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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



January, 1912 



Quebec Fruit Gro vipers' Annual Convention 



iHE winter meeting of the Pomological 

 and Fruit Growing Society of the 

 Province of Quebec was held at Mao- 

 donald College December 5th and 

 6th. From the opening until the close of 

 Wednesday night a spirit of hopefulness 

 and encouragement pervaded the meetings. 

 Every person was convinced that the imit 

 industry in the province of Quebec was at 

 the dawn of a great awakening, and that 

 the capabilities in this line were very 

 great. 



The meeting was called to order by the 

 president, Rev. H. A. Dickson of Rectory 

 Hill. Sharp on time the large assembly 

 hall of Macdonald College was well occu- 

 pied by representative growers from the 

 province. Dr. Harrison welcomed the del- 

 egates to the college. The enthusiastic 

 gathering and the excellent display of fruit 

 surpassed anything he had seen in the prov- 

 ince. He was satisfied that a still greater 

 impression might be made if the fruit mea, 

 the vegetable growers and the florists would 

 unite, and hold an exhibition in Montreal, 

 which would surpass anything yet attempt- 

 ed in this province. He believed that such 

 an exhibition might be made a financial suc- 

 cess and that it would attract widespread 

 attention. 



The president reviewed the work done in 

 the past and outlined the hope for the fu- 

 ture. He said that the crying need of the 

 people was for more information — exact in- 

 formation. One way of obtaining this was 

 , for the society to keep in touch with the 

 trees purchased anid distributed so that 

 reliable data might be obtained concerning 

 i:^ny variety in the different sections where 

 fruit may be grown. 



The ©lection of officers resulted as fol- 

 lows: 



Hon. patrons — Hon. Martin Burrell, 

 Hon. Sydney Fisher, Hon. J. E. Caron and 

 Mr. G. A. Gigeault. 



Hon. president — Prof. W. G. Blair. 



Hon. vice-president — Rev. H. A. Dick- 

 son. 



President — C. P. Newman. 



Vice-president — Father Leopold, La 

 Trappe. 



Sec.-Treas. — Peter Reid. 



Directors — Me.ssrs. G. B. Edwards, Chas. 

 Byers, G. P. Hitchcock, A. D. Verreauit, 

 Auguste Dupuis, Robert Brodie, Dr. W. 

 Grignon, H. W. Thompson and N. E. Jack. 



INSECT PESTS 



Mr. A. Gibson, of the Central Experi- 

 mental Farm, Ottawa, was the next speak- 

 er. After pointing out the loss which an- 

 nually occurred to the fruit indxistry in 

 Quebec on account of the various insect 

 pests which attack fruit, he confined his 

 remarks to the Apple Maggot, the Codling 

 Moth and the Plum Curculio. By precept 

 and example Mr. Gibson showed the neces- 

 sity for clean culture in the orchard, with- 

 out throwing discredit on the standard 

 sprays. Spraying is of little avail, how- 

 ever, in dealing with such insects as the 

 Apple Maggot, which live and move inside 

 the fruit, unless great care is exercised in 

 Slathering up all windfalls and destroying 

 them. If not fed to cattle they must be 

 buried or burned. This is essential if prog- 

 ress is ever to be made in dealing with 

 such pests. The importance of cooperative 

 work was also pointed out. Any man is 

 much handicapped in fighting insects if he 

 fights alone. Beside the unfairness, he can- 



not accomplish what he otherwise would if 

 his neighbor fails to do his duty in the care 

 of his orchard. This paper will be pub- 

 lished in The Canadian Horticulturist. 



J. C. Chapais, St. Denis-en-bas, in his 

 usual pleasing manner, spoke of the re- 

 crudescence of orchard pests in Eastern 

 Quebec. He referred to the fight which 

 men were obliged to put up if they were to 

 produce marketable fruit and to meet their 

 competitors from the west. He was of the 

 oi)inion that the department of entomol- 

 ogy should send one or more experts to 

 different localities, and to si)ecialize on such 

 insects as cause trouble there. Such ex- 

 perts should remain on the ground and 

 study these pests in the orchard, until pre- 

 pared to report on same. Judging from 

 the approval which this statement received 

 it w"as the unanimous wish of the associa- 

 tion. 



CLEAN CULTURE 



Dr. H. T. Gussow, botanist of Central 

 Experimental Farm, spoke on the Nature 

 of Parasitic Fungi and their Influence on 

 the Host Plants. The address was iUuB- 

 trated by lantern slides. The nature of 

 fungi, methods of reproduction, manner of 

 attack and control were dealt with. Dr. 

 Gussow was satisfied that fruit men must 

 give more attention to clean culture, if 

 disease was to be controlled. This was 

 equally important with fungi as with in- 

 sect pests. Another point which should re- 

 ceive more attention was the selection of 

 resistant varieties. If twenty men are ex- 

 posed to contagion often only twenty per- 

 cent, become diseased. With plants we 

 have like conditions. In many cases they 

 are somewhat immune, and with ordinary 



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