NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The Short Winter Course of 

 Horticulture at the Nova Scotia School 

 of Horticulture opens Jan. 7th. The 

 course is practical, embracing instruction 

 for the needs of young men engaged in 

 farming or fruit growing. An outline of 

 the course will be furnished on applica- 

 tion to Prof. E. E. Faville, Wolfville. 

 The tuition is free, and the board 

 reasonable. 



The Annual Report of the Bureau 

 of Industries has come to hand. It 

 contains the usual valuable information 

 on weather and crops, live stock, dairy 

 and apiary, farm rents and wages, but 

 does not give enough statistics about the 

 orchard and garden to satisfy the fruit 

 grower. To these only three columns 

 are devoted, while a whole page is given 

 to turnips, the same to carrots, etc. To 

 us it would be very useful and interest- 

 ing to know the quantity of apples, of 

 pears, of peaches, etc., grown in each 

 county. 



We note that the amount of orchard 

 and garden land is increasing, about 

 4,000 acres being added in 1894-5, and 

 10,000 acres in the last ten years. 



Injustice to Canadi.\n Fruit and 

 Fruit Trees. — We have received from 

 the Minister of Agriculture of British 

 Columbia, a copy of a resolution passed 

 by the Board of Horticulture, strongly 

 protesting against a proclamation by His 

 Excellency, Sir H. Robinson, Governor 

 of Cape Colony, strictly prohibiting the 

 importation into that country of stone 

 fruits and trees, scions, roots, or seeds, 

 those of, grown in and being the product 

 of the Dominion of Canada. No doubt 

 this has reference to Black Knot and 

 Yellows, the former of which is seldom 

 seen on nursery stock, and could not be 

 carried in the fruit or in the pits ; and 

 the latter of which is not known in 



Canada, except in a very limited district. 

 The Horticultural Board of K C. claims 

 that that province is entirely free from 

 these diseases, and therefore a special 

 injustice is done to that province. 



The Ladv Apple must be profitable 

 when grown near New York City. Gar- 

 den and Forest says these apples are 

 selling at 15 cents a dozen. Never were 

 they more brilliantly colored. Comice, 

 Winter Nelis, and Sheldon bring $1 to 

 $1.25 per dozen for the finest grade. 

 Surely the Sheldons could not be kept 

 till this date except in cold storage. 



Fruit and Fruit Trees — The 

 following note concerning fruits in 1896 

 appears in Bui. 60, Bureau of Industries 

 for Ontario: — The remarks in the 

 August bulletin regarding the great yield 

 of apples are verified by the reports just 

 received. The yield was enormous, the 

 market is glutted, and in many counties, 

 more especially in Western Ontario, 

 thousands of barrels of good apples are 

 going to waste. The average price per 

 barrel paid farmers is from 40 to 60 

 cents ; extra choice bring slightly higher 

 figures, and poorer sorts go lower. For 

 these prices the grower is usually ex- 

 pected to pick the fruit, board the 

 packers, bring in the empty barrels and 

 carry the filled ones to the station. 

 Some aver that it pays better to feed 

 the fruit to live stock. The codling 

 worm and the canker worm have been 

 reported by a few correspondents, but 

 the bulk of the statements regarding the 

 quality of apples claim that the fruit is 

 remarkably free from worms or other 

 injury. Ice storms last winter, and the 

 heavy bearing of this season, have caused 

 a good many limbs to break, but fruit 

 trees generally are in good condition. 

 Grape vines made a vigorous growth, 

 and the yield of fruit was abundant. 



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