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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



Profs. Craig and Fletcher paid a visit last month to the Niagara 

 peninsula, addressing large gatherings of fruit growers on spraying for fungi and 

 insects. Y ox peach ro^SLud leaf curl, the formula recommended by them was 3 lbs. 

 copper sulphate and 3 lbs. lime to 40 gals, of water. Three applications, ist, 

 just after blossoms fall, and the second and third at intervals often days or two 

 weeks. 



For Pear Scab the early spraying was advised as the most important;e 

 indeed, two applications before bloom being of more importance than thre 

 after the bloom falls. 



Currants, at the experimental farm sprayed with Bordeaux mixture for the 

 shot hole fungus, first, about one week after picking the fruit, and afterward 

 twice at an interval of about three weeks, kept growing the whole season. 



Death of Mr. John J. Thomas. — We chronicle with sincere regret the 

 death of that eminent horticulturist and pomolog^st, Mr. John J. Thomas, of 

 Union Springs, N.Y. He is best known to us in Canada as the author of The 

 American Fruit Culturist, a book still more in demand than perhaps any other 

 among Canada fruit growers. Though first published fifty years ago, it has been 

 so often revised that it is still one of the most useful books of its kind. A new 

 edition was almost completed by its author before his death, and will soon be 

 published. 



Mr. Thomas died at his home on the 

 22nd of February last, at the age of eighty- 

 five years. The Garden and Forest says 

 of him : " From his father, who was a 

 naturalist and explorer of distinction, he 

 inherited the power of original research 

 which led him to investigations and ex- 

 periments which have been useful in so 

 many branches of horticulture. Nine 

 volumes of miscellany, entitled Rural 

 Affairs, which are selections from the 

 Country Gentleman, of which he was an 

 associate editor, and another interesting 

 work on Farm Implements and Machin- 

 erj', were prepared by him, and they rank 

 Fio 7o4 -J J 1II0M4S among the most useful manuals for a 



country library. Personally, Mr. Thomas was a man of great simplicity and 

 sincerity of character, combining sturdy integrity with a rare refinement, gentle- 

 ness and unfailing charity. 



Size of Fruit Baskets. — A committee appointed by a fruit growers' 

 meeting in Grimsby last February prepared the following report on sixes of fruit 



