SPRAYING A SUCCESS IN QUEBEC. 



These latter goods will be needed, 

 for their day of sorrow will surely come. 

 I am about forty miles north of the lati- 

 tude of Hamilton, and such roses as La 

 France, Margaret Dickson, Pierre 

 Netting and even Ulrich Brunner I 

 would not think of calling hardy. 



In his list of 12 hardy roses Mr. 

 Webster again includes La France and 

 again in his list of hybrid teas. In 

 his list of 20 varieties Mr. Webster 

 does not include the old rose, Jules 

 Margotten, yet it is quite as hardy as 

 many that he does include, with finer 

 foliage, a stronger grower and heavier 

 bloomer than any one of them. 



If it is bloom that is wanted I do not 

 think I would recommend twenty vari- 

 eties to anybody. I certainly should 



not recommend twelve dark ones and 

 include in them Pierre Notting, Louis 

 Van Houtte and Abel Carrier and leave 

 our Gen. Jacqueminot. But as it is too 

 late to purchase this fall, and a num- 

 ber of correspondents have asked 

 for lists by letter, I will endeavor 

 before the spring season comes to send 

 you foi publication a guilt edged list 

 suitable for latitudes from Guelph north- 

 ward. We cannot all live in such 

 favored latitudes as Hamilton, otherwise 

 I would like to revel in varieties that I 

 dare not touch here, having due regard 

 for the season of disappointment sure to 

 follow an investment in and trial o 

 them. 



T. H. Race. 

 Mitchell. 



SPRAYING A SUCCESS IN QUEBEC. 



DWISH to say that I am a complete 

 convert to the idea that spraying 

 will clear us of the fungus. The 

 first year I applied it was three 

 years ago, and I made the test in this 

 way. I left two or three trees in each 

 orchard, which had no application at all 

 of the Bordeaux mixture. The differ- 

 ence between the fruit on the trees not 

 sprayed and the others were very mark- 

 ed. The fruit on the unsprayed trees 

 was unsalable and miserable. Not only 

 that, but the leaves were badly attacked 

 by the insects, and the trees made very 

 little growth. Last season the fruit gen- 

 erally was better than it has been for 

 some years. Out of a crop of five hun- 

 dred barrels, I do not believe I had one 

 barrel of spotted fruit. The St. Law- 

 rence were the worst spotted ; My 

 Fameuse were very clear. I have in 

 one of my orchards about twenty trees 

 of the St. Lawrence which are now 

 twenty years old. They were planted too 



close together, so that the branches in- 

 tersect, and it is impossible to get round 

 the trees, and you can only spray from 

 two sides. The spraying was carefully 

 done, but the Bordeaux mixture never 

 fell on the leaves between the trees at 

 all, and the result was when we began 

 to pick the St. Lawrence they were 

 splendid looking from the outside, but 

 when we opened out the branches were 

 they were intersected, the fruit was ab- 

 solutely unfit for eating or selling, and 

 almost altogether covered with the fun- 

 gus. My man was very much struck 

 with that, and became quite convinced 

 of the good effect of spraying. He had 

 previously been a little doubtful, but was 

 now quite convinced. It was one of the 

 clearest evidences that the Bordeaux 

 mixture, well applied, with a good pump, 

 and applied at least three times, will 

 give us good fruit. — Report Pomological 

 Society of Quebec. 



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