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which can be successfully grown are necessarily limited. 

 At Abbotsford he had established extensive orchards of 

 Russian fruits, which he was testing not only for quality, 

 but for climatic adaptation and their value for purposes of 

 hybridizing with native and less hardy kinds. Most of 

 these trees are yet very young, but some of them have at- 

 tained that age at which they are in a condition to yield 

 important results. An extensive plantation of fruit and 

 ornamental trees was also an important feature of his 

 work, and had he been spared for another decade, valuable 

 results would have been secured from a work wisely con- 

 ceived and intelligently prosecuted. Though not known as 

 an originator, one fruit will serve to transmit his name to 

 future generations of pomologists. The Gibb Crab, a most 

 delightful fruit of its class; was discovered by Mr. Gibb in 

 the orchard of Mr. PefferofPewaukee, Wisconsin, by whom 

 it had been overlooked, but who promptly named it in 

 honor of him who had rescued it from oblivion. 



Mr. Gibb's writings upon horticulture are somewhat 

 numerous and of very considerable value. Almost his first 

 contribution was the publication of " A Fruit List for the 

 Province of Quebec." This little pamphlet was published 

 -in 1875, by the newly organized Fruit Growers' Association 

 of Abbotsford, and led to the issue, in the following year, of 

 a " Report of the Fruit Committee of the Montreal Horticul- 

 tural Society for 1876." The publication of this report was se- 

 cured by Mr. Gibb in the face ofgreat obstacles, but its impor- 

 tance demonstrated the need of an annual publication of the 

 work of the Society. It thus came to be the first of a series of 

 annual reports to which Mr. Gibb contributed largely, and 

 which, through the valuable character of the material they 

 contain, have gained a high reputation both at home and 

 abroad. Perhaps Mr. Gibb's most important publication is 

 his contribution to "The Nomenclature of our Russian 

 Fruits." This paper was prepared at the request of the 

 American Pomological Society, and otters at once a most 

 careful, exact and authoritative revision of the names of 

 Russian fruits imported into America, extant. It is a 



