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or whether they get a trace of net russetting does not count and all of the 

 evidence that I have goes to show that the average grower or the average 

 locality will grow more and better apples by dusting than by spraying because 

 the average grower will dust more thoroughly than he will spray. 



I want you to understand that I am not questioning here the accuracy 

 of the data that has been submitted by official experimenters nor am I ques- 

 tioning the honesty or sincerity of experimenters, either individually or as a 

 class. However, I am convinced that the average farmer will get better com- 

 parative results from dusting than will the average experimenter. 



PROVANCHER THE CANADIAN LINNAEUS. 

 HIS LIFE AND WORKS. 

 By Georges Maheux, provincial entomologist, Quebec. 



During the last five years, Canadian naturalists and scientists have heard 

 more about Provancher than during the previous quarter of century, Scientific 

 societies, reviews of all kinds and even the daily papers have in succession 

 paid warm tributes of admiration to the high value of the late Abbe Provancher 

 as a priest, citizen and naturalist. 



One day, in August, 1918, a large group of friends, admirers and disciples 

 gathered in the Provincial Museum at Quebec. The object of the meeting 

 was the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the death of Provancher and 

 the unveiling of a tablet presented by the Quebec Societ\' for the Protection 

 of Plants and bearing the folloing inscription. 



A la memoire de Provancher, Naturaliste et Entomologiste, 1820-1892. 



A few months before, in the church of Cap-Rouge, where the remains of 

 Provancher have been pioush' kept, Canon Huard erected another memorial 

 with the financial aid of the Ontario Entomological Society and numerous 

 other institutions. Nevertheless, all the publicity accorded to the name of 

 Provancher fails to give anything like a complete idea of his career; the ento- 

 mologist regards him as an entomologist, the botanist as a botanist, while the 

 man was really the Linnaeus of Canada;' that is to say a true naturalist in the 

 broadest sense of the word, having been interested in and written competently 

 on the various kingdoms of Nature. The complete list of his works reveals 



