SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.00 per year, entitlng 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. 



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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Special Attention is called to the proposed enlargement of this journal 

 for the year 1893, which is set forth by this number. The editor, with the advice 

 of the directors, is anxious to spend every available cent the treasury will permit, 

 to increase the prosperity of Canadian fruit-growers. To accomplish this end 

 the latest and most reliable information on horticulture will be published in 

 this journal. The editor will unite with his own practical experience at Maple- 

 hurst, the results of the work of the horticulturists of the various Experiment 

 Stations of Canada and the United States, and the gist of the information 

 contained in the leading horticultural magazines of Europe and the United 

 States. In view of this, we ask all our friends to second our efforts by sending 

 in long lists of new subscribers, or names of persons to whom circulars, concern- 

 ing our work, may be sent from this ofifice. 



Whether we continue the additional eight pages during November and 

 December will depend upon the response in new subscriptions ; but the purpose 

 is to continue the enlargement through the year 1893, if properly supported. 



F.\Li, Work. — There is plenty to do at all seasons in the fruit garden. 

 Where it is the intention to enlarge the small fruit [)lantation, it is well to make 

 a beginning this month, if possible, completing the work in early s[)ring. Ras[i- 

 berrie.s, blackberries and currants begin to grow very early in the spring and are 

 checked in growth by a late removal. Fall planting should be done as early as 

 possible after the fall of the leaf, in order that the plants may become well set- 

 tled before the very cold weather. Currants are very easily propagated from 

 cuttings, and nurserymen say that tho.se which are set in the fall make nuich 

 stronger plants than the spring-set ones. They are cut six or seven inches in 

 length and inserted in the soil, with the exception of the top bud, at a distance 



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