. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $ per year, entitling the subscriber to membership of the Fruit 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. REMITTANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon the address label. Notes and Comments. To Grow the Big Squash.—Mr. Warnock writes that the hills should be fourteen inches deep, instead of six inches, as described in volume XVI
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $ per year, entitling the subscriber to membership of the Fruit 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. REMITTANCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon the address label. Notes and Comments. To Grow the Big Squash.—Mr. Warnock writes that the hills should be fourteen inches deep, instead of six inches, as described in volume XVI., page 423. The Committee on New Fruits for 1894, consist of Messrs. A. McD. Allen, Leslie ; D. W. Beadle, 450 Markham Street, Toronto; and Mr. John Craig, Horticulturist of the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. These gentle- men are all experts, and are not easily puzzled in identifying varieties. It will not be easy for any nurseryman to impose old fruits on them as new kinds. The Idaho Pear was shown by the State of Idaho in quantity. In the opinion of one the jurors, it is identical with the Sheldon, but grown in Idaho it is enlarged beyond recognition. Query ? Would the texture of the flesh be also altered by the change of climate, for the flesh of the Sheldon is finer grained than the Idaho. Has anyone fruited this pear in Ontario ? More frequent Communications from the readers of this journal are invited. We desire to make this journal a record of experience in fruit culture and floriculture, representing all parts of Ontario, and as far as possible, the other provinces also. We have a large number of readers in Nova Scotia and British Columbia, and notes of their work will be acceptable as well as of work in our own province, and thus our journal will be indeed, what its name imports, the Canadian Horticulturist. Revision of Assessment Act.—Messrs. Beadle, Wellington, and Allan, were appointed a committee to confer with the Minister of Agriculture, regard- (33). P
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