A GOOD WORD FOR THE FAMEUSE APPLE. 



Fig. 1352.— Mb. R. Brodie. 



Mr. R. Brodie, of St. Henry of Montreal, who 

 has been elected president of the Poniological 

 Society of Quebec for the present year, has 

 been long and favorably known in fruit cir- 

 cles in that province. His grandfather came 

 from the west of Scotland to Canada in 1803, 

 and bought the farm on which Robert now 

 lives. In a letter recently received he writes 

 as follows : — 



You will see that I have been brought 

 up in the reign of the Old Fanieuse 

 apple, and after trying over loo varieties 

 I have still to say it is the best for qual- 

 ity and commercially. The Mcintosh 



Red, close allied withthe Fameuse, is a 

 more showy apple, but not as good in 

 quality. 



The question was brought up at our 

 La Chute meeting, — Why plant varieties 

 that are subject to fungi, while varieties 

 like Wealthy, Wolf River, and some of the 

 Russians are free from this disease and 

 require no spraying ? In my experience 

 I find that varieties like the Wealthy, 

 Duchess and Alexander, are more sub- 

 ject to attacks of the codling moth, plum 

 curculio, than any of the Fameuse family, 

 and before we found the remedy for the 

 apple spot, (Bordeaux mixture), I used to 

 spray the trees with Paris green to kill 

 the insect enemies, with danger of hurt- 

 ing the foliage. Now in adding Paris 

 green to the Bordeaux mixture we can 

 spray without injuring the tree and kill the 

 insect enemies and fungous growth at the 

 same time. The main thing is to get a 

 good pump. Once, in an old Presby- 

 terian church, there was a dispute about 

 getting an organ, they thought they 

 would refer the matter to an old Quaker. 

 The answer was, " If thee mean to praise 

 God with a machine, be sure and get a 

 good one." If you mean to spray your 

 trees be sure and get a good pump, or 

 you will soon get discouraged. 



CONVENIEN r WEIGHTS. 



A quart of water weighs nearly 2 lbs., 

 and is equal to a square box of about 

 4x4 inches and 35^ inches deep. 



A gallon of water weighs from 8 to 

 10 lbs., according to the size of the gal- 

 lon, and is equal to a box 6x6 inches 

 square, and 6 x 7 or 7J/2 inches deep. 



A peck is equal to a box 8x8 inches 

 square and 8 inches deep. 



A bushel almost fills a box 12x12 



inches square and 24 inches deep, or 

 2 cubic feet. 



A cubic foot of water weighs nearly 

 64 lbs. (more correctly, 62^ lbs.), and 

 contains from 7 to 8 gallons according 

 to the kind of gallon used. 



A barrel of water almost fills a box 

 2x2 feet square and i)^ feet deep, or 

 6 cubic feet. 



Petroleum barrels contain 40 gallons, 

 or nearly 5 cubic feet. 



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