THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Court, from May to October, 1899. 



This letter points out the small amount 



of space at the Paris Exposition, that 



will be at the disposal of the British 



colonies, viz., 60,000 square feet ; and 



the cost of this space, which will be 10/ 



per square foot. 



" Under these considerations," says the 

 letter, " a proposal has been made to the 

 Premier of your Colony, that he should be 

 otticially represented at the Earl's Court Ex- 

 hibition, where its wealth, resources and 

 manufactures would be brought before the 

 public of the United Kingdom." 



This matter is under the considera- 

 tion of the Hon. Sidney Fisher, who is 

 presently to visit England, and will 

 inquire into it fully, as well as into other 

 questions of vital importance to the ex- 

 port trade of Canada's fruit product. 



Grafting. — A subscriber asks if the 

 ends of the scions should be waxed, 

 when grafted This we never do our- 

 selves, and yet meet with very good 

 success. Mr. W. T. Macoun, Horticul- 

 turist, Ottawa, says : " We have not 

 found it actually necessary to do this 

 here, but find that the scions sopietimes 

 split back to the first bud if this is not 

 done, so that as a general rule it is best 

 to wax." 



Hersee's Strawberry is a fine Size, 

 but samples which came to hand, June 

 13, were over-ripe for sampling. Mr. 

 Hersee writes: "This berry was ripe 

 last year, June 5th." He claims for it 

 productiveness, good flavor, and unifor- 

 mity of shape, in addition to coolness. 



Mr. E, B. Stevenson's strawberry 

 experiments are being continued with 

 much interest on his part, and much to 

 the public advantage. Some of his hy- 

 brids, especially B. No. 3, are enormous 

 in size. The writer and assistant visited 

 his experiment plots on the 15th of 

 June, and secured excellent photos of 

 the following varieties : — Carrie, Glen 



Mary, Margaret, Wm. Belt, Ridgeway, 

 Hall's Favorite, Seaford, Geisler, Mas- 

 todon, Greenville, Tennessee, Bubach, 

 Nick Ohmer, Van Deman. 



Apple Scab. — The scab has suddenly 

 appeared (June 16), upon the apples, 

 in a severe form. The Department has 

 sent out a circular warning the public 

 of the great danger to their orchards 

 if spraying is neglected. 



The Larch Sawfly. — On visiting 

 Guelph on the 24th of June, we were 

 surprised at the brown and dead ap- 

 pearance of the grove of larches across 

 the road in front of the College, until 

 we learned from Prof. Hutt that it was 

 being devastated by a new enemy, in 

 this section, viz., Nemattis Ericsoni, the 

 larch sawfly. So suddenly had this 

 appeared, and so quickly had it stripped 

 the trees, that the mischief was done 

 before its presence was detected. Mr. 

 W. M. Orr, reports a similar worm af- 

 fecting the native spruce on the moun- 

 tain above Stoney Creek. It strips the 

 trees bare of foliage, as a fire would do, 

 and that very quickly. Evidently we 

 must fight or give up to the worm. 



A GOOD Record. — Mr. Fred. A. 

 Saunders, youngest son of Dr. Wm. 

 Saunders of Ottawa, an honor graduate 

 in science of Toronto University, has 

 recently been awarded a scholarship 

 in Physics at John Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore. Now he has won the fel- 

 lowship for 1898 to '99, the highest 

 acknowledgment of merit in the gift of 

 the University. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle announces 

 that Mr. FetisoflF, an amateur horti- 

 culturist at Voronezh, Russia, has ac- 

 hieved what was believed to be im- 

 possible, the production of jet black 

 roses. No details of the process have 

 been received. 



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