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provide some severer punishment than simply confiscation. I would, therefore, 

 respectfully suggest to this meeting that a punishment should be attached to the 

 offence of re-branding American apples as Canadian. Of course, re-branding fruit is 

 not an offence of itself; it has to be created an offence by legislation. If the offence 

 is created and put upon the party who does the wrong, you do not punish the man 

 by simply confiscating the article, and you are affecting, not the man who is the 

 wrong-doer, but the man who owns the fruit. As a consequence, a man who does 

 the wrong goes unpunished. I would therefore move, seconded by Mr. Denton, that 

 the report just read be amended by adding to the first clause the following : " That 

 it be further recommended that a penal clause be added to the proposed legislation 

 in addition to the confiscation therein mentioned for the offence named." This 

 matter ishot going to be dealt with simply by us ; it is for the House of Commons 

 to deal with, and therefore they may put in a fine or imprisonment according to the 

 heinousnesB of the offence. I think this is a very serious matter in this country. 

 They may punish the offence by imprisonment for one, three, four or six months, or 

 by a fine, as they may think proper, but if you simply deal with it by confiscation of 

 the goods you by no means touch the offender, as he goes scatheless. A great 

 many questions would arise in respect to the confiscation of goods. Who, may I 

 ask, is to have the power to say that they should be confiscated. 



Mr. Fbankland. — ^Would not the common law apply to the case ? 



Judge MosQEOVE. — The common law of England would certainly not touch it. 

 There is nothing wrong in it as it is. You have to create the offence. 



The amendment was put to the meeting and declared carried. The report, as 

 amended, was then adopted. 



The PKESIDE^fT. — We shall now have a paper on " Trees and Plants for the 

 Cold North," by Mr. J. 0. Chapais, of St. Denis, Kamouraska. 



Mr. Chapais then read the following paper : — 



Trees and Plants foe the Cold North. 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, — Very probably I am, amongst all the persons 

 here assembled, one of those practising arboriculture in one of the most northern 

 regions of the Province of Quebec. 



St. Denis, in Kamouraska County, where I live, is situated ninety miles below 

 Quebec, in il'' 30' of latitude. 



I have thought that it would be of some interest for fruit-growers present to 

 know what trees and plants our severe climate allows us to cultivate with success. 



Nobody will be surprised to find out how comparatively small is the number of 

 those trees and plants when I will tell you that our winters gratify us, sometimes, 

 with a temperature as low as 30° P., and are always Yevy severe. 



Our summers are short, and we have protracted autumns, without snow, very 

 cold, with alternation of freezing and thawing, causing more damage to vegetation 

 than the most severe cold of winter, which we experience only when the soil is 

 covered by many feet of snow. 



Now that I have given you an idea of the conditions under which we make our 

 horticultural and fruit-growing work, I will point out the different varieties of -trees 

 and plants which we cultivate with good results : 



Apples. 



Summer. — Duchess of Oldenburg, Peach, Eed Astrachan, Summer Calville, 

 Tetofsky. 



Pall. — Alexander, St. Lawrence. 

 Early Winter. — Pameuse, Hermine, Wealthj'. 

 Late Winter. — Winter Calville. 



Crab or Siberian. — Hyslop, Montreal Beauty, Transcendent, Whitney. 

 We are testing other comparatively new varieties, especially of Eussian apples. 

 ' Time only will tell what they are worth to us. 



