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badly, for some reason or other the canes are dead in large quantities, especially 

 in old established Cuthbert plantations." 



Mr. John Croil, of Aultsville, in the county of Stormont, writes : " Straw- 

 berries here are completely demoralized from La Grippe of the frost, their growers 

 generally badly begripped too. The usual covering of straw failing the addition 

 of snow, has ruined our prospects for the season, and many of our growers seem 

 to be discouraged. We fail to see why. In forty years' experience in 

 strawberry culture, we have not had such a tale to tell, and our advice is, when 

 every one is running ; you walk. Replant your beds, they are likely to do in the 

 future as well as they have done in the past, and the inevitable scarcity of our 

 favorite fruit this year will enhance its value in coming ones. In our cold north 

 it would be premature to predict the prospects for pears, cherries and plums, 

 but we may say that in our section pears have always been unremunerative, 

 except in the hands of the few persistent growers, who have had small returns 

 from Bartlett, Flemish Beauty and Clapp's Favorite. Cherries have failed us for 

 years, and plums nearly so. 



Mr. D. Nichol of Cataraqui, in the county of Frontenac, writes : " Straw- 

 berries were badly injured by the winter. There being very little snow, plants 

 were more exposed than usual. The bloom upon apple, pear and cherry trees is 

 more abundant than usual, although about ten days later than last year." 



Mr p. E. Bucke, of Ottawa, writes : "Fruit prospects were never better in the 

 Ottawa Valley than this spring. The only fruit which appears to have suffered 

 is the Raspberry where not laid down, the snow fall last winter having been 

 comparatively light, though we had uninterrupted sleighing from the 27th of 

 November to the 20th of March. Pond's seedling and Glass's seedling, two of 

 our hardiest cultivated plums, are showing a wonderful abundance of bloom. No 

 pears can be grown here." 



Mr. Thos. Beall of Lindsay, in the county of Victoria, writes : " The 

 prospects for pears is the very best, but strawberries are nearly all winter killed. 



From all these and other reports it is evident that while most fruit trees 

 promise a great abundance and low prices must be expected in consequence, yet 

 strawberries will be an unusually short crop, and good plantations will yield 

 unusual profits. 



FRUIT AS MEDICINE. 



IT is very seldom that fruit is taken as a preventive or cure for illness or 

 disease, yet the value of many varieties in cases of slight ailments, and in 

 some instances of serious indisposition, is indisputable, and advantage 

 might well be taken of this fact by those engaged in the fruit trade to impress 

 it upon the public more strongly. Of the various fruits — English and foreign 



