160 IHE CANADIAN HORTICULTUKIST. 



COERESPONDENCE. 



D. B. HOOVEB's apple. 



Mr. Hoover writes us that he has received a letter from the 

 Canadian nurserymen to whom he wrote stating the treatment he had 

 received at the hands of an agent supposing him to be in their employ, 

 to the effect that they had no agent acting for them at that time. This 

 much Mr. Hoover thinks is due to the Canadian nurserymen. 



A VETERAN MEMBER. 



Mr. Geo.^Winslow, Millbrook, writes that a man who cannot cross 

 the floor without the assistance of a stick ouglit to give up gardening, 

 but nevertheless he sends his subscription for this year, saying : — 



I think your Association has done good to the country, and I hope it 

 may get on well ; there is much good information in its publications. I 

 expect the Burnet Grape and Glapp's Favoi-ite Pear to fruit this year. I 

 liave at j^resent three kinds of raspberry ; the Diadem is much the same as 

 one of those I had. The Isabella Grape does not ripen every year. I can- 

 not get what I call good gooseberries ; they are far inferior to those I had 

 in poor Ireland. I got a Yew tree from there last year ; it looks delicate, 

 the winter has been too severe for it. I think the Crofton Apple, so well 

 known in the north of Ireland, would do well here ; it is a hardy winter 

 fruit. 



Wheeling, West Virginia, Sept. 23rd, 1880. 



Dear Sir: — With the greatest pleasure I have seen in l^o. 7, Vol. Ill 

 of the Canadian Horticulturist, that an interest for a flora of Canada 

 lias been awakened amongst the members of the Fruit Growers' Association 

 of Ontario. During my stay of five years in Canada I very often have felt 

 the need of such a work. A few years ago I commenced to write a flora 

 of the Province of Ontario, and to illustrate it by drawings made by myself 

 according to nature. It is indeed a diflicult enterprise, but having formed 

 the plan once it should not be laid aside unfulfilled. In my hours of leisure 

 I have completed nearly 200 plates, and hope to bring tlie whole work to 

 an end with the spring of 1881. If an occasion should oS'er I would not 

 fail to lay before you for examination that part which is done, in order to 

 have your judgment. Having lost different species of the Cyperacece and 

 Grammineda. I wish to ask you to publish this in your next number, and 

 to request at the same time those members who have collected Cyper. Gravi. 

 to send me their address, so that I can enter into correspondence with them. 



Hoping my petition will be granted, 



I remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

 Rev. a. Schaffranek, 

 Phil. D., and President of the Natural History Society of West Virginia, 



Box 424, Wheeling, W. Virginia. 



