MEETING OF THE QUEBEC POMOLOCxICAL SO- 

 CIETY AT STANSTEAD PLAIN, QUE. 



£y[ f-s^H IC province of (Quebec has two 

 provincial Horticultural Socie- 

 ties : — (i) The Montreal Hor- 

 ticultural Society, is more or 

 less local in its character and has to do 

 with the floricultural section of Horti- 

 culture more intimately than the pomo- 

 logical branch. (2) The Pomological 

 Association studies the adaptability of 

 the various divisions of the province, to 

 the growth and cultivation of the large 

 and small fruits. An interesting meet- 

 ing of this latter Society was held at 

 Stanstead on 17th and iSth Aug. The 

 Quebec Pomological Society still retains 

 the good old-fashioned plan of holding 

 summer sessions. These summer ses- 

 sions have many advantages. Members 

 who attend are often enabled to secure 

 valuable object lessons by studying the 

 fruits, particularly of the summer types, 

 on exhibition and in the orchards of the 

 place where the meeting is held. Stan- 

 stead is situated near the Vermont bor- 

 der, about 9 miles from Newport, Vt. 

 It is the centre of one of the finest farm- 

 ing and dairying sections in the province 

 of Quebec. The configuration of the 

 country is rolling, and in places quite 

 hilly. Many of these hills present most 

 favourable exposures for the cultivation 

 of apples. A view from the top of some 

 hills presents a magnificent panorama 

 of hill top, valley, lake and river. Jay 

 Peak, Camel's Hump and Mount Hos- 

 ford are prominent features of the dis- 

 tant landscape. 



The meeting of this year, while not 

 as large as it should have been, was 

 attended by representative fruit growers 

 from all portions of the province. 

 Messrs. Chapais and Dupuis, of L'Islet, 

 and the Lower St. Lawrence ; Messrs. 

 Fisk and Craig, of Abbotsford ; Messrs. 



Shepherd, Dunlop and Brodie, of the 

 Montreal district, were among the prom- 

 inent members present. 



President Brodie's address was hope- 

 ful and buoyant. While fruit crop of this 

 year was light, as to quantity, and not 

 up to par as to quality, yet the progres- 

 sive fruit grower who practiced the best 

 method was reaping his reward in secur- 

 ing fruit better in quality than that of his 

 slovenly neighbor. 



Mr. Craig, Horticulturist, Central 

 Experimental Farm, Ottawa, gave an 

 address on " Orchard Enemies of the 

 Year " The season had been abnormal 

 in many respects, and for this reason 

 some diseases and some insects had been 

 unusually abundant. Among fungous 

 diseases, Fiiskladium i" Apple Spot) and 

 Gooseberry Mildew were said to be 

 particularly injurious. Mr. Craig recom- 

 mended the use of Copper sulphate in 

 preventing the spread of the latter dis- 

 ease late in the season. This should be 

 used at the rate of one pound to 300 

 gallons of water. Bean Anthracnose 

 was also an increasingly injurious dis 

 ease. Soaking the seed before planting 

 in a one and one half percent .solution 

 of copper sulphate was the best remedy. 



Among the particularly injurious in- 

 sects of the season were. Tent Cater- 

 pillar and Aphis. The latter had been 

 a first-class pest in most portions of the 

 Dominion. Tobacco water, (10 pounds 

 of tobacco waste to 50 gallons of water, 

 with 2 pounds of whale oil soap) had 

 been found to be the most effective 

 remedy. 



Mr. J. C Chapais, of St. Denis, Kam- 

 ouraska, announced that the winter of 

 1896 97 had been the most severe in its 

 effects on orchard trees that had visited 

 that vicinity since 1857. Many orchards 



