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. A Memper.—Do you find any difference between the solution made with ammonia 
and the suspended solution ? 
The Secretary.—I have not experimented long enough to be able to say. 
Mr. Beavu.—The rev. gentleman here, spoke of cutting upa large number of bushes ; 
I hope he destroyed them. 
Archdeacon McMurray,—I destroyed them. 
Mr. Morris.—It is my opinion that mildew in gooseberries is caused by cold nights 
and warm days. ‘This season we have been comparatively feee from cold nights, which, 
I think has had a good deal to do with it. 
Mr. Beaty.—I may say we had cold nights and hot days similar to other years ; 
there has been only a very slight difference in the maximum temperature of this and other 
> years. 
Mr. T. H. Race (Mitchell).—My theory is, and [ will always adhere to it, that 
nature’s methods are more perfect than those of man, and if nature is not obstructed in 
her operations she generally attains perfection. I attribute my success in gooseberry 
culture to a free circulation of air, plenty of sunlight and the application of ashes to the 
soil. I have had no mildew for years, but you will not find another garden in the town 
in which [ live in which there is not mildew. When I say ashes of course I mean hard- 
wood ashes. I have about 200 bushes of Whitesmith, and I have Orown Bob and 
| Industry, which are my leading varieties, and I defy any man to come into my place and 
| find a single case of mildew. The Whitesmith I have seven years, the Industry four 
years and the Crown Bob two years, I apply ashes very heavily, which is the only 
fertiliser I give them. There is just one other thing on which I would like to ask an 
opinion. Five years ago I had a row of Whitesmith guoseberries, about 30 inarow. I 
wanted to manure them very heavily and I wheeled out fresh manure from the horse 
stables and dug it in very heavily about half the length of the row, and the remainder [ 
manured very heavily trom the cow stable. A few weeks afterward I noticed a rank, 
fungous growth on the ground manured from the horse stable and the bushes immediately 
-above that. mildewed, while there was no indication of mildew at all on that part 
manured from the cow stable. 
Archdeacon McMurray.—What quantity of ashes do you apply? 
Mr. Race.—My Whitesmiths are planted five feet apart in a row, and I started with 
ashes by putting a pailful of ashes between every two bushes. That was a prétty heavy 
. application but I saw good results from it, and every year after [ applied about half 
that quantity. 
Mr. Morpen.—My theory is that the fresh horse manure iujured the roots of the 
plants spoken of by Mr. Race and therefore the fungus could take effect the more readily 
. upon them. Manure from a horse stable, applied in large quantities, will injure almost 
any tree or plant except corn, which will stand a good quantity. As an illustration of 
this, I put a hot-bed within ten feet of a large black cherry tree, at least ten inches in 
diameter and it was within twenty feet of a mountain ash and that hot-bed killed them 
both. I have wheeled out stable manure and laid it on an open space where some goose- 
berry bushes got broken down and I found that the bushes on each side were materially 
injured by nothing else than the heating of the manure. 
Mr. Race.—The condition that induces mildew is in the plant ? 
Mr. Morpen.—Yes. I believe a healthy plant has a greater resisting power than a 
feeble one. é: 
. Archdeacon McMurray.—I thought the condition which induced mildew was a 
humid atmosphere. 
Mr. Morpen.—Yes ; but what I mean is this, that a healthy plant has greater 
| powers of resistance ; it will not be attacked so quickly nor to the same extent as a sickly 
plant would be. A plant in which a rank and rapid growth is induced is not in a healthy 
state. 
