. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. THE GOOD WORK IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. been able to demonstrate on the author- ity of the expert buyers of London, Liv- erpool and Glasgow that no superior fruit of the kind forwarded has been put on these markets. And their testi- mony is no empty sound. We have the money jingling down in our pockets from satisfactory sales made there this autumn. We have been largely work- ing in the dark up to the present, plant- ing the trees for years aback palmed off on us from all sources—some, indeed the great majority
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. THE GOOD WORK IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. been able to demonstrate on the author- ity of the expert buyers of London, Liv- erpool and Glasgow that no superior fruit of the kind forwarded has been put on these markets. And their testi- mony is no empty sound. We have the money jingling down in our pockets from satisfactory sales made there this autumn. We have been largely work- ing in the dark up to the present, plant- ing the trees for years aback palmed off on us from all sources—some, indeed the great majority of them, untrue to name and inferior stock from all points of view,—unloaded here at big profit because a more discerning class of buy- ers in Ontario or Nova Scotia cast it out entirely. Thus with all these drawbacks we have gone ahead remarkably in the science of pomology and demonstrated to the most hardheaded community to convince at all times, our own Island, to its evident surprise and amazement, that we can grow superior fruit. It takes time to effect changes in public sentiment; we have certainly experi- enced this tardy process in horticulture here. But as the French proverb says : *' Le monde s'agite et Dieu le meneT Brought together by the public-spirit- ed Governor, our fruit raisers and their friends formed the " Prince Edward Is- land Fruit Growers' ; The first meeting was not promising but the Governor persevered. Interest in the matter having seized others of the pro- fessional community and the good work of the Ontario Society having been brought to the notice of all concerned, a more enlightened essay was made last year and, as a consequence, the Associa- tion was established on the same plan as that of Ontario, to which it was affili- ated and incorporated in due course by Provincial statute. A moderate grant was also secured from the Government for the Society and the Horticulturist. Fig, 1595.—Rev. Father Burke's Pres- bytery, A
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