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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



The Canker Worm is very troublesome 

 in some parts, and must be fought persist- 

 ently if the trees are to be saved from de- 

 struction. Sticky bandages applied in fall 

 or spring will catch the wingless female 

 moths as they climb the tree to deposit their 

 eggs. Failing this, spraying with Paris 

 green, 4 ounces to 40 gallons of water, when 

 the young worms first appear on the young 

 foliage, is effective. If neglected until they 

 grow a little, they are much more difficult 



to kill. 



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Baskets and Boxes for the coming sea- 

 son's fruit crop should be laid in early. The 

 popular basket for currants, gooseberries, 

 cherries, choice peaches and choice pears is 

 the 6 2-3 imperial quart basket holding about 

 nine pounds of fruit, or nearly one peck. The 

 12 quart (imperial) is too large except for 

 apples, pears, tomatoes and second size 

 peaches. The accepted apple box is 10 x 1 1 x 

 20, holding about one bushel. These may be 

 ordered in the flat, ready for nailing, which 

 can be done by hand for less than one cent a 

 box. Such boxes should be turned out at 

 a regular box factory for about $10.00 a 



hundred. 



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A Fine Collection for the forestry ex-, 

 hibit at St. Louis has just been forwarded 

 the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, by 

 K. N. Grout, Grimsby, containing one wal- 

 nut board, 21 inches x 12 ft. x i f t ; one but- 

 ternut board, 16 inches x 12 ft. x i in. ; one 

 sassafras board, 18 inches x 12 ft. x ^ in. : 

 one chestnut board, 21 inches x 8 ft. x i in. ; 

 one basswood board, 19 inches x 11 ft. x 

 ^ in. 



Pack to Command Buyers 



AFTER each season all fruit growers 

 come to the same conclusion, viz., 

 that more care in packing and in selecting 

 would pay ; but as often, when the new sea- 

 son comes around, is the same old way fol- 



lowed up. We believe the selection might 

 well begin in the orchard, where only the 

 larger and finer fruits are worth gathering. 

 Poor, scabby and small specimens of pears, 

 apples and peaches should never be touched 

 except to thin the tree and give the better 

 fruit a chance. It costs money to pick the 

 rubbish, and money to cart it to the packing 

 house, and money to assort it out, and 

 money for baskets and boxes if it be ship- 

 ped, and lessens the returns for good stock 

 if sold in the same market. 



R. A. Donald, of Toronto, writes our 

 director Caston, saying he has just returned 

 from the Northwest and has been amazed 

 at the lack of forethought on the part of 

 Ontario fruit growers and shippers. "Fruit 

 from our province," says he, " is far better 

 than that from any other place, but it will 

 not sell in competition with stufT from other 

 places until there is more style about its 

 packing and more selection about the fruit. 

 I would impress upon you strongly the ne- 

 cessity of packing your fruit in nice, small 

 baskets, the fruit carefully selected and 

 wrapped, in order to catch the best custom- 

 ers and make the largest sales. This year 

 we had a glut of plums, but in other parts 

 these were much sought after. Now had 

 these been selected, wrapped and nicely 

 packed in five pound baskets, they could 

 have been shipped to the west in such a con- 

 dition as to have positively forced them- 

 selves upon the attention of the consuming 

 public. 



Pruning the Norway Spruce 



A 



MEMBER of the Waterloo Horti- 

 cultural Society writes : 



" I have seven Spruce trees in my lawn about 

 eight years planted. I am thinking of prun- 

 ing them into different shapes, such as square, 

 round, diamond, three cornered, etc. Could 

 you give me some pointers to guide me ?" 



To bring evergreens into shapes, such as 

 our correspondent desires, is a gradual work 

 and cannot be done in one or two cuttings. 



