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in New Brunswick, and held meetings with Mr. W. W. Hubbard at Hampton, N. B., 

 on 29th of January, and at Sussex, N. B., on the following day. In passing through St. 

 John, N. B., I met the members of the New Brunswick Natural History Society, and 

 examined their museum on Monday, 1st of February. On 2nd and 3rd of March I was 

 present at the annual meeting of the District of Bedford Dairymen's Association, at 

 Cowajisville, Que. On 3rd of June, by instruction of the Honourable the Minister of 

 Agriculture, I went to Ste. Thdrese, Que., to examine some " drowned lands," repre- 

 sentative of hundreds of acres along the Ottawa River, and to advise what grasses could 

 be most advantageously grown on land liable to be under water during the spring 

 freshet for two or three weeks. Some experiments are being tried and will be reported 

 on later. The next day I started for St. Catharines and met a number of leadiiig fruit 

 growers, with whom 1 visited the orchard and beautiful grounds of Mr. Uharles 

 Thonger, near Niagara, where, unfortunately, the San Jose Scale has been introduced. 

 I was commissioned by the Honourable Minister to meet these gentlemen and learn 

 from them what their views were as to pi-oposed measures asked for by fruit growers to 

 prevent the spread of the San Jos^ Scale. The following morning I was driven by Mr. 

 A. M. Smith to St. David's, to examine an orchard of Mr. Hendershott's, in which the 

 San Jose Scale was said to occur. This report proved to be inaccurate, the insect in 

 Mr, Hendershott's orchard being the Cherry Scale, Aspidiotits Forbesi, Jnsn., a less in- 

 jurious species. Mr. Smith's nursery was also examined and no trace of the San Jos^ 

 Scale was found. 



On the following Monday, 14th of June, I left for Nova Scotia, where some meetings 

 had been arranged by the Board of Trade of Kentville, and by the Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion of Nova Scotia. Meetings were held at Kentville, Berwick and Auburn. The 

 first meeting was largely of townspeople, but there were also several farmers and gard- 

 eners present who had been brought together by Mr. M. G. DeWolfe, the energetic 

 President of the Board of Trade. The next day I was driven to Wolfville and had the 

 pleasure of being shown over the School of Horticulture by Prof. Faville. The same 

 afternoon, through the kindness of Mr. Barclay Webster, I was driven from Kentville 

 through the luxuriant orchards of King's county to Berwick, where a good meeting had 

 been convened by Mr. S. C. Parker, the Secretary of the Fruit Growers' Association of 

 Nova Scotia. The morning of the 18th was devoted to examining the well-kept orchards 

 of Mr. Parker and others at Berwick. In the afternoon I proceeded to Auburn, where 

 I was met by Mr. J. S. Bishop, and driven through the surrounding country, visiting 

 the cranberry bogs which have been so successfully worked for the last few years. In 

 the evening a well attended meeting of cranberry growers was addressed and Cranberry 

 insects were discussed. The next day I returned to Kentville and then went on to 

 Halifax to attend the meeting of the Royal Society of Canada. I left Halifax for home 

 on 23rd of June. On 3rd of July I proceeded to Manitoba by instruction of the Hon. Min- 

 ister of Agriculture and at the request of the Manitoba Government. In company with 

 Mr. Hugh McKellar, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, I held a series of meetings in 

 some of the important wheat growing districts of the province. Meetings were held at 

 Neepawa, Gladstone, Dauphin, Glenlyon on the Gilbert Plains, Portage la Prairie. 

 Brandon, Beresford, Blythefield and Glenboro'. The subject treated of at all these 

 meetings was " Noxious weeds, their nature and habits and the best means to adopt for 

 their eradication." We were accompanied at some of the~;e meetings by the Rev. W. A. 

 Burman, Mr. George Greig, of Winnipeg, and Mr. J. B. Hobson, of Guelph, who all took 

 an active and useful part in the meetings. I returned to Ottawa again on 22nd of July, 

 On 12th and 13th of October, I attended the annual meeting of the Entomological Society 

 of Ontario at London, Ontario. 



Acknowledgments. — As in previous years, I am under great obligations to my 

 friends, Prof. John Macoun and Mr. W. H. Harrington, both of Ottawa, for frequent 

 assistance in the identification of difficult plants and insects. I also take pleasure in 

 again acknowledging the valuable assistance I have received from my many correspon- 

 dents in all parts of the Dominion, who have much aided the work of the Division by 

 making observations and by sending rae prompt notice of the occurrence of injurious 

 insects and weeds. My thanks are also particularly due to Dr. L. 0. Howard, the 



