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 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. 



The Winter Meeting of the Ontario Fruit Growers' Association is to be 

 held in the City Hall, Hamilton, on the 15th, i6th and 17th of December next. 

 The meetings in this place have always been full of interest, because the place 

 is accessible to a larger number of fruit growers than any other in Ontario. There 

 will be many interesting subjects discussed, and we, therefore, urge upon all 

 members and readers of this journal, who possibly can do so, to make it a point 

 to be in attendance. Everyone is at liberty to propose questions for consider- 

 ation and these will be answered, as far as possible at the meetings, by persons 

 who are the most capable. Questions sent in for that purpose to the Secretary, 

 in the meantime, will be entered on the printed programme. There will also be 

 an exhibit of new and interesting fruits, and we ask all fruit growers to lay aside 

 anything interesting and bring it with them to the meeting. The programme 

 will be given in our December number, and copies, in circular form, will be 

 sent to all who may apply for them. 



Growino Roses. — Mr. E. Sunmey says in the American Agriculturist that 

 the autumn or very early spring is the best time to plant dormant, hardy roses, 

 as no plant suffers so much from late spring planting as the rose. Good strong 

 two-year old plants, of the hardy class, are the best for out-door culture. A 

 great many have been discouraged from growing roses in their gardens through 

 buying from florists small pot plants which need more tender care than amateurs 

 are able to give them. Roses should be planted two feet apart in open ground 

 Heavy loam or clay soil is preferable, but, with special fertilizing, they may 

 succeed on sandy soil. 



Roses, for the most part, succeed best on their own roots, but there are some 

 desirable varieties which do better on other stock. In case of such plants, great 



