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varieties are suited to their soil and climate. During the last fifteen or sixteen 

 years our Association has been endeavoring to do as much plant-testing as 

 possible, through our directors and members, and this we consider one of the 

 most important departments of our work. In the future we hope to receive 

 some substantial encouragement for the more careful carrying out of our 

 distribution of trees and plants for testing, and for the collating of the results. 



As a writer on agricultural and horticultural subjects, Mr. Nicol is favorably 

 known throughout the Province of Ontario. In the annual competitions for 

 prizes offered by the Agricultural and Arts Association for the best essays on 

 these subjects, Mr. Nicol has been awarded nine first prizes. 



As a landscape gardener, Mr. Nicol's talents have been recognized by the 

 people of Kingston. The laying out of the Cataraqui cemetery, of Kingston, 

 was placed in his hands and he continues to have this work in charge, a task 

 which absorbs no small amount of his time. 



For several years Mr. Nicol was president of the Frontenac Agricultural 

 Association and was a member of the Board of Directors for over twenty years. 

 He has also taken a share in the work of conducting the Farmers' Institutes in 

 connection with the professors of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, 

 and has been sent out to this work three successive seasons. For this work he 

 is well suited having had large experience, not only in fruit growing, but also in 

 general farming and stock raising. 



THE DESIRABLE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Mrs. Cleveland, Snowstorm, Moonlight and B. Rose have attracted a great 

 deal of attention of late. The number of really valuable early kinds is quite 

 small, and it is a question whether such as we have of the very early ones are 

 desirable, for they come at the height of the aster season, and are in no way 

 superior to them, though they require much more trouble in cultivation. If we 

 could have varieties equal in beauty to the November flowering kinds there 

 would be no doubt of their desirability, but such do not seem to be forthcoming. 

 Those that have proved most valuable are Mad. C. Desgrange, white : Mile. 

 Lacroix, white ; Alex. Dufour, amaranth ; Lady Selborne, white ; Mandrin, 

 white, shaded yellow and pink ; and Roi des Precoces, crimson. On the other 

 hand, there are a few varieties that extend the chrysanthemum season far into 

 the winter ; indeed, it is not unusual to see them at Christmas. The following 

 are valuable in this way : Grandiflorum, bright yellow ; Mrs. Charles Carey, 

 white ; Ceres, pink and white ; Gloire de Toulouse, amaranth crimson ; Snow- 

 storm, white ; Thunberg, yellow ; Bi-color, orange and yellow ; and the new 

 variety, Le Suprenant. crimson and yellow. — Forest and Home 



