SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 per year, entitling the subscriber to membership ot the Fruit 

 Growers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Annual 

 Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees. 



REMITTANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon 

 the address label. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Blank Forms for renewal of membership fees to our As.sociation have been 

 sent out, in order that all should be reminded in time to secure a share in our 

 plant distribution. In some cases these have been quite unintentionally sent to 

 persons who had just renewed, but whose names had not yet been entered. We 

 hope any such persons will pardon the almost unavoidable oversight. 



THE FLOWERING THORNS. 



The Flowering Thorns are among the most highly prized of small lawn trees. 

 They grow only from ten to fifteen feet in height, are compact and erect, but 

 branching so as to form a good head, and late in spring cover themselves with 

 blossoms. The foliage is handsome and abundant, and the trees at all times 

 appear to good advantage. The most highly prized of the thorns are the com- 

 mon Hawthorn and its varieties, especially the Double White, the Double 

 Scarlet and the Double Red. These varieties planted together in a clump make 

 a brilliant show in their blooming season. Another fine variety of the same 

 species is the Parsley-leaved thorn, the leaves being finely cut and crimped, giv- 

 ing it a novel appearance ; the flowers are white, single. 



Whoever has seen a fine specimen of the Cock-spur thorn in bloom, as it 

 grows in our thickets and fence corners, has had a sight to delight the eye. A 

 variety of this species is c ultivated, having narrow, bright green, glossy leaves, 

 superior to tho.se of the wild tree, and blooming as freely, being literally covered 

 with its single white flowers in its season ; this is the I'yracantha-leaved thorn. 

 Another variety of the same, is called the Glossy-leaved thorn. The flowers of 

 all are pleasingly fragrant.- I-'roni "Trees for Small I'Inces.' in liik's AAigazifif. 



