THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



crevices of the boxes or barrels in which 

 the fruit is kept, and in many a nice 

 hiding place about the room. Where- 

 ever there is a second brood the traps 

 should be left on the tree trunks until a 

 fortnight or more after the apples have 

 all been removed from the orchard, 

 none left even on the ground, when 

 they may be again put through the 

 wringer and put away until another sea- 

 son. About the time the moths appear 

 again in the orchard, the second brood 

 moths may be found in the cellars in 

 which fruit has been kept. The writer 

 has seen large numbers fluttering at the 

 windows of his fruit cellar seeking to 

 get out ; if these are prevented from 

 escaping they will ere long perish with- 

 out doing any further mischief. 



The territorial limits of the second 

 brood have not yet been ascertained. 

 Our Dominion entomologist, Mr. Fletch- 

 er, says that there is but one brood at 

 Ottawa, and believes that this holds 

 good up to Toronto. Whether there is 

 more than one in the fine apple growing 

 region of the Beaver Valley and of the 

 whole south shore of the Georgian Bay, 

 the writer is not informed, but if only 

 one brood, then the worms that form 

 cocoons in the summer will remain in 

 them until the next spring ; whence, 

 after passing a short time in the pupa 

 state, they will emerge as moths. 



The sum of the matter is this; the 



calyx basin of the apple blossom is open 

 for the' reception of a poison for only a 

 few days ; the moths do not lay their 

 eggs until after the basin is closed and 

 deposit them anywhere on the surface 

 of the apples ; these are hatched in a 

 few days and the greater part of the 

 worms work their way into the calyx 

 basin and feed around in it for several 

 days ; the fruit grower may, if watch- 

 ful, improve the opportunity to put into 

 the open basin a poison that will be 

 safely kept by the closing of the calyx 

 segments until the worms in feeding get 

 it ; the best poison is Paris-green, which 

 can be put into the basin by timely and 

 thorough spraying ; the worms which do 

 not die by the poison may be caught, 

 some in the apples that fall prematurely, 

 and more in paper bands tied on to 

 the trunks of the trees and passed every 

 ten days between the rollers of a clothes- 

 wringer ; in those places where there is 

 a second brood, the injury done by that 

 brood will be lessened in proportion to 

 the number of the worms destroyed in 

 the prematurely fallen fruit and by the 

 • wringer ; and the next year's crop will 

 be benefited by keeping all that may 

 be taken with the fruit into cellar or 

 fruit room securely shut in until they 

 perish. 



D. W. Beadle. 



joj Crawford St , Toronto. 



ANTIQUITY OF FRUIT. 



'ES didn't our forefathers know 

 how to relish fruit as much as 

 we do now, and they too en- 

 joyed their simple varieties as 

 much as we do our most choice kinds. 

 Indeed some of the very kinds we culti- 

 vate now in our orchards, our ancestors 

 planted, tended and harvested the fruit. 



See for instance our much valued 

 " Greengage " plum, how was it named, 

 just merely by accident being intro- 

 duced into England from France by the 

 Earl of Stair, under the name of " Green 

 Spanish." The Gage Family in the 

 last century procured from the monks of 

 the Chartreuse at Paris, a collection of 



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