NOTES AXD COMMENTS. 



Spraying in Blossoming Time. — In 

 open letters Mr. Holterman calls atten- 

 tion to the transgression of the law in 

 certain sections. The Fruit Growers' 

 Association has no sympathy with such 

 violation, because the bee is the best 

 friend of the fruit grower, and we desire 

 to be known as its special guardians. 



Newtown Pippins are a short crop 

 this year. In Virginia the Yellow New- 

 town Pippin is the most valued export 

 apple ; it is known and exported under 

 the name of the Albermarle Pippin ; but 

 this year the whole crop of this apple in 

 the State does not amount to more than 

 I, coo barrels. The price for the first 

 grade, in even this year of low prices, 

 is $6 per barrel in New York City, and 

 about $8 in Liverpool, according to 

 Garden and Forest. Ordinary stock, 

 however, of this and other winter apples, 

 is but 6oc. to $1.25 per barrel. 



Regarding the Fruit Tariff, the 

 following resolution was passed by our 

 Association at Kingston, viz. : — M. 

 Burrell moved, seconded by E. D. 

 Smith, that "for the guidance of the 

 committee appointed to appear before 

 the tariflT commission, this meeting ex- 

 presses the opinion that the present 

 import duties on fruit should be main- 

 tained as they are, with these changes : 

 the ad valorem duty on pears and plums 

 of twenty and twenty-five per cent, 

 respectively be changed to a specific 

 duty of one cent per pound, and that 

 the duty on imported peaches be in- 

 creased to two cents a pound." The 

 resolution was carried unanimously. E. 

 D. Smith moved, seconded by M. 

 Pettit, that "as it is extremely important 

 to prevent the utter ruin of Canadian 

 nurserymen, by unfair competition of 

 the United States nurserymen, driven to 



selling stock at a frightful loss by the 

 enormous production of southern nurs- 

 erymen, and as the consequence of such 

 ruin of Canadian nurserymen, this coun- 

 try would be flooded with southern 

 grown stock, which, though fine in 

 appearance, is not at all suited for plant- 

 ing in Canada, this meeting is of opinion 

 that the existing duties on such stock 

 should be maintained." The resolution 

 was carried without dissent. 



Peaches in the Latitude of Hud- 

 .son's Bay. — Mr. Arthur K. Grant, of 

 Armstrong, B C, writes as follows : A 

 few peach trees planted here in favorable 

 location have borne fruit the past two 

 years. As this locality is over fifty 

 degrees north, it is, I presume, the most 

 northern point in America where this 

 tender fruit has matured. Fifty and 

 half degrees north would place the fruit 

 growers of Ontario near the waters of 

 Hudson Bav- 



Cold Storage in Nova Scotia. — 

 During the recent trip of the Hon. S. 

 Fisher and Dr. Saunders throughout 

 Nova Scotia, the fruit growers were met 

 at the Horticultural School at Wolfville, 

 and were very enthusiastic over the 

 prospect of the cold storage accommo- 

 dation proposed by the Hon. Minister 

 for the encouragement of the export 

 trade in fruit. The growers seemed to 

 agree in favoring Halifax, their shipping 

 port, as the best place for a cold storage 

 house on a large scale, where the fruit 

 could be kept at an even low tempera- 

 ture until placed in cold apartments on 

 the steamship. We acknowledge receipt 

 of the Acadia l'>uit Grower, from the 

 I'resident of the Association, Mr. C. W. 

 Bigelow, containing a full account of 

 the above meeting. 



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