THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 91 



THE EEPOET OF THE FEUIT GROWEES' ASSOCIATION 

 OF ONTAEIO FOE 1879. 



This Eeport has been published and distributed to the members, 

 and we presume that a copy of it has before this been received by- 

 each of the members of the Association. We are sure that it contains . 

 practical information of great value, and that the Eeport alone is well 

 worth the annual fee paid by the members, and we trust that it will 

 often prove to them a valuable assistant and guide. From among the 

 many appreciative letters that have been received by the Secretary, 

 we select to lay before our readers one that was received from the Hon, 

 Marshall P. Wilder, President of the American Pomological Society, 

 than whom there is no one more competent to judge of its merits. We 

 do this not from any desire to glorify ourselves, but that our members 

 may know the estimate put upon their report by a gentleman who has 

 spent a life time in horticultural pursuits, and for full half a century 

 has stood in the front rank among American pomologists. 



Boston, March 28, 1880. 

 My Dear Sir, 



I have received two reports of your Fruit Growers' Association, for one 

 of which I am, I presume, indebted to your kindness. Thanks for it. I 

 have perused it with great interest, and am happy to state that I consider 

 it a remarkable document, evincing tlie great enterprise, care, and good 

 judgment which characterize the fruit growers of Ontario. I have seldom 

 read a report that contains so much pertinent, well-timed, practical and 

 useful information. The address of the President is very able, as well as 

 ornate, just what is needed on such occasions, gathering up the results and 

 progress of the year. Your association is a noble, live institution, one of 

 the best of our age. May God prosper it. Yours as ever, 



Marshall P. Wilder. 



COEEESPONDENCE. 



CALLA CULTURE. 



Jas. MacPherson, BrockvLlle, Ont., writes : 



The reason many fail with the African Calla is because they remove 

 all the suckers, and keep them growing all the year. This is all wrong. 

 Water should be gradually withheld from the middle of April, and the 

 plants planted in the richest soil in the garden. about the middle of May. 

 They will then die down and rest, and start to grow about August. In 

 early September pot in rich soil and keep growing, at a temperature of 50 

 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit. 



