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Covent Garden, London. I wrote 

 home ; had three or four barrels of 

 apples sent out, which arrived and 

 were sold under my own eye. The 

 venture was the reverse of profitable, 

 and anything but creditable to the 

 country. Depending upon others to 

 pack them, they were put up in the 

 usual way with the usual result ; 

 superb fruit thrown away through 

 careless handling in the orchard. 

 London is a good market for good 

 fruit, but a poor one for inferior fruit. 

 Fruit, especially Canadian apples, 

 always does and will continue to 

 bring a good price. But it is worse 

 than folly to send them to arrive in 

 a damaged state. There is a class 

 of dealers in London with whom 

 quahty is a first and price a second- 

 ary consideration, and who never 

 touch inferior or damaged fruit. The 



latter are slaughtered among the 

 costermongers and East End corner 

 grocers and fruit men. The men 

 who successfully cater to the wants 

 of the first class may calculate upon 

 uniformly good prices year after year. 

 I was present at the sale of a number 

 of consignments from Canada, and 

 could not help blushing at the folly 

 of our people in sacrificing fine fruit 

 through carelessness in packing and 

 sorting. Nova Scotia sends a great 

 quantity of apples to London. Their 

 barrels are not so large as ours. 

 They are sold as "Nova Scotia Bar- 

 rels,''' while our packages are always 

 advertised as " Canadian Casks.'' 

 There is money for the man who 

 uniformly succeeds in laying down 

 our apples in London, carefullly 

 graded and in prime order. — R. Mc- 

 Knight. 



FIGHTING INSECTS. 



THE CODLING MOTH.— The 

 experience of others confirms 

 our own regarding the benefits of 

 spraying, and therefore we are doing 

 the work more carefully than ever 

 among all our fruit trees. Mr. A. C. 

 Hammond, Secretary of the Illinois 

 Horticultural Society, says he treated 

 his trees twice, at an interval of ten 

 days, with London purple, and as a 

 result from 60 to 75 per cent, of his 

 apples were perfect, and about 85 

 per cent., marketable, while adjoin- 

 ing orchards not sprayed did not 

 produce a peck of perfect fruit. 



We would advise all orchardists 

 reading this journal to lose no time 

 in giving their trees a careful spray- 

 ing, and we shall be glad to have 

 the results for publication. The 

 proportion of Paris green that we 

 recommend is one quarter of a pound 

 to fifty gallons of water, or one 

 ounce to every ten gallons. 



Plant and Bark Lice. — The 

 spraying pump comes in most useful 

 for these insects also, as it is impos- 

 sible to apply kerosene emulsion 

 with a brush or broom, except to the 

 trunk and larger limbs. These we 

 first scrape carefully with a hoe, and 

 then scrub thoroughly with a wash 

 of potash and water in the proportion 

 of two pounds of the former to seven 

 quarts of the latter. But sometimes 

 when the bark lice are very bad we 

 find them far out on the branches, 

 and then nothing will do but spray- 

 ing with kerosene emulsion. For 

 this Prof. Cook recommends the fol- 

 lowing formula : Kerosene, one pint ; 

 soft soap, one quart ; and boiling 

 water, two gallons. A stronger emul- 

 sion, which is also suitable for spray- 

 ing our cherry trees for the black 

 aphis, is made as follows, and is one 

 we use for all purposes, viz.: Soap, 

 half a pound, mixed to strong suds 



