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II. But if white grubs, or larva of the June beetle are meant, the best remedy 

 is adopting the one year system of growing strawberries, as recommended some 

 years ago by Mr. Dempsey, in one of our Fruit Growers' Association reports. 

 By this method the old plants are ploughed up as soon as the runners are 

 rooted, the latter only being left, every year. 



Peaches for Brant County. 



6§6. 81R, — Coiilil you name any peaches that are more suited to this section than 

 Crosbj', Uyie's Surprise, Horton's Rivers, Early Crawford ? This latter does not seem to 

 succeed well in this section. 



Ed. Maus, Echo Place. 



Reply by W. IV. HiUborn, Leamington. 



I would recommend Alexander, Barnard, Crosby, Tyehurst, Hill's Chili. 

 The two latter are the most hardy of any that I have thoroughly tested in this 

 locality. 



Dwarf Apples. 



6S7. SiK, — Please give me your opinion of dwarf apples. Are they hardy and pro- 

 ductive? Wm. Hasna, Rorkton, Ont. 



Apples trees are dwarfed by grafting or budding them on the slow growing 

 Paradise stock. This is thought to be hardy, and on that account much 

 planted about Montreal, but the chief value of dwarf apples is their early fruit- 

 ing, and the fact that they can be kept in such small compass that a great many 

 varieties can be grown in a small garden. Tree for tree, when full grown, they 

 are not capable of producing nearly as much as standards. Besides many 

 excellent varieties are quite hardy in the cold sections. 



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The Fameuse Apple. 



•Sir, — Please accept this Christmas box of Huron Snow apples; it will [jerhaps 

 strengthen your opinion as to their place as a dessert apple when properly grown, and, 

 thanks to the knowledge of spraying, my one tree gave me three barrels cf splendid apples, 

 perfectly free from worms and very little scab. And I remember with pleasure the social 

 chat we had in your little office at the World's Fair on its merits as a dessert apple, ami I 

 am in great hopes of it l>eing reinstated to its well-known high place among dessert apples 

 through proper spraying. Wishing you a merry Christmas and happy Xew Year. 



W. Warnock, Gwlerich. 



We sincerely re-echo the wish of our correspondent concerning this excel- 

 lent apple, which is unsurpassed for dessert purposes, and would be a source of 



