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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Errata. — On p. 165, for Bubach read Bubach. The article is commonly 

 known as insect powder. 



The Fruit Exhibit in London, England, referred to on page 185, June 

 No., according to a letter just received from Mr. Wilkes, Secretary of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, has fallen through for the present year. He will notify 

 us farther should it revive for the year 1893. The reasons given for this, is the 

 concentrated public interest in the general elections, in England, and represen- 

 tations, made by intending exhibitors, that notices for preparations were insuffi- 

 cient. 



A Visit to Canada's Veteran Strawberry Grower was made by the 

 writer recently, to secure strawberries for the Chicago Exhibition. Snugly nestled 

 away among the trees in a delightful rolling country, approached by a well-hedged 

 carriage road, r^Ir. John Little, and his aged partner in life, have spent many 

 happy years. Strawberries are his pets, and he has over eighty varieties. We 

 were highly flattered, when he named his finest seedling, the Woolvcrton. It is 

 a long way ahead of any berry we have ever seen. Every berry a monster and 

 plenty of them. 



Letters from Russia. — We have lately received another valuable letter 

 from Mr. Jaroslav Niemetz, our Russian correspondent. It deals with several 

 specially hardy varieties of apples and pears, which he believes might prove of 

 great value to Canadians ; as, for instance, the Panna, Princess, White Doyenne, 

 Slutsk, Beurre Blumenback, Flemish Beauty, Nina (or Manning's Elizabeth), 

 Liegel's Winter Butter pear. Scions of all these he has forwarded us, and they 

 have been placed in charge of the horticulturist of the Experimental F"arm at 

 Ottawa for careful propagation. The letter, in full, will appear in our next report. 



