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and ill these arc produced the spores. 

 Tlicse masses soon break through the skin, 

 and the black pustules with the spores ap- 

 pear. The spores arc scattered and the} 

 reinfect other fruit and vines. .\lthough 

 it is possible for a new generation of spores 

 to be borne williiii two weeks, it requires 

 favorable weather o<inflitions for the disease 

 to develop. 



While early sprayings, in some cases, have 

 not been found to give the results expected, 

 the life history of the disease shows that it 

 is wise to endeavor to destrov as many 



spores as possible at or before the first in- 

 fection. The first spraying should be made 

 just after the fruit has set, the third and 

 fourth at intervals of about a week — all with 

 ordinary Bordeaux mixture. There should 

 then be three sprayings with ammoniacal 

 copper carbonate of soda Bordeaux. Al- 

 though the disease will probably not be 

 eradicatefl from a vineyard in one season, 

 the more thoroughly the spraying is done 

 the less trouble there should be. It is now 

 1 6 years since it was conclusively shown 

 that liordeaux mixture would control this. 



GIANT SEEDLESS GOOSEBERRIES 



SAMl'SdX MKKCiAX, RICH J'.i )k(JUGil VILLAS, BRCJADSTAIKS, i:\C.I, AND. 



''I^HE list of seedless fruits is being 

 A rapidly extended. The seedless 

 orange was followed by the seedless plum, 

 which was succeeded by the seedless apple, 

 and now we have the seedless gooseberry. 

 There can be no doubt as to the importance 

 of this latest new comer, at least as far as 

 the fruit trade is concerned. The seedless 

 gooseberry will become popular, directly it 

 is put on sale. Judging from the enor- 

 mously increased consumption of berrv 

 fruits during recent years, it will readilv 

 take a firm hold upon the public taste. 



When this fruit is well grown and 

 ripened, few others surpass it. That is evi- 

 dent when we bear in mind the fact that 

 during the past year gooseberries put up in 

 flat punnets have sold as high as one shil- 

 ling a pound retail and in quantity. Freed 

 from its numerous seeds, the gooseberry of 

 the future will command equal prices with 

 mid-season grapes. The new berrv is not 



onh free from seeds, but it has a remark- 

 ably thin skin, and the amount of acid in 

 the pulp has been reduced materially. The 

 fruit has been almost perfected. 



The hard skin of the old-fashioned goose- 

 l)erry has always been a defect, and one 

 that lias prevented most of the supplies 

 marketed from being sold at more satisfac- 

 tory values. A sweet gooseberry of full 

 size, devoid of seeds, and with a thin soft 

 skin, would be an undoubted acquisition 

 to retailers and consumers. It should, in 

 fact, soon equal the summer grape in popu- 

 larity. The introducer claims that the 

 seeds can in tlue time be eliminated from 

 all of the fruits in commerce, and 

 that it is just as easy to produce a seedless 

 grape and pear as a seedless apple or goose- 

 lierrv. It will surprise many of the public 

 to be told that gooseberries are often grown 

 as large as many kinds of plums. The new 

 seedless berry is of mammoth proportions. 



The Cuthbert raspberry, notwithstanding 

 its liability to kill back at the tips during 

 winter, in a good season leads all others in 

 quantity and quality. — (O. C. Caston, Craig- 

 hurst. Ont. 



Of the cooking cherries, nothing can com- 

 pare with Dukes, a class of semi-sour red 

 cherries that cannot be excelled for sauce 

 and pies. — (Linus A\'oolverton. Grimsby, 

 Ont. 



