NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



after setting, and then thoroughly raking 

 in. For grape vines he advised ^ of 

 bone meal and ^ of muriate of potash. 

 For ordinary farm crops he advised 2 

 parts of lime and i part of salt, mixed 

 with sods and left to stand three or four 

 months. For mucky soil add bone meal 

 and ashes. 



San Josk Scale Bill Passed. — Our 

 readers will be pleased to note that the 

 Dominion has passed the Hon. F. Fish- 

 er's bill to protect Canada against the 

 introduction of the San Jose Scale. 

 Notwithstanding the sweeping nature of 

 this bill which empowers the Governor- 

 General in Council at any time to pro- 

 hibit the importation of nursery stock 

 from any country in which the Scale is 

 known to exist. The following is the 



text of the bill : 



2. The importation of any trees, shrubs, 

 plants, vines, grafts, cuttings or buds, com- 

 monly called nursery stock, from any country 

 or place to which this Act applies is pro- 

 hibited. 



3. Any nursery stock so imported shall be 

 forfeited to the Crown and be destroyed, and 

 any person importing nursery stock from any 

 such country or place, or causing or permit- 

 ting it to be so imported, shall be deemed to 

 be guilty of an offence under section 6 of The 

 Customs Tari^, 1897, and shall be liable to 

 the penalty prescribed by that section. 



4. The Governor in Council may from time 

 to time declare that this Act applies to any 

 country or place as to which it has been made 

 to appear that San Jose Scale exists therein ; 

 and, when satisfied that the importation of 

 nursery stock from any country or place to 

 which this Act has been applied may safely 

 be permitted, he may in like manner declare 

 that this Act no longer applies to such country 

 or place. 



5. The Governor in Council, upon its being 

 made to appear to his satisfaction that any 

 class of plants is not liable to the attack of 

 the San Jose scale, niay exempt plants of such 

 class, and grafts, cuttings or buds thereof 

 from the operation of this Act. 



6. The Governor in Council may from time 

 to time, notwithstanding anything contained 

 in this Act, permit the importation from any 

 country or place to which this Act applies of 

 such nursery stock as is required for scientific 

 purposes. 



This act may seem at first to be in 

 the interests of nurserymen, but it is 

 equally in the interests of all fruit grow- 

 ers and farmers. For if once our 

 orchards became infested with this scale, 



our export trade in fruit will be closed, 

 and our fruit growers may as well dig 

 out their orchards. Already the Ger- 

 man ports have been closed against 

 United States fruit on this account, and 

 England will no doubt follow suit against 

 all countries where orchards are known 

 to be infested. 



Our Association has done a wise thing 

 in making a strong appeal to the Domin- 

 ion for legislation. 



The Apple Puzzle. — We have re- 

 ceived several correct solutions of the 

 apple puzzle which appeared on page 

 114, and give place to one or two. 

 Mr. F. T. Morson, St. Thomas, writes : 



Regarding the Apple Puzzle published in 

 March issue of the "Canadian Horticul- 

 TCRiST," would give my explanation as fol- 

 lows : calling them respectively the 2- Apple- 

 man and 3Applenian, the 2-Appleman goes 

 to the market and after having made 10 sales 

 at the rate of 5 apples for 2c. the 3-Apple- 

 man's apples are all sold, while the 2-Apple- 

 man has 10 apples left and has received 20c. 

 These remaining 10 apples, as they belong to 

 the 2-Appleman, should have been sold at the 

 rate of Y. for Ic, which would bring him 5c. 

 more, thus making a total of 25c. He, how- 

 ever, sold remaining 10 apples at the rate of 

 5 or 2c., realizing 4c., making a total of 24c. 

 The mistake being that he sold 10 of his own 

 apples at a cheaper rate than he should have 

 done. 



Alice M. Dudley, Toronto, writes : 

 2 for 1 cent. 3 for 1 cent. 



But there are 30 apples in A to begin with, 

 and only 30 in B also ; where did the 36 come 

 from ? and what happened the 6 when only 

 24 were sold out of A. ? The 6 out of A were 

 counted with the apples in B ; i.e., instead of 

 selling 6 at the rate of 2 for 1 cent, they were 

 sold at the rate of 3 for Ic, which gives a 

 difiFerence of Ic. 



Apple Puzzle — Solutions have also 

 been received from S. Spillett, Nantyre, 

 and from Harold Ward, Napanee. 



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