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Fruit Growers in P.E.I, are organ- 

 izing a provincial Society, and are asking 

 for Government patronage. 



The TABULATED RESULTS of Mr. 



Orr's work, which appeared on page 156, 

 should be credited to W. H. Heard, 

 London, who prepared it for his cata- 

 logue of spramotor pumps. 



The Hamilton Horticultural So- 

 ciety held a monthly meeting on Mon- 

 day evening. May 2nd. An address 

 was given before the Society on "The 

 Garden and Lawn," by the Secretary of 

 the Ontario F. G. A. 



San Jose Scale. — Articles appear 

 from time to time, copied from Ameri 

 can papers, which lead one to suppose 

 that too much alarm has been aroused, 

 and that the insect is not so terrible a 



pest after all. One has only to visit 

 orchards that are affected, and that are 

 dying with the Scale, such as we have 

 seen, to be convinced that the danger is 

 a real one. 



Raspberries have in many instances 

 been rooted out this season because 

 unprofitable. Indeed, last year the 

 writer counted a cash loss of $25 on 

 two acres of Cuthbert raspberries, and 

 many other fruits gave similar results ; 

 but we have not dug out either the 

 raspberries or the other fruits, believing 

 that low prices will not always prevail, 

 and that it is unwise to be fickle in fruit 

 cultivation. We shall be false prophets 

 if better results do not meet the fruit 

 grower in 1898. 



The War between the United States 

 and Spain may possibly serve to increase 



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