 with some of the discussions thereon. 

 The culture of fruits is one of the topics 

 of discussion, and some fourteen pages 

 are given to ij. All the discussions 

 are purely of a scientific and practically 

 useful character, and nothing in the 

 way of ])olitical discussions are allowed, 

 which we consider a commendable 

 feature. 



Circular and Programme of the Joint 

 Annual meetiug of the Michigan Horticul- 

 tural Society, and the Michigan Bee- 

 keepers' Association, at East Saginaw, 

 December, 6. 7, 8, 9, and 10, 1887. C. 

 W. Garfield, Grand Rapids, Mich., Sec. 

 of the Michigan Horticultural Society. 



Prize List Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. Spring Fowering Bulbs and 

 Forced Vegetables, Jan., Feb. and March 

 1886. Boston. 



T. Takenaka & Co.'s Price List of the Jap- 

 anese Vegetable, Flower, Fruit, and Tree 

 Seeds, and Plants, Flowering Bulbs &c. 

 The Mita Seed Eaising establishment, No. 

 1 Shikokumachi, Mita, Tokio, Japan. 



Circular Warfield No. 2 Strawberry. 

 B. C. Warfield. Sandoval. Illinois. 



A gardener who recently receiv^ed a 

 sound rating from his master, a land- 

 owner of Normandy, turned indignantly 

 upon him with the remark, " You need 

 not treat me like a common fellow. I'd 

 have you to know I am the nephew of 

 Louvel, who assassinated the Due de 

 Berry." 



The strawberry does its work on 

 business principles. It sends out run- 

 ners this year to work up business for 

 next. — Western Ploivman. 



She : Have you seen the Chimpan- 

 zees up at the Park ? He : No, are 

 they in bloom now ] She : Are what 

 in bloom 1 He : Whv the Jim Pansies. 



