The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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that I had of tht'iii this season. Karly in the 

 Hprinjf 1 got a sprayer and used Paris green 

 once just about tlie time the l)looin was ojien- 

 ing. Then 1 saw the advertisement liy a 

 nurseryman of the sujieriority of London 

 purple over I'aris green, so 1 sent to liim and 

 got a force pump and two poiuids of London 



Iiurple. I did not i>ut in as much of the 

 iondon ))urple as was recommended to be safe. 

 I «|irayed the trees once and it soon showed 

 itself; it must have killed the curculio for it 

 killed the leaves, and where it dropped otf the 

 trees on the currant and gooseberry bushes t 

 burnt in spots like vitrei would. Perhaps it was 

 too strong. The next time I'll put it on weaker, 

 but 1 don't think the trees will recpiire it this 

 year. — Tuos. (i. (tAston, Hamilton. 



• The Seedless Apple. 



Sir, — I see on page 142 of Canadian Hokti- 

 CULTURlsT my letter, etc. about my new ajiple, 

 also Prof. Panti>n's statement. Mr. Panton 

 seems to be 8cei)tical. I will ask you to refer 

 him to June number of American harden. He 

 there can see a plate of this fruit taken from a 

 twig sent to Mr. L. H. Pailey, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, K.\periment Station, Ithaca, New- 

 York, at blooming time. Of course it is im- 

 po.ssible for me to write and send .samples to an 

 army of scei)tics. What I have stated on page 

 1-12 of the HoKricii.Ti'KisT is true, and I can- 

 not hel]) the unbelief of Professor Panton or 

 Pri>fessor any body else, unless they are dis- 

 posed to believe ten or twelve good men on 

 oath. I would like to have it tested in Canada, 

 but as to sales of scions I could not half way 

 supply our own home wants this season. I 

 had to return over fifty orders for good lots 

 and every scion that would do was cut. I sell 

 at $5.00 I >er hundred. I would like for Prof. 

 Panton to write me a letter. I will answer 

 him kindly — G. W. RoBlNKri'K, Fla(i Pond. 



Too Much Paris Green. 



Sir, — I duly received your post card of Itith 

 May, and also by same mail the four straw- 

 Iterry ]>lants. They were nice, healthy plants, 

 carefully packed, but whether they had been 

 delayed in transit or not, of course I could not 

 say, but they were imquestionably dry. I at 

 once put their roots into tejiid water and kept 

 them immersed seven hours, and in evening 

 planted them carefully, and have given them 

 good attention since. They are doing well. 



The May number of the Canadian Hokti- 

 t'ri.TlRisr didy reached me. Its contents have 

 piven me very great satisfaction, in it there 

 IS, inter alia, much seasonable information 

 about curculios and codling moths — antagon- 

 ists that I have Ijeen fighting for a good while 

 and not always successfully, and I feel assured 

 that many fruit growers will be very thankful 

 for it. I had, however, anticipated the advice 

 the day before, and hail giv»Mi all my fruit trees 

 that were in blossom, plums, i>ear8 and apples, 

 a good spraying of Paris (ireen, i o/,. average 

 to the patent jiail. exactly the |>ro|M>rtions 

 recoiiunended by Mr. Fletcher, of ()ttawa, and 

 others, and hope to secure my fruit this year 

 from these ruthless s))oliators. 



Three years ago my orchard suffered con- 

 siderably from an overdose of Paris (Jreen, 

 arising from the indefinitf! nature of the instruc 

 tions given res|Mcting the amount recpiired to 

 a given cpiaiitity <if water, " a teaspoonful." 

 Now this " teaspoonful," by actual weight is 

 nearly 1 oz. average, it is, therefore, aVxnit eight 

 times the amount now deemed sutticient to 

 save the fruit from tin- destroyer. It is not 

 surprising, then, that the result of the larger 

 dose was so disastrous. 



This s|iring, owing to the frecpwut and heavy 

 rains, I have; had to make several sjirayings, 

 liut whether owing to the weakness of the solu- 

 tion, or the re|)eated washings, the foliage, so 

 far, has not suffered as I feared it might. 

 What effect on the marauders this may have, 

 it IS too .soon to say, but as yet I have only 

 seen one curculio mark on the fruit of eight 

 plum trees. 



1 will be glad to report results as soon as 

 ascertained. 



The sharp frost of last Tuesday night has 

 done much damage in this city and neighbor- 

 hood.— J. L. Thomp.son, Toronto, ./mu 1, ISSU. 



Plants Tested in Huron County. 



.SiK,— I su])pose it is exjiected tiiat We should 

 give a report of plants received, occasionally. 

 Since I last wrote 1 have had the Niagara 

 grai)e, and it has done well, also the Storm 

 King Fuchsia, but has not blossomed yet ; I 

 hope it will be true to name. The Jessie 

 strawberry has not increased much. The 

 (rolden t^ueen Raspberry is a fine berry and 

 good cro|)per, but it suckers too freely'; and 

 this year tlie Vergennes* gra'pe was growing 

 nicely, but alas ! on the night of the 22nd inst., 

 we had a sharp frost, which killed off the 

 young shoots, and did a great deal of damage 

 to all my grapes ; I don't think it was severe 

 enough to hurt the a|)])le, pear or plums. I 

 had a fine show of grape clusters, and in fact 

 most of the fruit of all descrii)tions had identy 

 of blossom. 



The crops of all kinds of grain, as well as the 

 meadows, are looking well, but the weather 

 has been cold this last week and ha.s checked 

 the growth. 



I .see in the last HoRTicULTiRisT an item on 

 the English Sparrow, also in the Annual 

 Report, with various means of keeping them 

 down. I think a simple and inexpensive 

 method that we used to adopt in England 

 when I was a boy, is about as good as any, 

 that is, trap them with a downfall, thus : — 

 Take a batten door, or something of the sort, 

 and set one edge on a stick alxiut two feet long, 

 tie a Corel on one end of the stick, and when 

 there are a number under it (which will soon 

 be if you scatter small grain plentifully^ pull 

 the stick out. Of course one must stand off a 

 little distance and watch them. If every one 

 would wage war on them they could be kept 

 within bounds, but many people don't care 

 how plentiful they are. 



Can you tell me anything about the Ritstm 

 pear or Saunders plum that some agents are 

 pushing, or are they al)out on a par with the 

 Pocklington grape, ndt a single vine of which 

 but gets killed to the ground in the winter in 



