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never been winter-killed in the least. I think when we consider that the sod ha& 

 remained unbroken all these years, and that the tree is exposed to the winter winds 

 of Lake Huron, and yet presents a healthy appearance, it is good evidence that our 

 prospects of fruit in the future are encouraging. Two miles from the mouth of the 

 Mississiga lliver is a Frenchman who has a plot of seedling apple trees coming on 

 finely ; they are now three years old, and not one of them has ever been injured by 

 winter frosts. We have a greater degree of cold here than in Huron County, but the 

 growth is checked earlier in the fall, and the tree has time to ripen its new wood 

 before the severe frosts come. When I came here last fall, the first of October, the 

 Maples had shed their leaves, and I have learned that this is a peculiarity of the 

 season here. I am satisfied that all the hardy varieties of apple trees and some pears 

 will do well. We have here in the valley of the Mississiga a soil the most perfectly 

 adapted to fruit growing that I have ever seen, and if the climate will prove favorable 

 we shall in a few years produce the highest flavored apple on the east side of this- 

 continent." 



THE BURNET GKAPE. 



llicliard Baijent, Toronto, says : — 



"My Burnet Vine has done famously. It was allowed to ripen six bunches which 

 it did to perection. I felt sorry that I had not exhibited them at the Industrial 

 Exhibition. The vine would have carried more bunches but I had regard to the 

 summer of 1880. I left one bunch on the vine to see how far it would ripen, or gain 

 in flavor or otherwise Ijy being kept on to the latest, but having had some coal 

 delivered that bunch disapeared. There were scores of bunches on other vines equally 

 accessible, but they were not touched. Even my loss was a compliment to my Burnet. 

 I suppose the look of it was too great a temptation, Mr. Marriott had also five or six 

 bunches on his Burnet ; when about ripe they were spirited away by boys who raided 

 his garden, taking those alone." 



EEPORT OF THE ONTARIO SCHOOL OF AGEICULTURE 



FOR 1879. 



The Scliool of Agriculture, in a country whose prosperity depends 

 so completely as does ours upon the judicious cultivation of the soil, 

 is an institution in which every citizen has a deep interest. What is 

 done and taught there will tell with tremendous power upon the 

 future condition of this Province. The day has passed that held it 

 to be quite immaterial whether the tiller of the soil was a man of 

 intelligence or the reverse. We are now alive to the fact that the 

 well informed cultivator has an immense advantage over the unin- 

 formed, and have created this School of Agriculture in order that those 

 who till the soil, whether they be denominated agriculturists or horti- . 

 culturists, may become well informed men in those things which bear 

 directly upon their calling. This then is our apology for calling the 



