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ing and burning of all affected 

 leaves and fruit ! The spraying 

 with a fungicide is, however, hope- 

 ful, and we hope Mr. Galloway's 

 remedy may prove effectual. It 

 is a solution made by dissolving 

 one half an ounce of sulphur- 

 ate of potassium (liver of sulphur) to 

 a gallon of water and he churns that 

 this will be found as cheap, practic- 

 able and efficacious as any. The 

 first application should be made 

 when tlie fruit is about the size of 

 peas, taking care to spray thoroughly. 

 The spraying to be effectual, should 

 be repeated about five or six times, 

 in intervals of about two weeks be- 

 tween eacli. 



Last year there was so x&xy little 

 scab, even upon the Early Harvest, 

 that we were thrown off guard and 

 omitted the application of any re- 

 medy, but this year, under the 

 favorable conditions of long-con- 

 tinued heat and moisture, it has re- 

 turned with redoubled violence and 

 will utterly destroy a large part of 

 the already very light apple crop. 

 We urge upon all our readers the 

 importance of giving a thorough 

 trial to the proposed remedies in 

 order that, if possible, this terrible 

 scourge may be driven awa}-. 



The Erie Blackbekrv. — On page 

 76 of Vol. 10, of this journal, some re- 

 ference was made to this new black- 

 berry as being as large as the 

 Kittatinny, almost early as the Early 

 Harvest, as vigorous and as hardy 

 as the Snyder, free from rust, and of 

 the best qualitv. 



We have this berr}- fruitiu},^ now 

 on Maplehurst Fruit Farm, and find 

 that, on the whole, it bears out 

 the claims made for it. The 

 Kittatinny is only just beginning to 

 ripen freely, (Aug. Sth), and almost 

 the whole of the berries on the Erie 

 are ripe, so that evidently it would 

 be very desirable as an early berry 

 to precede the Kittalinny. It is a 

 vigorous grower and in this respect 

 a great contrast to the Early Harvest, 



which is a poor grower. In size it 

 would average nearly as large as the 

 Kittatinny, and rounder in shape. 

 It is a little firmer than the latter, 

 and on this account would be better 

 shipped, but has not the hard core 

 of the Lawton. The weak point 

 about it appears to be that it is not 

 more hardy tha nthe Kittatinny, and 

 therefore we fear it cannot be re- 

 commended for our colder sections. 



Heavy Reclamations. — The Trade 

 Bulletin of Montreal, in its issue of 

 July 1 2th, states that very heavy 

 reclamations are being made by 

 English houses upon Canadian 

 shippers and farmers, on apple ship- 

 ments of last }-ear which have turned 

 out disastrously. Several of these 

 claims are said to be so large as to 

 ruin the persons making the ship- 

 ments, and they are being placed in 

 the hands of proper parties for col- 

 lection. The total amount of these 

 claims amounts to between $50,000 

 and .'i>75,ooo, showing how very 

 disastrous were most of the apple 

 shipments of last season, when the 

 fruit lacked all this of paying even 

 the freight charges. The Trade 

 Bulletin, writing in the interest of the 

 trade, of course, uses all this to point 

 out the evil results to Canadian 

 growers of attempting to ship their 

 own fruit direct to English houses. 

 Now, while on account of ignorance 

 of the standing of houses so far awa)-, 

 and of proper methods of packing, 

 etc., this advice mav be wise for all 

 small growers to follow, yet for large 

 growers we consider it is the height 

 of folly to pa\- charges to two com- 

 mission houses, one in Montreal and 

 one in England. Of course it is very 

 important to make a connection with 

 some reliable English house, but is 

 not this just as important in ship- 

 ping to a Montreal house ? We 

 have ourselves had the misfortune to 

 lose money with Canadian commis- 

 sion men even, so that there is need 

 of caution even in honest Canada. 



It is our aim to introduce to our 



