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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



beny vines was a thing which must be 

 done. It is a great mistake to ])lant 

 strawberries in the spring and leave 

 them to bear what they will. Also 

 the matter of iri-igation is very im- 

 ])ortant. Strawberries want water 

 every day, all they can get, and a little 

 more. 



President Earle said that he mulch- 

 ed his ])lants in the autumn, did not 

 wait until winter, and tlid not cover up 

 the plants, but covered the vacant 

 ground. For fertilizer he used wood 

 ashes. The average crop in his country 

 (Illinois), is forty or fifty bushels to the 

 acre, though instances have been of 

 crop«i running up to two hundred and 

 fifty busliels to the acre. He considered 

 four thousand eight hundred quarts to 

 the acre, that is, one hundred and tifty 

 bubhels, a good crop, that with good 

 varieties and good management ought 

 to be secured with considerable cer- 

 tainty. 



Mr. Evans, of Missouii, stated that 

 a neighbor had fertilized a part of his 

 strawberries with dried blood at the 

 rate of four hundred pounds to the 

 acre, and told him that for every dol- 

 lar's worth of blood he received five 

 dollars back. 



The meeting then adjourned for tea. 



THE MAGOG KEDSTREAK. 



An error has crept into the com- 

 munication from our esteemed contii- 

 butor, Mr. A. A. Wright, of Renfrew, 

 at page 159, July number, where he 

 lias been made to say Magog and Reil- 

 streak, as if speaking of two distinct 

 varieties, whereas it should read 

 " Magog Redstreak," which is a seed- 

 ling raised by Doctor Hoskins, of Ver- 

 mont, and first grown on the shores of 

 Lake Memphremagog, from whence it 

 derives its name. Mr. Wright adds, 

 '• I thought at the beginning of the 

 season that it was shewing signs of 



weakness, but with summer weather it 

 has far surpassed my expectations in 

 growth and apparent hardiness. In 

 form and habit of growth it is one of 

 the most beautiful trees on my ground." 



TREE AGENTS. 



At the June meeting of the Michigan 

 State Horticultural Society, Professor 

 Sattarlee, of the Agricultural College, 

 read a paper on the " Protection of 

 innocent purchasers of plants and treas." 

 In the course of the discussion which 

 followed, Pi'ofessor Beal is reported in 

 the Michigan Farmer to have said "that 

 if people were cheated by the tree agents 

 it served them right, that they deserved 

 to be swindled by tree sellers, for they 

 will neither attend horticultural meet- 

 ings, where they could gain information 

 which would prevent them from being 

 swindled, nor read the horticultural 

 papers and inform themselves." Nor is 

 Professor Beal very far wide of the 

 truth. Ontai'io has been, if it is not 

 now, a favorite tramping ground of tree 

 agents from over the border, just be- 

 cause, as they themselves put it, the 

 ]:)eople did not know enough about 

 fruits to tell an old variety from a new 

 one, or enough about the nature of 

 plants to know that strawberries never 

 grew upon trees, or that trees, whose 

 fruit buds perished by reason of our 

 winter's cold, could not be made hardy 

 by grafting them on French stocks. 

 The Fruit GroweiV Association of 

 Ontario, by means of its meetings for 

 discussion in various parts of th6 Pro- 

 vince, and by the publication of the 

 Canadian Ilm'ticulturist, has been dis- 

 seminating information for many years, 

 and yet to-day, it numbers scarce three 

 thousand members, when it should have 

 thirty thousand. Evei-y man who plants 

 a tree or a currant bush in all Ontario 

 would be benefited far more than his 

 one dollar's worth, and be saved from 



