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Gumming of Peach Twigs. — Mr. 

 John Craig, of Ithaca, N.Y,, writes in 

 American Gardening, that he has found 

 the gumming to be associated with 

 monilia fructigena, or grey rot ; and he 

 beheves that the former is caused by the 

 latter. He is of the opinion that both 

 can be overcome by spraying. 



TOMATOE.S FROM CaNAD.\ OUght tO 



succeed. We notice in the Green 

 Grocer of London, an article saying 

 that tomatoes in October were getting 

 scarce, and worth from 3d. to 4d. a 

 lb. These prices would give us excel- 

 lent returns of about fifty cents for a 

 twelve-quart basket, which would make 

 tomato growing one of our best lines of 

 fruit culture. We have not succeeded 

 so far in getting tomatoes over in good 

 condition. We have packed them too 

 ripe. They should not be more than 

 half red. 



Canadian Fruit in London. — Mr. 

 A. W. Grindley, the agent in England, 

 of the Department of Agriculture, says 

 that Canadian consignments of pears 

 and apples are reaching here in very 

 satisfactory condition. Peaches, plums 

 and tomatoes, however, have been 

 gathered too ripe, the result being that 

 most consignments have reached Bristol 

 market in a more or less rotten condi- 

 tion. To a mere layman it appears sur- 

 prising that Canadians have not before 

 taken full advantage of the market here 

 for fruit. Buying apples in the London 

 streets from the hawkers' barrows, one 

 has to pay a penny, or even three half 

 pence for a good " eater," while good 

 eating pears are usually ticketed 2d : yet 

 farmers in Ontario in a good year feed 

 eating apples fully equal to those I have 

 mentioned to their pigs. Surely there is 

 a means of getting such fruit on the Lon- 

 don market in fair condition. 



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