THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 179 



TO MEMBERS OF THE FEUIT GROWER'S ASSOCIATION. 



The present number concludes another year of the Canadian Ilor- 

 iicultmist. It is hoped that you have found it to be of some benefit 

 to you, that it has kept you informed of the progress of horticulture, 

 has brought to your notice the important recent introductions in fruits 

 and flowers, and helped to extend your acquaintance with such trees 

 and phints as promise to be valuable in our climate. 



The Directors desire to issue a sufficient edition of this monthly 

 to meet the requirements of members, and to enable them to do so, 

 they most earnestly request that you would renew your subscription 

 by the first of January, 1881. If the members would only be punc- 

 tual to do this, the Directors could form a very accurate estimate of 

 the edition required, and be able to bring the cost of publication to 

 the smallest possible limit. Will you not help them to do so by send- 

 ing in your annual fee promptly on receipt of this number ? 



Members are also requested to write more freely for their journal, 

 ■and through it give to each other the benefit of their experiefice and 

 opinions. We hope to have from our botanical members some papers 

 on botany, and particularly upon Canadian flora; from our farmers 

 their experience with their orchards ; from our gardeners the results 

 of their trials of new potatoes, peas, and other vegetables ; from our 

 amateurs some information concerning their specialties or hobbies, and 

 from the ladies some inquiries at least concerning flowers and flower- 

 ing plants. Please to bear this in mind, and help to make owx Ilorti- 

 cuhturist an exponent of Canadian thought and ex^perieuce on all 

 horticultural matters. 



CULTIVATION OF SORGUM AT OTTAWA, 



BY P. E. BUCKE, OTTAWA. 



It will be remembered that attention was called to the cultivation 

 •of Sorgum in the January and February numbers of the Horticultu- 

 rist of the present year, as the future sugar plant of the Dominion, as 

 well as the Western States. The Hon. G. W, LeDuc, Commissioner 

 •at Washington, D. C, kindly sent me two packages of seed known mm 



