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rants falling badly at present ; raspberries promise great things, but if drought continues 

 much longer, will suffer ; but where cultivation has been attended to, they will stand a 

 pretty hard racket of drought. Strawberries in hills permit closer cultivation and stand 

 drought better than matted rows. Gooseberries suffered most from May frost : they came 

 out in spring without the loss of a twig and bloomed most profusely ; even the nursery 

 rows taken from the mounds this spring were a mass of bloom, but only 30 % of a full crop 

 survived the frost, and this fruit is altogether in the centre of the bushes. Neglect to 

 prune had a reward for once. Many of the one-year bushes received for " Experimental 

 Advt.," were poorly rooted. The severe drought of \aat summer was not favorable for 

 layering, and quite a few have died in spite of all the petting I could give, even to water- 

 ing. Two-year old plants are growing rapidly. So far. Red Jacket seems to have the 

 lead, it is immensely vigorous ; Chautauqua and Queen good second. No sign of mildew 

 to this date ; both fungicides seem to be equally efficacious. In mounding up my goose- 

 Ijerries last summer, I used nitrate of soda in the hills, with the result that many of the 

 mounds had to be undermined and jarred with the end of a blunt stake to get them apart. 



Mb. T. H. Race, representing Perth and Middlesex, writes : — Reports received justify 

 the conclusion that there is practically no fruit in this district, except late apples. Straw- 

 lierries are no crop, raspberries will amount to nothing, currants not a quarter crop, goose- 

 berries all gone except some of the smaller varieties, cherries only here and there a few on 

 some sheltered tree, and plums and pears nothing. All the summer apples, including the 

 Duchess, have dropped off ; Colverts are showing a few, Talman Sweets a good half crop, 

 and Baldwins, Ribston Pippins, Russets and several other winter varieties are showing 

 very well. The Grimes Golden is a better crop than last year, so is the King ; but alxjut 

 here it is an off-year with the Northern Spy. On the whole, there will lie a good half crop 

 of late fall and winter apples. 



Mk. Wm. Michael, representing York and Ontario, writes : — From what I can learn 

 of the fruit crop in this section, would say winter apples a fair crop, earlier varieties about 

 half a crop, strawberries about half a crop, raspberries a good crop if the dry weather does 

 not continue too long ; plums, pears and cherries light crop ; grapes were all cut down by 

 the frost in May, but have come out again and are fairly well loaded with fruit ; the foliage 

 on fruit trees looks well and healthy. 



Mr VV. S. Turner, representing Stormont, Dundas, Glengary and Prescott, writes : 

 — I should have written you sooner, but could not get replies in time. The fruit prospects 

 are as follows, which you will see does not vary much from my former report : — Apples, 

 varied reports ; in some parts the damage by the heavy frosts were very serious, in fact, 

 almost disastrous ; in other districts, where the trees were apparently spared, the fruit has 

 dropped. In some other parts, the frosts seemed to pass by the orchards, notably, that of 

 Mr. Blacklock's, where the spraying experimental tests are being carried on and conducted 

 b}' our own Mr. Pettit and his staff. Plums a failure, almost total loss ; grapes half a crop, 

 other small fruits with the exception of strawberries one-third of a crop. Strawberries 

 were not far enough advanced to be seriously injured by the frosts, but the dry weather is 

 seriously injuring the crop. 



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Dandelions. 



7 IT. Sir, — How can I get dandelions out of my lawn 7 



A. B. C, Iroquoix. 



We know no better plan, than cutting them out an inch or two below the 

 surface of the ground, a laborious task, it is true. Constant mowings with the 

 lawn mower will keep them under control. 



