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tter and its enclosures to the Governors of = alonige in a Cireular 
eds which he is about to address to them 
am, &e. 
(Signed) R. H. MEADE. 
The Assistant Director, Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Kew. 

CANADIAN FRUITS. 
sepa of a ei Us the HONOURABLE THE Privy COUNCIL 
R CANADA, approved by His Excellency the Governor-General 
in n Gowiièlt on the 19th July 1887. 
nae Committee of the et Council have had under consideration 
revlar Despatch, dated 17th November 1886, from the Right 
THoneerabls the Secretary of State for the Colonies, transmitting a copy 
of a letter from the Assistant Director of the e Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew; callin attention to the interest which has been awakened 
in pate to tropical and other fruits by the display in the several courts 
at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, and enclosing a list of questions 
respecting Colonial fruits, which he suggests should be answered as 
ully as possible by the Colonial Governments. 
e Minister of Agriculture, to whom the Despatch and lg 
were referred to report relative to fruits asked for in the letter from 
the Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens ead jabik 
the accompanying report a Professor Saunders, Director of the 
Experimental Farms of Canada, containing categorical answers to a 
series of questions for the rod of obtaining information respecting 
Colonial fruits. 
JOHN J. MCGEE 
Clerk, Privy Council, 

MEMORANDUM by PROFESSOR SAUNDERS. 
Query 1.—Please give a list of both local and scientific names of the 
chief fruits igrava in the Se in order of importane 
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variety of taste, and partly to the koiias ingie ences of sitaatlon, soil, 
and climate ; hence the accompanying list must be regarded as approxi- 
mative rather than authoritative in this particular. 




