Clje faairian Partimltarist 



VOL. III.] AUGUST, 1880. [No. 8v 



the summee meeting of the fruit growers* 



association: 



The summer meeting was held in the City Hall, Guelph, on 

 Tuesday and Wednesday, July 6th and 7th, 1880. 



There was a goodly representation present from various parts of 

 Ontario, extending eastward to the County of Renfrew and westward 

 to Lambton. 



The President and Vice-President being absent, the Secretary 

 called the meeting to order, and stated that the President had removed 

 his residence since our last meeting to Pictou, Nova Scotia, and that 

 he had received a telegram from the Vice-President saying that he 

 would not be able to be ptesent^ which the Secretary feared was owing 

 to the ill-health of our much esteemed Vice-President, a letter having 

 been received from him a short time ago in which he expressed fear 

 lest his health should not admit of his attendance at the meeting. 



P. E. Bucke, Esq., of Ottawa, was called to the Chair, and after the 

 reading of the minutes of the winter meeting, the Association proceeded 

 to the discussion of the question, "Which varieties of Strawberries are 

 least injured by the late frosts ?" 



In reply to this inquiry it was stated that as a matter of course 

 the later any variety came into bloom the more likely it would be to 

 escape the spring frosts, but that usually the late blooming varieties 

 were also late in ripening. Also that those varieties which had an 

 ample supply of foliage reaching above the fruit stalks were less liable 

 to suffer, because the leaves, in some measure at least, protected the 

 blossoms. 



Mr. Gilchrist remarked that they were very liable to have late 

 frosts at Guelph, and that he had not observed any marked difference 

 in varieties with regard to their ability to resist frost, or to the blossoms 

 escaping the effect of the frost by reason of being protected by the 



