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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



PROSPECTS IN INLAND COUNTIES. 



Prom inland counties come the best reports 

 for apples. Dufferin, Peterborough and the 

 south part of Simcoe promise as good or better 

 yield than last year. Pear trees are very 

 scarce and the yield poor. Plums are reported 

 as being a medium to full crop. Small fruits, 

 too, are plentiful. 



OTHER SECTION'S. 



Aipples promise to be a heavier crop in the 

 Otta^\'^a valley than they were a year ago. Mc- 

 intosh, Wealthy and Fameuse are quoted as be- 

 ing a good crop. A noticeable feature is the 

 absence of fungous diseases. In Muskoka 

 apples are reported up to last season's crop 

 and coming in earlier. In Algoma district the 

 promise is slightly better than 1904. Pears 

 and plums have not recovered from the winter 

 of 1903 and 1904. All small fruits are a heavy 

 crop. 



Fruit Crop Notes 



Writing from Essex county, J. O. Duke, of 

 Olinda, says that present appearances point to 

 the apples of that section being quite wormy. 



Jas. Symington, of Port Dover, reports that 

 strawberries were light, tout other fruits will be 

 a good crop. 



A report from Robt. Thompson, of St. Catha- 

 rines, says that the hot weather is having a 

 good effect in preventing rot on the grapes. 



From Hamilton R. H. Lewis reports that black 

 rot has already started. 



On July 19 John Rice, of Whitby, writes that 

 appearances earlier in the season favored a 

 large crop, but continued wet weather caused 

 much of the fruit to drop.- 



From Bond Head, H. B. Jeffs reports that 

 plums have been infested with a host of " little 

 Iblack bugs " and that black knot is very preva- 

 lent. 



D. M. Lee reports from Paris that raspberri-^ 

 are a short crop and that plums have nearly all 

 rotted. 



In the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, 

 the fruit is expected to ripen a week or 10 daiys 

 earlier than usual owing to warm dry weather. 



J. E. McNeill, of Wanstead, Lambton county, 

 has a fine quince tree which has borne a good 

 crop each .season for five years. 



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