THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 18, 



raised both trees and tree pedlers, who brought their wares to thi.s 

 then terra incognita, know as Upper Canada. I wouhl here add, 

 though some liave made game in prose and verse of that ubiquitou 

 specimen of tlie genua homo known in the vulgar tongue as the " tree 

 pedler," he has not always been an unmixed evil ; and though some 

 harm has been done by the selling of "Barm of Gilliad" poplars for pear 

 trees, and the like, yet tlie introduction by them of fruit trees and 

 vines in early years demonstrated the fact that our climate was 

 specially adapted for horticultural persuits. The cumulative force 

 which sucli knowledge begets in a new country is perfectly astonishing. 

 Year by year nurserymen were multiplied, and the rapidity with whicli 

 large and small orchards and vineyards have sprung into existence in 

 every section is quite gratifying to the lovers of fruit. There is not a 

 town or county from Nova Scotia to the head of Thunder bay that is 

 not dotted with large or small cultivations, and some orchards produce 

 large quantities of surplus fruit for shipment. 



The Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, which was originated 

 some fifteen years ago by the assembling together of a few enthusiasts, 

 now numbers its members by the hundreds; and it is hoped its 

 monthly periodical will before long be developed into a weekly one, 

 embracing with its present articles on fruit and forestry, designs and 

 plans of house and farm buildings, glass houses and conservatories, 

 designs for parks, and a register of current prices of fruit in towns and 

 cities in Canada, the States and Great Britain. This is much required, 

 owing to the large amount of surplus fruit grown in certain districts 

 and the scarcity that exists in others, and also with regard to the 

 enormous export trade which is fast developing. The subject of 

 drying fruits should also be handled. In fact the field opened is such 

 a large one, that if any one had the time and vigor to push the journal, 

 it would have a large circulation in England as well as on the Conti- 

 nent if conducted on a business footing. The Horticulturist is taken 

 ■entirely by a class of people directly interested in fruit, forestry and 

 horticulture, and it should be the medium of advertising all the articles 

 relating thereto, such as farming and gardening implements of all 

 kinds, rural architecture, landscape gardening, situations wanted m 

 town and rural districts by gardeners and farm laborers, fencing 

 materials, artificial manures, soil pumps and pipes for irrigation 

 matters, hydraulic rams, cut flowers, plants, bulbs vines, &c. Also iu 



