NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



Chrysanthemum Culture, by Jas. 

 Morton, was the book recommended by 

 Prof. Hutt, in his address, as a guide to 

 amateur growers. 



The Holiday Number of the New 

 York Fruit Trade Journal is a very fine 

 issue, and full of illustrations. Of course 

 it deals with matters connected with the 

 fruit trade rather than with the interests 

 of the fruit grower, but it keeps one 

 thoroughly posted on the outlook for the 

 sale of fruits. It is accompanied by a 

 pretty calendar, with beautiful colored 

 illustrations. 



The Spraymotor pump was exhib- 

 ited at our Waterloo meeting, by Mr. 

 Heard. He exhibited a new plunger of 

 the greatest value in lessening the work 

 of pumping, and at the same time mak- 

 ing the pump do better work than ever. 



either of the others and was more pro- 

 lific. In computing each column of the 

 following table, the sum of the length of 

 all the rows and the total product of 

 each variety was taken, and from these 

 the product and net returns of loo feet 

 of row was reckoned. The average net 

 price was found by taking the total sales 

 of each variety, less cost of fi eight, cart- 

 age and commission and dividing it by 

 the total number of quarts marketed of 

 each variety. As we had no regular 

 rows of Beder Wood we merely give the 

 dates of the first and last shipments, and 

 the average price per quart in a local 

 market. 



The Hu^N Strawberry is being 

 offered for the coming spring. It origi- 

 nated with C. E. Hunn, of the New 

 York Experiment Station at Geneva, 

 N. Y.. a seedling of Johnson's late fer- 

 tilized by Sharpless. In 1894, Prof. 

 Beach spoke of it as giving a large yield, 

 and described it thus : " It is very vigor- 

 ous, of good dark color, large size and 

 borne on long strong stems. Four 

 rows of this variety in blossom are 

 shown in Plate I, which shows the 

 strong up-right fruit-stems and large, 

 vigorous leaves." 



The following tabulated statement, 

 made by a grower at Middlehope, N. Y., 

 will show the various points of compari- 

 son of the diflFerent varieties. The 

 appearance and shipping qualities of the 

 Bubach, Sharpless and No. 208 being 

 so similar, all were packed together and 

 no separate account was kept. This 

 will extend the apparent length of season 

 of the Bubach, and also lower its show- 

 ing for productiveness. For it com- 

 menced and ended fruiting earlier than 



We do not speak of this berry from 

 experience ; indeed, we do not know 

 that any one in Canada has fully tested 

 the berry. 



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