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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. 



This heading expresses the wish 

 of The Canadian Horticulturist 

 to its many readers. And in line 

 v^rith the wish it shall be our earnest 

 aim to aid our Ontario fruit 

 growers in every possible way to 

 that success which their industry, 

 coupled with a favorable soil and 

 climate, so well merit. 



We again appeal to all our readers 

 to aid us in our object by contributing 

 items of their experience, criticisms 

 on the subject matter of the journal, 

 or interesting notes of any kind bear- 

 ing upon our work. 



Photographs also, of special trees, 

 shrubs, fruits, lawn views, etc., are 

 also solicited, and if suitable will be 

 engraved and used as illustrations. 



sold as Pyrus malus fioribunda. The. 

 beauty of its delicately colored 

 masses of bloom is beyond descrip- 

 tion, and no small tree is better 

 suited to be planted on the margin 

 of a large shrubbery, or as single 

 specimens on the lawn. The fact 

 that it is perfectly hardy is import- 

 ant to us in Canada. 



A JAPANESE FLOWERING APPLE. 

 The Garden and Forest gives an 

 engraving of a novelty in the orna- 

 mental line, in the way of a flower- 

 ing apple, which was brought from 

 Japan by Von Siebold, and is being 



The American Horticultural 

 Society meets in Austin, Texas, on 

 Monday, the 17th day of February, 

 1890. 



" Where Flowers Bloom " is 

 the title of a column in the Woodstock 

 Sentinel Review, describing a visit to 

 the grounds of our ex-director for 

 Agricultural Division No. 9. It seems 

 that Mr. F. Mitchell has adopted 

 floriculture as a profession, and is 

 becoming very successful in his 

 chosen line. His three specialties 

 are the rose, the dahlia and the gladi- 

 olus. Of roses alone, he has now 

 about one hundred varieties in 

 cultivation. 



