The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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and has attained an enormous size, 

 the circumference at the trunk being 

 twenty-three feet, and its diameter 

 at the spread of the branches ninety 

 feet. 



THE DOMINION CONVENTION OF 

 FRUIT GROWERS. 

 This first Dominion Convention of Fruit 

 Growers has now been finally arranged to 

 be held in the City Hall, Ottawa, on Wed- 

 nesday, Thursday and Friday, the 19th, 20th 

 and 2ist of this month. 



Papers will be contributed by delegates 

 and others from Ontario, Quebec, Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward 

 Island, British Columbia, Manitoba, and 

 North-West Territory. 



Among the subjects to be discussed will 

 be Transportation of Fruits — Packing and 

 Selecting Fruit for the Home and Foreign 

 Market — Express and Railway Freights — 

 Fungus Disease and Blight — Small Fruits 

 and their Commercial Value — The Commer- 

 cial Apple Orchards of Ontario, Quebec, 

 Nova Scotia — Relation of Insects to Fruit 

 Culture — Export of Winter Apples : Profits, 

 Drawbacks — Utilizing Surplus Fruit Pro- 

 ducts: Canning, Evaporating — Injurious 

 Insects Afi'ecting Fruits : Remedies to Pre- 

 vent Ravages — Profitable Forest Planting — 

 Adaptation of Russian Fruits to Canadian 

 Requirements, etc., etc. 



Special railroad and hotel rates will be 

 obtained for those desirous of attending. 



A cordial invitation is extended to the 

 Associations in the United States to send 

 delegates to this Convention. 



Samples of new or little known fruits are 

 specially solicited. 



In order to bring out a fair exhibit of fruit 

 grown in various parts of the Dominion, the 

 honorable, the Minister of Agriculture, has 

 placed at the disposal of the Convention, 

 prizes on seedling, fresh canned and evapor- 

 ated fruits, to the amount of some 8400 ; 

 and exhibitors will be governed by the fol- 

 lowing rules : 



I. All exhibits to be the production of 

 the Dominion of Canada. 



2. The name and address of the exhibitor 

 to be attached to each exhibit on cards which 

 will be provided for this purpose. 



3. In addition to the prizes mentioned in 

 this Schedule, the Judges shall have the 

 discretionary power to award cards of 

 " Highly Commended " and "Commended ' 

 for such exhibits as they consider worthy of 

 same. 



4. The decision of the Judges must, in all 

 cases, be considered as final. 



The Convention of the Dominion Dairy- 

 men's Association, will also be held at 

 Ottawa, on the i8th and 19th of February, 



A joint meeting will be held on the even- 

 ing of Wednesday, the 19th, for the discus- 

 sion of subjects of interests to both. 



Prize lists and programmes may be 

 obtained from W. W. Dunlop, P.O. box 

 1 145, Montreal, who is acting secretary for 

 the Convention. 



PETER HENDERSON. 



Although not a fruit grower, yet his 

 eminence in the allied science of floricul- 

 ture, makes the decease of this famous flor- 

 ist, a direct loss to us as Horticulturists. 

 That singular disease, La Grippe, which is 

 carrying off so many people with so litt e 

 warning, made him its victim, and he died 

 of resultant pneumonia on the i8th ult. 



He came to New York at the age of nine- 

 teen, and after serving as gardener in two 

 or three situations, he began for himself in 

 Jersey City, in 1847 ; his books on Market 

 Gardening showed the result of practical 

 work in that department, and was so highly 

 appreciated that over 100,000 copies have 

 been sold. 



Latterly he has given himself principally 

 to the business of Seedsman and Florist, and 

 his name is familiar to our readers through 

 our advertising columns. To show the 

 extent of his business, it may be stated that 

 his greenhouses covered five acres, and his 

 average force was one hundred hands. 



His last work is now in press, in his 

 " Hand Book of Plants," and thus in his 

 work he still lives. 



