100 



SUMMARY. 



Quantities given below are all on the basis of 22 gals, of water, with ammonia 

 as the solvent: — 



1. Copper carbonate — 3 oz, in solution, caused slight injury. 



2. Copper carbonate — 3 oz. in suspension caused no injury ; 6 oz. in suspen- 

 sion caused slight injury, which did not increase with repeated applications. 



3. Copper carbonate — 3 oz. in solution, Paris green If oz. (proportion of 1 lb. 

 to 200 gals, of water), caused slight injury in the later applications. 



4. Copper carbonate — IJ oz. in solution, Paris green If oz., caused very slight 

 injury after thethii-d application. 



5. Copper carbonate — 1^ oz., in suspension, Paris green If oz., caused no 

 injury. 



6. Copper carbonate — 3 oz. in suspension, Paris green If oz., caused slight 

 injury after later applications. 



7. Copper sulphate — 8 oz. dissolved caused much injury, and proportionately as 

 the quantity of sulphate was increased. 



8. Copper sulphate — 8 oz., with 1^ pints of ammonia, caused much injury. 



9. Copper sulphate — 8 oz. ; Paris green -93 oz,, and If oz. caused much injury. 

 The more promising lines, as indicated in the above summary, will receive 



careful attention another season, and on such a scale as to enable the submitting of 

 a more complete summary of conclusions. 



VI.— EEPOET ON SEEDLING SMALL FETJITS. 



To Wm. Saunders, Esq., 



Director Experimental Farms, 

 Ottawa. 



Sir, — The members of the joint committee from the Fruit Growers' Association 

 of Ontario, and the Montreal Horticultural Society, invited to inspect the fruits of 

 the Ottawa Experimental Farm, beg to submit the following report : — 



We met at the farm on the 22nd of July, and in company with yourself and 

 Mr. John Craig, the Horticulturist, proceeded to examine the various fruits in 

 cultivation. The results of our observations were very gratifying, indeed, having 

 found success and improvement far beyond our most sanguine expectations. 



The raspberry being the principal fruit in bearing at the time, our attention 

 was more particularly drawn to it. We found some twenty-five or more varieties of 

 the well-known sorts in bearing — most of them doing well and carrying a fair crop 

 of fruit. But the chief attraction to your committee was a patch of two or three 

 hundred seedlings and hybrids which were originated by the Director, some of which, 

 in our estimation, bid fair to supersede the best of the standard varieties. These 

 were carefully compared as to apparent hardiness of plant, quality, and productive- 

 ness with the standard sorts grown under the same culture and surroundings, and we 

 found, not only in those of the red type, but also in the black and yellow sorts, 

 marked improvements over the leading varieties in general cultivation, from which 

 these were produced — Some as to time of ripening, others as to flavor, and still 

 others as to size, hardiness, productiveness, &c., and it is the opinion of the 

 committee that if, these varieties are propagated and disseminated through the 

 country that they alone will more than pay the country, the expense already 

 incurred in connection with the Horticultural Department of the Experimental 

 FaiTU. These vai-ieties have been grown under numbers, and we herewith append 

 oui- observations in regard to the most promising of them, and would suggest that 

 they should all be named and further tested, and propagated as flist as possible, and 

 disseminated as you may think best. 



